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 Small Stack at Final Table, GoBears, 3. Sep 2003 17:56 | ||
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| I love the constructive criticism on this board, and think I am due for some of my own. Played in a tournament on UB last night, and the stars aligned correctly and I made the final table. Unfortunately, I was the very small stack (around T7,300) when the average stack was probably T40,000 and the chip leader had more than T200,000. Blinds were 4,000-8,000 and I was lucky enough to start on the button. But, one bet and I'm all-in. Here's my question: I was dealt A-Jo on the first hand and chose to go all-in. I ended up losing to pocket 10's which I was not overly unhappy about. But, in hindsight, I'm thinking that it might have been better to wait it out (I had 9 hands before I had to act) and see if I could improve my payout by waiting for a couple others to go out. 10th place paid $46 and 8th paid something like $90. I had no delusions of winning the tournament, so I'm thinking I should've been more patient and maybe picked up a coule of extra bucks. Thoughts? | ||
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| Re: Small Stack at Final Table, Schuster, 3. Sep 2003 19:42 | ||
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| Unless someone else was very close to going out, they're going to sit back and watch you die before they start playing. I'd have put it all in with AJ and hoped for the best. | ||
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| Re: Small Stack at Final Table, EC, 3. Sep 2003 22:55 | ||
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| You did the right thing, while AJo might not be perfect it ain't bad, it's far from a guarantee that you'll see something better. The other players will be gunning for you if you have the shortest stack anyway, might as well make it or break it here. Eli on 3. Sep 2003 17:56 GoBears wrote: > I love the constructive criticism on this board, and think I am due for some of > my own. Played in a tournament on UB last night, and the stars aligned > correctly and I made the final table. Unfortunately, I was the very small stack > (around T7,300) when the average stack was probably T40,000 and the chip leader > had more than T200,000. Blinds were 4,000-8,000 and I was lucky enough to start > on the button. But, one bet and I'm all-in. Here's my question: > > I was dealt A-Jo on the first hand and chose to go all-in. I ended up losing > to pocket 10's which I was not overly unhappy about. But, in hindsight, I'm > thinking that it might have been better to wait it out (I had 9 hands before I > had to act) and see if I could improve my payout by waiting for a couple others > to go out. 10th place paid $46 and 8th paid something like $90. I had no > delusions of winning the tournament, so I'm thinking I should've been more > patient and maybe picked up a coule of extra bucks. > > Thoughts? | ||
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| Re: Small Stack at Final Table, palman, 4. Sep 2003 08:13 | ||
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| my motivation for going all in here would have been, if you wait 8 hands for a better hand, double up, the blinds bring you back to where you started. However, if you double up here...... you have 8 hands with which to double up again, which will give you the chance to actually be a factor in the tournament. | ||
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| Re: Small Stack at Final Table, noiseboy, 4. Sep 2003 10:00 | ||
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| More info please. If it was folded to you, I think you definitely go all-in with AJ as it is likely much better than the random blind hands, who might call you due to your small stack size. In other words, it is a great chance to double up. However, if there are several people already in the pot then your AJ might be dominated. Even so, You still might decide that this is a risk worth taking and go all-in, as you only have a few hands left before being blinded off. AJo isn't great, but it's better than average. You were only a slight dog to the TT's, so I think you got the situation you wanted, the cards just didn't fall your way. | ||
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| Re: Small Stack at Final Table, GoBears, 4. Sep 2003 13:21 | ||
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| Thanks for the advice. BTW, it was a NL tourney and everyone had folded to me on the button, so I'm feeling less and less upset about my decision. I did have the thought that if I could double up there, and once more before the BB got around to me, I could hang out for a while longer. | ||
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| Re: Small Stack at Final Table, Risky Business, 4. Sep 2003 13:26 | ||
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| Well then hell yeah, I'd play A-J against the blinds. The small blind will most likely fold with anything marginal and just let it play out (as to not give you any more money than you deserve), or the SB would raise to bump out the big blind, so you're pretty much heads up either way at that point with A-J. Not a bad holding. | ||
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