roundcat
Creature of leisure
Silver Level
Dorkus Malorkus
HELLO INTERNET
Silver Level
Dingodaddy23 said:
Incorrect and being results-oriented. Had you hit your A or K, would you be questioning your play?
If you flat call, you're most likely going to have to face another bet when having seen only three board cards. If your A or K don't hit (i.e. 2/3rds of the time), you will be forced to fold. Pushing and ensuring you see all five board cards in a probable coinflip situation is ideal, and the correct play (I'm assuming you weren't deepstacked, in which case a call or pot reraise may be more appropriate).
robwhufc
Cardschat Elite
Silver Level
I saw the play - i'd have made it. Dingo was in 3 or 4th place, 50 or 60K chips blinds weren't huge i dont think 1,500/3,000 + ante. Chip leader raised from early position and Dingo went all in with AK. The all-in put the pressure on the chip leader - does he call and bust down from 70K + to 15K? I'm not sure whether i'd have done with a pair of 8's. He bust someone out shortly after when he rivered a King with K2 against QQ all in, so it was definately his day.
ChuckTs
Legend
Silver Level
VERY nice job dingo! 
Congrats on the final table - it sounds like you made the right play with that AK too - like dorkus said "don't be results orientated"
You play to win, and pushing was probably the right move.
Again congrats!
Congrats on the final table - it sounds like you made the right play with that AK too - like dorkus said "don't be results orientated"
You play to win, and pushing was probably the right move.
Again congrats!
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Dingodaddy23
Rock Star
Silver Level
thanks for your support everyone!! it was cool to know that i had fans railbirding!! I'm semi-satisfied with my performance, The more I think about it, I question the other guy's play of calling off 90% of his chips at the final table of a tourney like that with 8/8. I had come over the top a few times already though so I had a loose image, but still, coinflip for all ur chips a the FT as a bigstack? I wouldnt have called an all in with 8/8 there.
I thoroughly enjoyed playing the tournament tho, got to put a few moves on and play thinking man's poker. It's refreshing not to play with donkeys you know, you really gotta think. I only really had 1 major suckout, I went for a blind steal with 9/10s, got re-raised by BB who had done this multiple times before, so I put him on a re-steal and moved in on him, called by AQ but I sucked out with a 9 on the river to double up. It really was fun, I got into to it soooo much.
Bad part is that I "only" got 900 bucks for 7th place finish, if I could have lasted a little longer I could have got up around 2k for 3rd, up to 6500 for first. That woulda helped out a lot in life right now, I'm kinda mad at myself for risking it all with AK like that when the pay scale escalates so much and a few grand would really help me out where Im at in life right now, but oh well, I play to win, took my shot with AK and lost theh flip, life goes on. It was fun, I think Ill try again tonight.
Later all
I thoroughly enjoyed playing the tournament tho, got to put a few moves on and play thinking man's poker. It's refreshing not to play with donkeys you know, you really gotta think. I only really had 1 major suckout, I went for a blind steal with 9/10s, got re-raised by BB who had done this multiple times before, so I put him on a re-steal and moved in on him, called by AQ but I sucked out with a 9 on the river to double up. It really was fun, I got into to it soooo much.
Bad part is that I "only" got 900 bucks for 7th place finish, if I could have lasted a little longer I could have got up around 2k for 3rd, up to 6500 for first. That woulda helped out a lot in life right now, I'm kinda mad at myself for risking it all with AK like that when the pay scale escalates so much and a few grand would really help me out where Im at in life right now, but oh well, I play to win, took my shot with AK and lost theh flip, life goes on. It was fun, I think Ill try again tonight.
Later all
robwhufc
Cardschat Elite
Silver Level
Unless your opponent tells you what they've got, you'll have to take a chance. I'm sure we've all played tournements where you dont see a playable hand for 40 - 50 hands - how long do you think you would have survived playing tight, waiting for a bigger hand than AK? Maybe the next hand you'd have got would have been AA? You'll never know. I think you played fine - i imagine you caught one or 2 earlier! You were right, calling with 88 was a brave/stupid move - you would have been happy if he called with AQ wouldn't you (at least until the inevitable Q arrived). 6th place didn't pay much more than 7th - the people that win these final tables are the ones that come over the top with hands like AK.Dingodaddy23 said: