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$1.10 $100 GTD R/A Final Table Flop Straight
So, as I've mentioned before during my brief time on these forums - I'm pretty new to the game. I started playing on June 25th. I've played both cash games and tournaments but found a lot of early success in tournaments. DONs, 10 and 6 man SNG's, and 25-300 man MTT's. I haven't won an MTT yet but I keep placing between 2nd and 6th.
In this tournament again this morning here, I played some of my best poker yet and found myself at the final table again. I had previously been leading in chips before two guys donked off their stacks to the new chip leader with absolute garbage out of desperation at the bubble. Before I knew it, with the blinds getting huge, I was down to 3rd place and in jeopardy of falling behind fast. On this flop here, I wanted to check out in front to induce action behind me as instead of a few thousand chips, I wanted a whole stack. 1st place paid $46.44 and 6th place paid $7.74. When the turn came down with another heart 1) I didn't think anyone was holding a four flush on the flop or they would have raised it. I was wrong. 2) I didn't want to check my straight again and I realized this might be my last shot at the big money. I also realized that since most likely nobody had the hearts, I would be representing the hearts and find myself in the same spot as I would have on the flop - taking down a moderate sized pot.
How do I handle this spot in the future - Just shove flop, right? And please excuse the lack of conversion in the hand history. I have spent hours looking for a BetOnline converter and I have been completely unsuccessful in my attempts.
BetOnline Poker Game #1333958993: Tournament #5566711: Hold'em $400.00/$800.00 - 2014/09/04 10:32:06 Eastern Daylight Time
Table '5566711-1' 10-Max, Seat #4 is the button
Seat 8: straitAces (32348.91 in chips) - Big Blind
Seat 7: BiggSlikk9 (30444.62 in chips) - Small Blind
Seat 4: rivits (23086.34 in chips) - The button
Seat 2: whifflee (49430.00 in chips)
Seat 0: UBOB (133690.12 in chips)
BiggSlikk9: posts small blind 3000.00
straitAces: posts big blind 6000.00
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BiggSlikk9 [10s Qc]
UBOB: folds
whifflee: calls 6000.00
rivits: folds
BiggSlikk9: calls 3000.00
straitAces: checks
*** FLOP *** [Jh 9h Kc]
BiggSlikk9: checks
straitAces: checks
whifflee: checks
*** TURN *** [Jh 9h Kc][10h]
BiggSlikk9: bets 24444.62
straitAces: calls 24444.62
whifflee: folds
*** SHOW DOWN ***
straitAces shows Ah 4h
BiggSlikk9 shows 10s Qc
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 66889.24
Board [Jh 9h Kc 10h 4s]
Seat 8: straitAces showed [Ah 4h] and won (66889.24)
Seat 7: BiggSlikk9 showed [10s Qc] but did not win
Seat 4: rivits folded before Flop
Seat 2: whifflee folded on the Turn
Seat 0: UBOB folded before Flop
I wound up coming in 5th and winning $10.32...
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