Posted Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:01 pm GMT by efram
This is something that happened to me last night in a 3 table live tourney.
I was getting crap cards from the get go. Bluffed one pot, stole the blinds twice and managed to last until we were down to 2 tables, and my chip stack was exactly where it was when we started, 5K. Not bad if you ask me for not getting any cards.
THen I got lucky on an all in 88 vs KK when the board straigted me. Doubled up, and took another pot down on a bluff with 10,9 off, when the board came, 6,8,9 and I got the only other person in the hand off his K9 with a raise/re-raise/allin. He put me on a straight and folded.
At this point, the best hands I'd seen were 66 which I folded to raise pre-flop.
A8s twice, stole the blinds both times with it.
88, got donk lucky
and my 109 semi-bluff.
I was actually doing ok here, with 6 people left on both tables. Still, I hadn't seen a strong hand up to this point and when I got AJo I was blinded by it, which I term the 'Silent Tilt'.
I forgot how to play poker in my excitement. To me, after an hour and a half of poker, this hand seemed like AA. I'm UTG +2, folds 2 me, I raise, messed up, string bet and was only able to call the BB, 3k. Folds to BIG stack on the button, he raises me 2k more, folds to me and I call.
I did not think here, did not try to figure what he had. I was tilted and didn't realize it. Flop comes J72 and Im hearing sirens go off in my head. This was the first time I had a good flop with a good kicker. My best hand besides the lucky 88 vs KK str8 I pulled. Of course I bet, and no sooner than button/big stack puts me all in. Without a second to think I call. He flips over AA, I don't improve and I'm out, jes like that.
Thinking after the fact it should have been easy to get away from TPTK this hand, if even folding to the re-raise pre-flop but I was blinded by the drought of good cards I'd been on. Clearly had I thought, re-raise pre-flop = QQ, KK or AA, I've shown strength and he is showing more.
JJ aren't good here. Easy lay down, and I have enough chips to continue on and who knows what happens. Instead, I'm out, because I let the lack of good hands tilt me without realizing it. This was a GREAT lesson for myself. A mistake I will learn from and hopefully not repeat.
Anyone else ever catch themself doing something in this fashion? This was a lesson I had to learn the hard way and I did. Fortuneatly it was only a $30 buyin so no big loss. Just wanted to put this out there to help others avoid this mistake. /list /code
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Posted Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:35 am GMT by MrDarling
I doing this all the time - its one of my well known weakness .
Often , if I get a decent hand (TPTK , two pairs) I don't stop to think what other people in the hand have. I usually blindly assume they try to bluff me out of my hand and I almost always pay to see their much better hand.
When I look at hand like that from outside, its very easy for me to see what hands their were holding from their play. But during the action (online) I don't even stop a sec to consider that.
Cost me big chunk of my BR and confidence
Posted Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:39 am GMT by Sean_in_NJ
I played on silent tilt tonight, but only because my chat was disabled.
Posted Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:41 am GMT by Johny
| Sean_in_NJ wrote: | | I played on silent tilt tonight, but only because my chat was disabled. |
Again?
Posted Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:46 am GMT by Sean_in_NJ
| Johny wrote: | | Sean_in_NJ wrote: | | I played on silent tilt tonight, but only because my chat was disabled. |
Again? |
I haven't got it back. I'm afraid to ask.
Posted Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:08 am GMT by tame_deuces
Yeah, I know this one. I think it can hit pretty hard live...I'm not the most macho of multitablers, but I can hold my own so when online not much time flies by without a good hand/opportunity somewhere. So I get a little impatient when playing live and when I'm I'm card dead anything with paint will look like a monster after a while. It can be much harder to fold a good hand too.
But you get used to it pretty quickly.
Posted Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:50 pm GMT by jimmer
It's one of those things that separate the average players from the good ones.
I mean i find my concentration drops after about 3 hours. I then end up getting knocked out with really weak/bad plays. Sometimes this involves good cards played bad, other times it involves rubbish hands, which i think are good. Of course, i don't realise this at the time, but when i look back at my hand history I think; 'man, what the hell was i thinking!!!'.
You say you learnt this lesson the hard way? I don't think you did. It's just another lesson WE ALL need to learn on the long, twisting, uphill, bumpy road we call poker.
The fact that you've acknowledged this, means you're further down the road than before you played the hand.
Posted Fri Jul 21, 2006 6:47 pm GMT by efram
| Quote: | | The fact that you've acknowledged this, means you're further down the road than before you played the hand. |
Very true.
I've thought about this particular hand alot since it happened and to me, after the fact, its so obvious a fold its crazy.
He re-raised my raise pre-flop, and put me allin on the flop for my tournement life. I had TPTK.
His play screams QQ, KK or AA.
I may as well have been able to see his cards.
I was so blinded by the history of hands for that tourney, I didn't even begin to think about playing poker. I was playing my cards and got burnt.
If someone puts me all in for my tournement life, I hope I can take time and analyze the situation EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I tend to be an impulsive type of person which does not bode well for poker. Learning to control this, but man, sometimes it still bytes me.
I think posting about it will help keep it in the fore front of my mind.
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