ya I know it is, I am more than willing to put the work in tho.

Currently 2/26 in the 5.5k rebuy on merge if anyone wants a sweat. DAFISHFARMERDURRR

Pretty disgusting end to the tourney last night.

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CO: t211568.00 M = 2.78
BTN: t520922.00 M = 6.85
Hero (SB): t1730029.00 M = 22.76
BB: t960981.00 M = 12.64

Pre Flop: (t76000) Hero is SB with Q Q
CO raises to t211568 all in, 1 fold, Hero calls t191568, BB raises to t1000981 all in, Hero calls t789413

Flop: (t2229530) 7 7 3 (3 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: (t2229530) 7 (3 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t2229530) 9 (3 players - 2 are all in)




2 outer away from basically another 4 figure pay day.... sigh thats poker lol

Sorry, Charlie, but once the chips are all in preflop, you can't call QQ vs 99 a two-outer - even when you get to the turn. A 70% fav is much different than a 95% fav. Don't be disingenuous by calling it something it is not. When the money went in you were a 7:3 favorite, and that doesn't change no matter how the board runs out.

Also, that smooth call was atrocious. You just gave the BB 3:1 preflop with position on the chip leader with one player allin. He can call with a lot of stuff in hopes to either:

1) You or him break the CO, moving up a pay slot, losing 2.25M if he misses.
2) Double up through you while breaking the CO, moving up a pay slot, and having an M of more than double of player position #2.

As is, you gave away your hand (college kid on break holding a premium pocket pair trying to trap) and the BB couldn't figure it out.

Now, which hands do you stuff and which do you call? Since this is a small site, you're going to be playing against the same opponents a lot. Probably don't want to be too transparent in standard spots.

If this were a satellite where 3 players advance, then you played it perfectly. Also, don't come back and say, "Dude, it doesn't matter. He was calling with that 99 anyway, even if I stuffed." because it does matter.

I played it that way because I had the image of playing my big hands very fast, and I was hoping to induce an iso by the BB. I had had 2 big pocket pairs at the final table, and I had 3 bet them both and played them both fast and they both were shown, so I tried to get tricky with it. Also BB was a major fish so he wasnt going to pick up that I basically gave my hand away, even tho I'm not sure I did given my image of playing big hands fast. I was the chip leader, so I could easily have just been trying to eliminate the short stack with a marginal hand based on the pot odds, which is the image I was trying to show.

In hindsight tho, I should never lay those odds. I played it the way I did just because of my image at the final table, this isnt a standard play from me by any means

What you basically said is, "I don't usually play it like this..." and then wrote a paragraph of terrible thought processes.

Instead of posting hands in this thread, post them in the MTT forum and let them yell at you for a while.

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Just kinda wanted to follow up with this thread even though its been a while. I have continued to play poker mainly as a serious hobby and have done pretty well. Above are my sharkscope stats for all of last year and this year, plus I have around 3.2k profit on bovada since the beginning of february, so 5 figures of profit in the past 15 months for me is something im proud of. I have met a few people from being in a stable about 6 months ago that I still continue to talk to to this day, and that is one of the biggest ways that I have inproved my game. Having people to talk about different hands and situations is easily the best way to improve. I am always trying to see if there is a different way to think of a situation and if I can use that to exploit my opponents. That is one piece of advice I would give to someone who might be in the spot I was in when I made this thread, is to be active in forums and meet new people. You can truly never have enough friends in the poker community

The reason I am even reading this thread again is that I was talking to a friend of mine who is trying to get into poker and I told him to read this thread since there is great info in it.

Also, after reading the posts right above this one about the QQ hand, I honestly cant believe that guy thinks that flatting there is a horrible. If he honestly thinks I'm only doing that with nutted hands he has lost his mind.