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I'm not trying to offend you or get into a flame war, but honestly if you can't beat the game online, what makes you think you'll have better luck playing live? Are your reading abilities really that good, or is it time for a new hobby?

Though I finished well, I'm still very upset at myself for the way I went out. I hadn't had any kind of a hand for 2-3 orbits and had been blinded/anted down from 110k to about 68k. Blinds were high enough it was pretty much push/fold time for everybody at my table. Instead of waiting for first-in equity, I called after a small stack pushed, and a stack slightly larger than mine moved all in behind him. I had KJ off, which is terrible but was by far the best hand I'd seen in an hour. I thought I might be ok when my two opponents turned over K10 and 55, especially when a king flopped. Unf

I finished 63rd for a payout of about 1500 (sn: Lyinfish). I was at pittrounders' table for a while = he was very lucky. My best finish in one of these multithousand-player MTT's in a while.

In my experience, I agree with your 80/20 assessment as above.Conclusion: I pushed all in after the reraise, BB called w/QQ, no Ace came to save me. In this particular instance, I suppose it really didn't matter whether I had limped, raised as I did, or pushed preflop given the hand the BB had.

I was actually thinking about this last night before heading to sleep. The short answer is no. While you are giving the blinds better odds to call, you will presumably benefit from their calling, since you probably have a better hand and position on them anyway, which is sufficient to overcome the slightly more favorable odds that they are getting. More important than that for me is the better odds you are getting on steals...before antes you are investing 3bb to gain 1.5bb, where as now you are investing 3bb to gain approx 2.5bb, making stealing much more profitable.I wonder if it is a wash,

therrin wrote:"As to why I kind of like the limp, there's quite a few reasons, including some meta-hand motivations. 1) If I raise, I might have to call a reraise all in because I have a decent hand and there's a good probability that someone is just trying to snipe off a steal attempt. If I fold, there goes a large portion of my stack. 2) If I limp, the chances I get reraised are quite small. People are very wary of button limps, as they are often very big hands. Much more likely than getting reraised, I'll get to see a cheap flop with a good drawing hand in position. 3) If I do get reraised,

Thanks for the feedback. I suppose open pushing is the right move here, though as I stated previously, it makes me uncomfortable in this particular instance only because a large percentage of the hands that would call you have you dominated. I dislike limping here as well. By not putting any pressure on, you're inviting one of the blinds to stick in a raise preflop and take the pot, or to check raise you when a ragged flop hits. In short, you're likely to face even more tough decisions later in the hand after limping.One reason my M is in the push/fold zone in this hand is b/c of the effec

Not to nitpick, but since this is a close call situation. . . I don't think you should count the aces as 3 full outs, since the villian could easily have AK or even AA/KK the way he's played it so far. Maybe 1 - 1.5 outs?

Thanks for the response. You certainly may be right about the intial bet. I definitely thought of open-pushing, but when I considered pushing 35k into the pot w/blinds of 1500/3000, I assumed, like with all overbets, I'm only getting called by hands that beat me. With the 9k bet, I figured even if the SB or BB called I'd have position and a good chance to take down the pot, or if I missed and they bet out I could get away from the hand. It was the unexpected min-reraise that was hard to interpret.

Situation from last night's stars 45K NLHE tourney:180 players left in tourney, chip leader 200K chips, average 45k, my stack is 35k, blinds 1500/3000 with 100 ante (starting pot 5400).I've open-raised from button/CO with average+ hands about half the time. BB has played tight, hasn't showed down any hands since I moved to this table. BB has about 45K stack.Folded to me on the button with Ah10c. I raise to 9000. Sb folds, BB min-reraises to 15k.At this point, your play is:A. Push, since you'll then have fold equity if he's making a weak resteal attempt and since you are shortstacked and m

Good luck trying to get Ivey, DN, and other top pros to play if there's no money involved. . .although I guess the gold medal might be worth something on ebay.

Congrats. I'm bitter b/c I was in position to win the 35K MTT on PP last night (with a pool of 64K actual prize money), second in chips with two tables left, lose 3 straight race/coinflips in about 10 hands and I'm out in 14th place (out of 643) for a win of around 600, first place 14K Lost w/99 to AQ, with AhQh to JJ, and finally with A,9 to 44.

You should put that guy on your buddy list.Similar thing happened to me last night - after flopping a set of dueces on a board of 2c 6d 8h, I get my money all in against a guy holding pocket 10's, the turn and riv are the 9 and 7 to give him runner runner straight.At least my villian's call was reasonable though I guess.

Worse than 'ty' in a situation like the OP described, in my book, is when some donkey prick types 'oops' :evil: Takes all my zen jedi mind melding technique to not tilt after that one.

yeah, i'll give them credit, it seems they resolved it in the most fair way possible. sorry you're not getting your money back Hold_em, but if you busted out before the tourney crashed I can't see why you would

Yeah, if anyone's interested for future reference, here's how they settled it up:Due to unforeseen circumstances we were forced to cancel tournament "Million Dollar Guaranteed". We do apologize for the cancellation and have added [$50 extra into your account] because of the inconvenience. At the time of cancellation, players were awarded prize money corresponding to the rank to be awarded to the next eliminated player. Following this 50% of the remaining prize pool has been divided equally and 50% has been divided based on the chip count of each remaining player. $1,003.45 have been added into

yeah, just checked my account and it has about $1000 dollars more in it than before the tourney, so I guess they paid those that were still in a refund plus divided the remaining prize pool. oh well, can't complain too much since I qualified via a $30 buy-in supersat. :?

well it's been like 2 hours and the tourney is still "paused" Gotta believe they will just cancel it at this point

i won a satellite to enter this tourney - if they do refunds, they better give me the (at least) full $640. actually since my chip stack is average and a quarter of the field is out, I agree with Zimm, I should get more :-)

It's really not going to be fair whatever they decide to do. What if you were the chipleader in this tourney by a mile, and they decide to cancel the tourney and just refund the buy-ins?

played about 20 hands, caught aces and made a set with jacks, got my stack up to 2350. now the whole tourney's paused again, they keep putting out messages in the chat - 'sorry for tech difficuties' B.S. Supposed to restart in about 15 min now they're saying.

PP SUCKS!My table, #134, has been frozen for all the players at the table, since 12 minutes after the tourney started. We've all been calling and sending angry emails with little response, other than they're working on it. Now, they've paused the entire tourney b/c of 'technical difficuties'This blows

anyone else in this today?I'll post once I make it to the final table :wink:

TP/MM(somebody was going to say it)BTW, weren't you the guy who a few days ago told us all about the "great reads" you made, calling down to the river with 88 in a cash NLHE game against a board full of overcards and draws?

Since it seems like such a weak call on the surface, it might've been that he was pretty shortstacked as some suggest. The only other rationale I can come up with is he read Gavin as semi-bluffing. Dn seems to have great confidence in his reads and plays 'by feel' a lot, so maybe he read Gavin as bluffing with nothing but a flush draw, or something like middle pair with a flush draw, when he called the all-in.