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Darby
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10-22-2004, 05:52 AM
Post subject: Once again, not sure I made the right play on the bubble...
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Straight
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 209
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Party Poker 3 table SnG (30 players) - at the final table, down to 6. Top 5 make the money, it was only 5+1, but still. All the stacks are relatively similar, withing about 1000 chips. Blinds 150/300. I have 4200. Get dealt KK in the small blind. Raise to 1000. Big blind comes over the top of me for 2500. I reraise all in, and he shows the aces. BAM! I bust out 6th and miss the money.
Thinking back on it, I'm not sure what the right play was. My thinking at the time was, that he thought I was making a play on his blind or something. I also think it may have been stupid to risk my entire stack on the bubble like that. However, KK is the second best possible hand, so to lay that down 6 handed in the final table of a tournament is nearly impossible. I cant see any pro (maybe Hellmuth, just for camera time) laying down KK, especially in this situation. It may have been dumb to not protect my stack, but if I double up Im sitting pretty. Thoughts? Feelings?
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Humphrind
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 1,887
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I'd make the same play 8 days a week.
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I don't know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway.
Whatever it is...
I'm against it.
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TylerK
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME
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I'm nowhere near as skilled as most of the people on this site, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but...I would have done exactly what you did in that situation. No way I wouldn't have pushed all in. Finishing in the money is fine, but if I get a golden opportunity like that, I'm taking it.
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Darby
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Straight
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 209
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thats what I figured, it just was a horrible way to get knocked out, especially after 1.5 hours and being just one spot out of the money.
oh well I guess thats poker...
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bigred
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PROFESSIONAL TROLL
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Nest of Douchebags
Posts: 2,184
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I was playing in a 2300 entrant MTT $3 buyin the other week and made it to the final table and then down to a final 6. I was dealt AA and preflop raised. I was currently in thrid. The 1st place stack reraised me to where I'd be all-in and I called. He flips his cards over, A7s. I can see someone making that call if I held a small percentage of his stack, but I had about 65% of his stack. Flop comes, 3 goddammned clubs, I lose. That is just horrible luck.
Not sure how this really helps you, but I had to vent this to someone. I guess the moral is that bad beats and bad luck happens to us all.
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mike4066
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 1,943
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You played it right..
The exact same thing happend to me in a 50k tourney last week.
1st wins $12,500
50th place wins $300
We both have pretty big stacks, and if I double up now I'm a contender for first and shouldn't have ANY problems making the final table.
He raises I re-raise all-in.
I have KK , he has AA.. I'm out in 52nd place., and he proceeds to waste my chips and go out in like 45th place 
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