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6spark6

03-05-2010, 06:56 PM Post subject: BnM 60 seat tourney (how loose is too loose?)

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So Wednesday night I participated in a $250 freeroll that I was qualified for due to my winning a weekly $50 freeroll earlier this month (with significantly fewer entrants). There were approximately 60 people there (10 ppl to a table, six tables), and for the first hour or two I was pretty tight...Only raised with premium holdings or in position and folded if I missed.

When we got to the final table the average stack is probably 30k and I was sitting at about 45k. The largest stack @ 65k (and probably most dangerous player at the table based on prior play with him) was sitting opposite me. 3 hands go by as I pick up and muck junk. Then, as I'm UTG+3, I pick up AQ suited. I decide that I will raise to 4x BB and see what happens. However the tightest player at the table is sitting to my right as UTG+2 and decides to shove after 2 folds prior to him. I put him on AQs+ or Pocket 10's+. He has about 30k and if I call and miss it will absolutely cripple me as the blinds are at 3k/6k.

There are still 6 people to act behind me, and I am pretty sure that even if I shove over the top the "dangerous" player will call as well if he has anything in the range of suited connectors 7,8+ just because if he knocks us both out, he can use his stack to dominate the table. He's not the most patient player, but he shows up at the final tables a lot. Knowing his style, I was wary.

Should I just shove over the top here and hope for luck? We're only 3 or 4 hands into the final table of 10 and only the top 3 spots pay.

As it worked out, I hesistated and then folded.

The rest of the tourney, I called a few times and missed every time until there were 5 of us left and we had been chipped up so far that the largest stack was 14 total chips, with 1/2 being the blinds (they were 10k chips) and pushed with 40k and K5 suited vs villains 78 suited, and he hit his 7 on the river to win, knocking me out 5th.

Did I play this wrong? Should I be going balls to the wall earlier in an attempt to get a larger stack and control the tempo of the table?

Since it only paid out to the top 3 spots I figured everyone else would knock each other out, and I have faith in my 3-up/hu skill enough to win at that point, even at a severe chip dis-advantage.

It didn't quite happen that way, and it turned out to be a war of attrition, with lots of open-shoves and few calls (when I did get anything decent no one wanted to call me).

The blind structure was extremely aggressive toward the end of the tourney as well, going up every 10, 8, 6, and 4 minutes respectively. So in the last 30 minutes or so the blinds quadrupled. I think the button was raced around maybe twice in that span.

Should I splash around more? Or did I play this right and get unlucky? Thoughts, strategy, advice, and criticism are all appreciated.

Thanks,
Sparks

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drmcboy

03-05-2010, 09:31 PM

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read HOH 1/2, you are missing basic pot odds concepts.

you should mostly be open shoving with < 10 BBs and every time you called and folded was probably a mistake.

re the hand as played, it's a super snap call.

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