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Humphrind

06-04-2004, 08:10 PM Post subject: My best live tournament finish yet.

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I went to one of these no limit bar tournaments last night. I have been going to quite a few of them. There were about 100-120 people there of varying skill. I placed 7th. This is my best finish yet.

I want to ask opinions on this hand. I made a scared bet and I think I may have been able to play it better.

Raised pre-flop with pocket 9s. Q-9-6 came down, all spades. I raised about triple the pot. I had to get any flush draws out of there. Sure enough, the 2 people who were still in this hand both folded and both admited that they had 1 medium spade, but it was not worth the bet. I find it tough to think that I played this wrong. But I also think that I could have made more money here.

A little later I was delt pocket Qs, I raised pre-flop. The flop came T-7-2. I raise, 1 caller. The turn brough a 5. I checked so I could find the strength of my opponent. He went all in. The reason I was proud of this hand is because I looked at the community and tried to figure out what he had. He wouldn't have called a pre-flop raise with T-7 or T-2, 5-7, 5-2 anything like that. I decided that he must have top pair, over kicker. I called. Sure enough, he flipped his K-T and I ended up taking the hand. I was proud how I analyzed the community and made the call.

Another hand, just for excitement value. Pretty big pre-flop raise. 2 players (I wasn't in this hand) Flop came K-K-8. Both players went all-in. One flipped over his poket 8s, the other his K-Q. The turn came 8 and it should have been over. But the river brought another king. quad kings beat quad 8s. It was one of the best hands I've ever seen.

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fishstick

06-04-2004, 08:27 PM

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Join Date: Mar 2004

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hand 1

well played IMO. play it less hard, and you take a big chance on getting your set flushed, especially with 3 spades already on the board. i don't know how you could have made more money without really risking getting beaten by the flush.

hand 2

good analysis, and also well played.

hand 3

wow!

johnnyawe

06-04-2004, 09:16 PM

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Join Date: Apr 2004

Location: San Francisco

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Hand 1:

Well played. You had no choice but to take the pot down right there. You bet enough so that the only way somone would call or re-raise is if they had flopped the flush. Anything less and you risk losing to the flush on the turn or river. Anything more and you're putting too much of your stack at risk to the flopped flush possibility. Sometimes you have to accept a mediocre pot even if you have great cards.

Hand 2:

Well played.

Hand 3:

Cool hand.

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