Posted Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:04 pm GMT by krakajak
I played in Saturday's tourney. I finished 12th out of 19, which is about how I expected, considering most of the posters on this forum seem to know a lot more about the game than I do.
Anyway, I thought I played pretty well for the most part, except for two hands, which in NL is all it takes to wipe out your stack. Anyway, I hope some of you will give me some feed-back on these 2 hands.
I started off pretty well, and had almost doubled my stack by the time the blinds were $50. Around this time I get a pair of Jacks, and raise to around 200. Someone else re-raises it to around 400, which took about half of his stack. Now I know myself, and unless a Jack flopped, I would be liable to getting bullied out of the pot. So calling was not an option. I either had to fold or put him all in. I decided to put him all in, he had aces and beat me.
What should I have done?
The second hand was when the blinds were up to $100. I had about $600 left, and got 44. I thought about trying to buy the blinds, but the big blind was the one who just won most of my stack, so he was a lot stronger than me, and I don't like trying to steal binds from big stacks, so I called. It was me against BB, head up. The flop came 8, 8, something else, BB checked to me. I didn't know what he had, but since there were only 2 8's in the deck, i figured the odds were against him having one of those. I figured I had the best hand at the time, and I wanted the pot right then. BB had to know I didn't have an 8, or I wouldn't have called, but he also had to know I didn't have a great hand, because I didn't raise. How much would it take to scare him out of the pot? a single bet surely wouldn't work. A pot-sized bet might work, but if he had an A he might call that, figuring I was trying to steal. I decided the best move was to throw down my whole stack. Well, it turned out he did in fact have an 8, and that was the end of me.
How should I have played my 4's pre-flop? I was in mid-position, and the table was 6 handed.
Also, was trying to buy the pot a bad move? If not, would it have been wiser to risk less?
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