Stars massive field, ITM, evaluate my exit please.

supair · #1 07-02-2007, 07:06 AM

Hi Guys,

Would just like to go over the 3 key hands that led to me going busto last night, I think its fairly standard, but Im just questioning the need to find spots to resteal when your crushing the table anyway with openeing raises with ATC and C/betting. I suppose its just a willingness to be really aggressive and to put the stack Ive built up through good play to good use. Obviously i dont wanna be results oriented, I just want to be analytical about the key hands in my tourneys and see if i can learn a little.

We are ITM, but the good stuff is top 10, so Im playing to win. Started with 2200 runners and were down to 150ish?Table is very tight, I am basically picking a couple of nitty blinds a round and minraising ATC and generally taking it there, if not with a c/bet post flop. Ive showndown NOTHING and if I have its been less than premium, so theyve got me pegged as very aggressive.
Taking into consideration table image, stack and blind sizes, where did we go wrong with hand 1, if at all? Hand 2 is a standard resteal i think? and hand 3 i dont think i even need to post its that standard, but i thought id finish the trilogy. I wont post individual villain styles as theyre all tight tight tight. And passive.

thanks guys.

Hand 1

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t800, Ante is t50(9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

UTG (t8290)
UTG+1 (t8255)
MP1 (t4095)
MP2 (t13107)
MP3 (t14800)
CO (t15172)
Button (t992)
SB (t11040)
Hero (t34673)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
4 folds, MP3 calls t800, 3 folds, Hero raises to t2400, MP3 calls t1600.

Flop: (t5200) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero bets t3200, MP3 raises to t12350, Hero calls t9150.

Turn: (t29900) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)

River: (t29900) A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)

Final Pot: t29900

Hand 2

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1200, Ante is t75 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

Button (t45920)
SB (t5105)
BB (t3795)
UTG (t9957)
UTG+1 (t39040)
MP1 (t12622)
MP2 (t15366)
MP3 (t24305)
Hero (t20714)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG raises to t2400, 4 folds, Hero raises to t20639, 3 folds, UTG calls t7482 (All-In).

Flop: (t31046) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t31046) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t31046) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: t31046

Hand 3

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1200, Ante is t75 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

MP3 (t45770)
CO (t4355)
Button (t1845)
SB (t20964)
BB (t38890)
UTG (t12472)
UTG+1 (t17691)
MP1 (t24155)
Hero (t10682)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
3 folds, Hero raises to t10607, 4 folds, BB calls t9407.

Flop: (t20614) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)

Turn: (t20614) A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)

River: (t20614) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)

Final Pot: t20614