I'll preface this post by stating that I know I am an idiot.
OK, with that little disclaimer out of the way, I want to bring up two different subjects with regard to this particular hand...
Tonight was my third straight attempt at Full Tilt's $65K Guarantee, and probably the last night I'll be able to play it for a while, since my normal work schedule doesn't really allow me to stay up that late and still be alert.
The first night I finished 51st and felt I made quite a few mistakes. The second night I felt lke I made fewer and smaller mistakes, and finished 11th. Tonight I was going to try my best to win it.
So we're almost three hours in and I have a top ten chip stack. Everything seems to be going according to plan. There's only one player at my table who's giving me any trouble, and he's raising 21% of the hands. That's high, yes, but even higher when you consider that he seemed to only be raising when there were limpers, or if someone had raised, he would often re-raise. I should also mention that this opponent is the only one with enough chips to hurt me.
Next thing you know it's his big blind and I have A-Q. I know I should raise, and I'm pretty sure that he'll re-raise. I pause for a minute and decide that if he raises me I am going to push all-in. So I raised, and he re-raised as expected. But he re-raised all-in for 55 big blinds! Here's the hand history:
Full Tilt Poker Game #9843651585: $65,000 Guarantee (73620987), Table 41 - 150/300 Ante 25 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:29:26 ET - 2009/01/03
Seat 1: tomteforever (12,595)
Seat 2: bigolebeast (13,028)
Seat 3: o LIMIT 45 o (11,054)
Seat 4: Chipless Wonder (16,420)
Seat 5: THE_GOLDMINE (8,814)
Seat 6: wwheat (2,853)
Seat 7: sillylife (7,561)
Seat 8: mordi20 (16,610)
Seat 9: jtinweimar (5,834)
tomteforever antes 25
bigolebeast antes 25
o LIMIT 45 o antes 25
Chipless Wonder antes 25
THE_GOLDMINE antes 25
wwheat antes 25
sillylife antes 25
mordi20 antes 25
jtinweimar antes 25
sillylife posts the small blind of 150
mordi20 posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Chipless Wonder [As Qc]
jtinweimar folds
tomteforever folds
bigolebeast folds
o LIMIT 45 o folds
Chipless Wonder raises to 900
THE_GOLDMINE folds
wwheat has 15 seconds left to act
wwheat folds
sillylife folds
mordi20 raises to 16,585, and is all in
Chipless Wonder calls 15,495, and is all in
mordi20 shows [4s 4h]
Chipless Wonder shows [As Qc]
Uncalled bet of 190 returned to mordi20
*** FLOP *** [3d 9d 4d]
*** TURN *** [3d 9d 4d] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [3d 9d 4d Qd] [6c]
Chipless Wonder: nh & gg
mordi20 shows three of a kind, Fours
Chipless Wonder shows a pair of Queens
mordi20 wins the pot (33,165) with three of a kind, Fours
Chipless Wonder stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 33,165 | Rake 0
Board: [3d 9d 4d Qd 6c]
Seat 1: tomteforever folded before the Flop
Seat 2: bigolebeast folded before the Flop
Seat 3: o LIMIT 45 o folded before the Flop
Seat 4: Chipless Wonder showed [As Qc] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: THE_GOLDMINE folded before the Flop
Seat 6: wwheat (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: sillylife (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: mordi20 (big blind) showed [4s 4h] and won (33,165) with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 9: jtinweimar folded before the Flop
Obviously I know I should have folded to his all-in re-raise. It screamed weakness to me, but calling was still a huge mistake. I'm past that. My question is more along these lines... This is an excellent player with a top ten stack. What in the world is he doing here, re-raising all-in for 55 BB with pocket fours? Can this strategy possibly work in the long-term?
My second question is in regards to this guy's table image. I was playing well tonight, but it was his table image that actually made me make a mistake and call his all-in here. I based the decision purely on emotion. I wanted to bust him so bad for shoving with such weak cards. Now that I'm writing this out, I can't remember what my question was. So maybe just tell me that this has happened to you, and I'm 'normal'.![]()
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