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Originally Posted by NorthMetroPoker
I feel that he think I always play terrible poker and still play the terrible hands and he always thinks that I will never match his "skill level" when it comes to cards.
Let him think that. You win on the felt, not in the courtroom.
I can think of a few people who have frequently questioned my plays. I let 'em think what they want. One guy, after getting stacked due to my betting a flopped flush the entire way, asked, "How can you bet that flop?" I just shrugged and stacked his chips. I didn't tell him it was because I knew that he wouldn't believe me and would call me down the whole way.
You don't
want your opponents to have an accurate view of your play, or a deep understanding of your thought process. The whole point of the game is to keep them ill informed about exactly those things.
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Originally Posted by NorthMetroPoker
In looking back at the hand, I looked at it as the opposite. To me, at worst, I'd be up against AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AK or AQ. Those are the only hands that "technically" have me dominated.
Write out a list of all the hands you think he'd raise UTG. Now separate the hands you think he'd fold to your shove. How do these lists look? I don't know, only you do. But maybe this will be an informative exercise for all of us.
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Maybe I was a little impatient but I didn't feel the need to try and look for one of the top 6 hands in poker with 10-minute blinds and already being under 20 BB's.
It's not the hand so much as the situation. AJo after an UTG open and a call is VERY weak.
I think you're also over-valuing skill in this kind of game. Here's how you win short-stacked turbos: get good hands, bet the hell out of them, hope they hold up. Repeat. Over the long run, this wins. In a tournament you only have a finite number of "moves" to play. Make them count.
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I am VERY against the thought of calling just to see a flop especially when one is so short stacked.
I don't think anybody here is advocating that. Your friend is wrong about calling off 15-20% of your stack, I feel. But that doesn't make you right about shoving. The beauty of poker is that EVERYBODY can be wrong about how to play the same hand.
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Seeing AJ after being completely card dead was perhaps maybe a little too "premium" in my eyes after seeing the awful run of cards I had prior to it.
You're right, patience and endurance are factors in tournaments. Today I watched a woman stack off by 3-bet shoving her 12 BBs with AT into AK's raise. After she left, the entire table was baffled by her play, figuring maybe she was just tired and wanted to go home. They said she hadn't shown down a hand all night, and had been playing fairly tight and smart.
You can play great all day, but in tournaments it doesn't really matter how you played your first hand... what matters is your
last hand.