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Advice please!!
I was playing in a live tourney recently and got slated by one player after I knocked him out of the tourney (he appologised after for his abuse), a couple of other players also questioned my play, I don't get it, was it that bad?!?
It was a 10,000 chip tourney, blinds are 50/100, so it's early on. I have 12,500 chips and in the small blind I have Ah 8c, it is folded over to me, I raise it up to 400 and the BB who is a very Tight and passive player decides to call, therefore alarm bells went off in my head - his call wasn't great news for me!! The flop comes As 8s 3s, I bet 600 and Villain raises to 2,000, I call, Turn 6d, i check and he bets 1,000 which I call, River 10c, I check and he Goes all in for approx 6,000 - this obviously threw me but after a bit of thinking time, I call and he shows QQ and I get a mauling for making such a stupid call.
Okay I get why he called me a donkey - he was representing the flush and how can I call with only 2 pair - my resoning was that this guy only plays AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ JJ - and im my mind I am only losing to AA because I beat everything else, and with an Ace in my hand and an Ace on the board - surely he can't have had AA, alsohe can't have a flush and I don't believe he has a set therefore my 2 pairs are good!!
The real question here is, did I play this hand badly because at the end of the day I put my tournament life on the line with A8, should I not go with my instinct as much and maybe play safer and give up on the hand and wait for a better spot in future? I have never really questioned my live game before, just these comments got to me and maybe there is a flaw in my game here!!
It was a 10,000 chip tourney, blinds are 50/100, so it's early on. I have 12,500 chips and in the small blind I have Ah 8c, it is folded over to me, I raise it up to 400 and the BB who is a very Tight and passive player decides to call, therefore alarm bells went off in my head - his call wasn't great news for me!! The flop comes As 8s 3s, I bet 600 and Villain raises to 2,000, I call, Turn 6d, i check and he bets 1,000 which I call, River 10c, I check and he Goes all in for approx 6,000 - this obviously threw me but after a bit of thinking time, I call and he shows QQ and I get a mauling for making such a stupid call.
Okay I get why he called me a donkey - he was representing the flush and how can I call with only 2 pair - my resoning was that this guy only plays AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ JJ - and im my mind I am only losing to AA because I beat everything else, and with an Ace in my hand and an Ace on the board - surely he can't have had AA, alsohe can't have a flush and I don't believe he has a set therefore my 2 pairs are good!!
The real question here is, did I play this hand badly because at the end of the day I put my tournament life on the line with A8, should I not go with my instinct as much and maybe play safer and give up on the hand and wait for a better spot in future? I have never really questioned my live game before, just these comments got to me and maybe there is a flaw in my game here!!
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As for your play if he is as tight as you say (which I doubt because he would be playing like 1 hand a hour) you should be raising his bb with any two cards, then shutting down unless you flop big. As played I am shoving flop.
Thing is with poker you can quite easily look like a fool or a genius. My best hero call was in a 1/2 cash game, I had queen high (a busted nut straight draw) my opponent bet a decent amount on the river, i thought he had a busted straight draw too so I called. He was drawing to the lower end of the straight and I won the pot with queen high. If I was wrong I would have looked like a idiot, some people may still think am an idiot even though I was correct. But like I said before its your money do what you think is best.
He on the other hand played it awful.....flatting pre flop qith QQ, then raising to 2k flop and then betting 1k turn LOL.
But yeah live players are generally lol anyway especially when they start rambling on about hands and then their donk mates agree with them its pretty funny actually.
slow play QQ PF
Panic and raise when A arrives on flop
Panic again and slow down on turn because he didnt get rid of you
Go completely mad and bet the farm on the river in the hope you will go away.