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Can you explain how you feel that my opinion is indicative of tilting. For the hand, it really didn't take me very long to make the decision to shove. And as I hoped, UTG called and the other two folded. UTG had QQ and the other shorty had an A. I know this because he voiced his disgust when an A hit the flop. Most of you guys may disagree, but I thought this was a thought provoking hand. Not from my standpoint but from the two players between me and UTG. I'm typing this up not presuming to give any of you guys a lesson but to reinforce the idea in my own game. Playing with a shorty, p

I think you keep doing what you are doing as far as searching for solutions. Reading these sites. Books. Audiobooks. Videos. If you are playing good but having a bad run you may just need to hit the reset button. One of the things that I do is I keep two accounts going. Most folks probably keep more than that but I just use two. I use one account to try to make money. I use the other account for steaming and experimenting. I believe that most of variance is self inflicted. We have a few hands that go bad and they stick with us and we try to force hands and administer some bad beats o

My thinking was, if I shove here, UTG(One of the two big stacks at the table) will call. But because he has enough chips to bust the other two players as well and still be healthy, that might get the other two players to fold and I would be heads up. To me, it was extremely weak for the other two to call a min raise at this stage. What could they have that they couldn't raise with but could get all in with. Again, if this was on the internet, I could see that happening. But not here.

This is a live tourney that I really like. It's no rebuy and usually draws 60-80 people. I have played this tourney 6 times and finished in the money 4 times, winning it once. 20 minute blinds take away from solid in the middle rounds and forces you to make some fairly risky plays. I've been the musical chairs guy and have been moved three times between two tables. It was weird. The man on my left is an older man that is not real creative with his play. But he is solid. At the beginning the tourney we started out with him on my left. I've only seen him one showdown where he raised 4x

I'm not a big proponent of shoving with these hands. But this may be the prime spot for shoving. I almost feel that this is push/fold. If the CO really had a monster right now, you'd have to think he would at least raise. He's called because his ego is in gear and so that he will have an escape route if he doesn't hit big.

I am starting to think more along these lines. There are so many pots that have at least 5 or 6 limpers in them. Especially early. I think the idea is even supported in limping from early position with these cards and being willing to call a small raise. Honestly, I'm not as big of a proponent of limping with 56s as I am of 79o. When you have got suited cards, you will chase a flush a lot more than you will a straight. Everybody does. Now, IMO, the same does not hold true for SNG's. About the only unsuited connectors that I will play is from the T up. And that is only from late positi

I don't think it is stupid at all. I think the absolute best way to play poker is within your financial means. Whether you are on their level skill wise or not, you still have to have some luck to win at this game. To me, it's a matter of what you do with the money that you win. I keep my poker money separate from my household money. I make a bit over 100K a year. But none of that money goes into poker. And I play small stakes poker. The most that I have paid for a buy in in a little over three years of playing is $220.00. And that was money that I had won at the tables. Part of what

Thanks for the thoughts. As has been the case for me in the past, I got a little full of myself last weekend and promptly lost about $40 out of my FT account and $20 out of my UB account. I just wasn't playing good and knew it. I was playing $5x18 sng's on FT and some MTT's on UB. I stepped back for a couple of days and just played 1 five dollar sng on tilt last night. I got second in it and I feel that my play is back on track. I think I am going to move to the $10 SNG's on UB and see if I can grind that level. If I drop back to $450 in my acct, I will probably go back to the $6 tourni

I consider myself, mostly a recreational player that loves the competition that poker provides. I like the money of the game when I am winning but mostly I like the opportunity that the game affords me to exercise my competitive nature. I'm a small stakes player that wants to stretch my limits.About three years ago, I put $25 on UB. I played mostly $1sng's and a little bit of .02/.04 cash. At one point I had $1.11 in my account and put it on a sng. I won that and kept grinding. I got my roll up to about $30 and started playing a $1 mtt just about every evening. One Friday evening I won

"didn't you say UTG tried to raise all in but wasn't allowed to cause the previous all in was too small? By this reasoning you should have folded for the extra 1100 pf."When UTG tried to push, MP+1 was the one that made sure that it wasn't allowed. Which told me he wasn't real proud of his hand. If he would have had a big pckt pr. I don't think he would have said anything. After the flop, I didn't care what MP had. I needed to get a side pot going that I could recoup my losses if she won the main pot. While the discussion was going on about whether or not UTG could reshove, I had decided

UTG checked the flop.Here's my thinking on not shoving this pf. UTG's raise indicates he has a similar hand or better. He has a bigger stack than I do and I really don't want my tourney to end at this point with this hand. I gladly take increasing my stack by 30% if I hit the flop. If someone else raises behind me and then UTG goes all in, I probably fold this, knowing that I am behind and probably have a lot of my outs destroyed right now. If we get a huge pot going, there are a lot of flops that give me a great all in. After UTG's check, I may get to check this down with him and MP+1 a

Starting stacks 4000. Blinds 300/600. The tourney started with about 40 people and we were down to 18. I had just doubled up to about 15K and got moved. The only player that I have information on at the table is MP+1. He is pretty active and seems to be a decent player. I had seen him raise preflop earlier with 79o from the sb after two limpers and win the hand with two pair. So I am UTG+1 with AKs. UTG has about 20K and raises to 1800. I call. MP raises all in for 2900. MP+1 has about 20K and calls. It folds around to UTG who tries to go all in. After some discussion with the flo

How many times would any of us shove with AK in this spot. Everyone of us that has played more than 10 tournaments is CRAI with AK. And that is what we represent with a check.If we shove, it is obvious that the turn scared us and we don't have a straight.

Why is checking such a bad option right now?Isn't this board scary to any hand other than AK? If we check we give ourselves an opportunity to make a read on the player and stay in the tournament. He may not have AK but I don't think he is shoving to a check with two pr. Any hand that he insta shoves with lets us know that our blankety blank Aces got us in trouble. And I think we have a great chance of getting a free card and then making our tournament decision on the river.

A lot of times, early in a live tournament, I will let other players push me around for a relatively insignificant amount of chips in order to make everybody at the table think they can push me off of a hand with a decent bet. While folding hands like middle pair or draws on the turn, I will make some sort of comment about it not being worth that much to call. Or that I "believe" the bettor now. Then of course, when the blinds a little more significant, they still think they can bet me off of a strong hand and the trap is set. It's worked good for me on more than one occasion. Now if I ca

Good thread.+1 for Everyone.

Sometimes.....A lot of times, I will post hands on here in an attempt to help me not the same mistake again. I figure that if I post it on here and get several critiques of the hand, maybe the next the same or similar situation comes up, I won't make the same mistake. I could have gotten away from the hand if I had not made one fatal error.My preflop raise was a chicken raise. I didn't want to get over committed to the pot with the button and blinds still to come. I really felt like at least one of the other two limpers was playing a weak A and the other one probably had a small pair. If

Blinds are 300/600 I have a little over 12K in chips. UTG+1 has about 20K MP has 7K. Both players like to limp for flops and I have pushed both out of a pot with air and a small bet after the flop. Since getting to the table I have only shown down a few of hands one was from the bb when I won with J4o and it checked all the way through. The other was 66 on the button another hand that didn't have a lot of action to it and one with KK when I knocked out a player who pushed with 55. I've been playing pretty much ABC and just being patient. So I get AQo UTG and MP both call the bb. I raise

Playing 1/2 live can be really frustrating. It really is like playing .01/.02 online. Maybe worse. You get a lot of guys that love to play junk and hit. A lot of people talk about people tighter live because it is embarrassing when they lose a big hand. The opposite aspect of that is that when they do hit, they get a minute of euphoria thinking they look brilliant when they hit their 28s for a flush over a set or AA. They pull out bill after bill looking for that big hit. They'll bust out, go to the ATM and bring back a couple hundred more. Some of them have so much money and are sever

According to most statistics that I have seen, I was 48,000/1 to get AA two hands in a row. There's some debate over the exact number but regardless, it's pretty rare. I wonder what the stats would be that I would get those two hands and lose 80% of the chips that I had. It was a perfect storm scenario that I get the table bluffer in the first hand and the short stack in the next. And I had position on both and had both covered in each hand. I hear people say all the time "I hate getting aces." I hear "9T is my favorite hand." AA is still my favorite hand. I'll take it any day over any

I understand that the more that I raise, the fewer people that I have to compete against. But I can't overstate the fact that I wanted to keep the villain in the hand. Keep in mind, I had played for about an hour and a half on $8 because I got no hands that would play. My image was that of a very tight player. If I raise this pot to $15, I really believe that I would have taken down the 8-10 bucks already in the pot. Again, I am trying to learn the right ways to make more money out of my big hands. The last time that I raised to $7.00 with AA, in nearly the same situation, I made $185 fr

My thinking may be flawed but here it is. In these games, raising to 7 doesn't chase players out. It builds the pot and gets you in trouble. One of the weaknesses of my cash game has been not making enough money from my big hands. Usually because I over bet somewhere and push people out. Honestly, I'm not afraid to lose with big hands. I don't get mad when someone gets lucky against me playing cards that they shouldn't be. I have been at the table with the villain from the first hand on several occasions. He is an older man with a ton of money and he loves big pots. He makes very loos

For me, the times that I have tried to play connectors, it usually ends up costing me more than I ever gain. You sometimes win huge pots with them but most of the time they cost you a little bit of money. After watching the main event last year, I started trying to be as clever as Daniel with small cards. It took me a while but I finally figured out that I am not Daniel Negreanu. The thing is, when you are a small/micro stakes player and you lose your small/micro stakes money, it takes a long time to grind it back up.

Start folding them and notice how many times they would have won the hand. Try to note how many times you would have lost money vs. the money you might have won.