Naismith

I think my favorite part was you calling with QT and then reacting in disbelief that the other guy called with Q9.You river bet with the aces was idiotic as he was clearly chasing the flush. If he had anything else...the case ace or two pair...you would've been re-raised earlier. The check-raise on the end was just a case of him out-playing you. He knew you'd continue to bet even though he hit the flush. Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and then do the opposite.Also, no one ever has the right to berate anyone else, I don't care the situation. Everyone plays poker for different rea

I was in a tournament today, sitting on 2300 chips with blinds of 100-200. I'm the big blind (leaving me 2100 chips). About 35 people of 120 left. Under the gun makes it 400 and gets three callers, none of whom are good players. UTG and the second caller both overplay AX.There's 1900 in the pot to me when I squeeze out queens. UTG has me covered. No one else does. I ended up pushing all in trying to take it down right there and received two callers...AA and KK (which I had never seen before, actually). The flop came out J-6-2.My thought was I was probably going up against a couple of high aces

I'd call it in a cash game for the simple reason that you're going to triple up roughly half the time and you can reload if all your chips are gone. In a tournament, I'd probably lay it down unless I felt I was outmatched at the table.Peace,Jay

A concept that I've recently started to grasp (although I heard Raymer disagree with it):If you're confident in your abilities, you fold while slightly ahead (like in this situation) because you'll eventually have a better go of it.If you're not, you play in this situation taking better than a coin flip shot at getting rid of a couple people and doubling up.In any case, I'm going to have to agree with the majority on this one. You have to fold here. As for cold reading people online this early in a game, which really comes down to general moves people make as opposed to specific reads, my take

Thank you for the replies (and sorry to Smash for not including the link).I've been considering not doing the turbos anymore. I'm okay with being all in, but mostly because my experience in tournament poker is the above. I've not played other formats though would love to play a slow moving, big starting stack tourney.Thanks for the help, though.Peace,Jay

The place where I play has two different tournament structures:A regular 120 person tournament where you start with 700 chips and the blinds start at 10-15, going up every 20 minutes.A turbo tournament, between 30-50 people, starting with 500 chips with the blinds starting at 10-15 and going up every ten minutes.I've had some success, although not much lately. I went on a good run when I locked down and played extremely tight poker. Is that just a necessity with such small stacks from the start?I'd love to hear some strategy suggestions. Most of the players in these things are pretty bad.Peace

First post here.It seems to me that you didn't really post looking for a critique of your play, but rather for people to tell you that you played it well.In my opinion, if you trust your read and are certain the check is coming on the turn (as you said), you need to make the re-raise after the flop. After all, what are you just calling there for if you're not hoping to get more chips out of him? You know he's checking on the turn, so in essence you're just giving him a free card for no benefit on your end.You have your read on him, take your pot. K4 is too delicate to allow free cards. If you