Playing aggressively with a large stack |
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Posted Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:31 am GMT by jimmer
Sorry the post is so long, but it is all relevant to the story. I would really appreciate your thoughts-especially you guys who regularly play MTT's.
I'm sat in a 180 seater $4.40 sng. For the first 45 minutes, I hardly play a hand. Then within two hands I increase my stack from $1k to $5.5k and then get moved to another table. The player sat to my right has $7k, everyone else has between $4k and $0.9K.
Over the following 45 minutes I hit the table hard raising quite often preflop. On two occasions i raise with nothing and get called. On both occasions i hit two-pair on the flop and call the other players all-ins. When the cards are flipped over, I obviously get abuse in the chat box. I build my stack to $12k (1h 30 minutes played 55 players left, chip leader has $16k, I'm 4th)
I then get moved to another table with a few players from the last table. I loose a few hands early on and then get this hand;
PokerStars Game #21078568320: Tournament #113291873, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2008/10/10 10:32:56 ET
Table '113291873 9' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: rick1051965 (8042 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: PRoEPoker (6915 in chips)
Seat 3: gsknyk (6225 in chips)
Seat 4: jbdb3 (10368 in chips)
Seat 5: gajdy1982 (4117 in chips)
Seat 6: berghuizen (6984 in chips)
Seat 7: chbu007 (8552 in chips)
Seat 8: saavangie (4880 in chips)
Seat 9: thehammer111 (7090 in chips)
gsknyk: posts small blind 100
jbdb3: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jbdb3  
gajdy1982: folds
berghuizen: folds
chbu007: folds
saavangie: folds
thehammer111: folds
rick1051965: folds
PRoEPoker: raises 400 to 600
gsknyk: folds
jbdb3: raises 1600 to 2200
rick1051965 has returned
PRoEPoker: calls 1600
*** FLOP ***   
jbdb3: checks
PRoEPoker: checks
*** TURN *** 
jbdb3: bets 1600
PRoEPoker: raises 3115 to 4715 and is all-in
jbdb3: calls 3115
*** RIVER *** 
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jbdb3: shows (two pair, Aces and Threes)
PRoEPoker: shows   (two pair, Aces and Nines)
PRoEPoker collected 13930 from pot
Now, ProEpoker afterwards admitted he only called my preflop re-raise because I had been playing so loose and aggressive. (That's fine, I can accept that. Indeed that's just what I wanted him to think when I'm holding AK!).
However, I then drop to $3k and am suddenly holding on for my life. I sit tight for around 3 rounds and don't play a hand. (Luckily everyone folds around to me a few times when I'm in the-BB which helped), but then over the next 30 minutes (and with an M of between 4.5 and 6 I raise all-in preflop with AJ, QJ and T9 suited. On all three occasions, at least 2 of the other players write comments like "Bluffing again" and "If you wanted to enter a lottery buy a lotto ticket" etc etc. (btw-despite the comments, I never got any callers!)
So, although my game totally tightened up when I was short stacked, the other players around the table still perceived me as a manic.
So although I built my stack to $12k by playing very aggressive in the middle stages, it looks like it had a negitive effect after I took that bad beat.
The question I have is this; Did I play too aggressive too soon. After all, it looks like I've drawn so much attention to myself it kinda back fired.
(Incidentally, I finished 26th which is my highest tourney finish ever! I know it means nothing when I'm not in the money, but I'm still happy with that).
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