3-of-a-Kind
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Kansas City, MO
Posts: 109
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Over this nice weekend I played quite a few SnG's and one freeroll on UB. I'll start off with my freeroll. I was playing pretty tight for the first 2 hours. I have about 2700 in chips when I'm moved to a table where the shortest stack is about 8000 (I'm at the same table as 2 of the chip leaders). BB is around 400 or 600 so I'm folding pretty much everything except premium hands. In about a half hour I had build my stack up to 17000 which put me in 13th position. I'm in LP and dealt   Two seats to my left is this crazy maniac (was chip leader at one point) who was down to 1000 chips and built his way up to 27000 by bluffs and hittin cards when called. I raise 2xBB (not a big enough raise?) and there's a few other callers. The board is    It's checked around to me and I bet about half my stack, trying to chase out any straight/flush draws. Everyone folds except the maniac. He checks the turn which is a rag and I go all-in (mistake?) He calls and flips over   He flopped the friggin straight. Did I not play this hand aggressive enough pre-flop? I've just started NL tournaments and wanted to know what the norm raise pre-flop would be with pockets 10's.
I did pretty well in the SnG's but one last night kinda bothers me. Last night I had about 3500 in chips, 2nd chip leader had around 2500, 2 remaining players had around 1500 each and the small stack was around 800. I'm dealt AQo in late position, I raise 3xBB, SB calls and BB (which is the lowest stack) goes all-in. He had been doing this the last few hands so I call and the SB calls. Flop is rags, I check, SB checks. Turn rag, check check. River rag, check check. SB turns over AKo, BB has A10o. BB won the hand with a 10 on the flop. After a few more hands I'm dealt   I have about 1500 (a few bad bluffs) in chips and the blinds are about 60. I raise 3xBB and the BB calls. Flop is 2 clubs, BB checks, I bet 500 he calls. Turn is a 4, which pairs with a 4 on the flop. He goes all-in and I call. River is another 4. He flips over 24o  He made 4 of a kind. I thought 3xBB would scare out any retard playing 24o in UB but I guess I was wrong. At PP I know someone would call that kinda bet, but at UB I was just kinda shocked. If someone could tell me how I played these hands and how my bets size up that'd be great. I'd post hand history, but UB hand history sucks.
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