Another deep finish…but fizzled out in 6th
I ended up taking a 6th place finish for about $2.7k last night in a $109 turbo.
After analyzing some of my hands, I realized this — just because you made the final table doesn’t mean you should just sit there and turtle for a hand. You need to go with your reads and take shots sometimes. There were at least two spots where I could have taken the chiplead with 6 remaining, but I decided to pass on those spots because I was too nervous about the spot I would end up finishing in.
As an example:
I was the BB with a pair of 3s and had about a 187k stack with the blinds at 10k/20k and the shortstack moved in for 97k in mid position. There was a quick caller behind, and it was folded to me. Normally, I would call and see a flop or even move all in to isolate…but instead, I folded. Had I moved all in, the other caller likely would have called with his Kc Qc because he already had half his chips in, and I would’ve taken the chiplead. Hell, even if I just called we likely would have checked it down to eliminate the shortstack.
But instead, I decided to deviate because I wanted to look for a better spot. That ended up costing me a higher up finish. So I guess what I am trying to get at is play the way you would play the hand most of the time, because it probably is the most efficient way to play it. You obviously don’t wanna do that 100% of the time(because you would become too predictable), but I would say you want to make the move you make most of the time because it is probably +EV.
I ended up going out with AQ vs AK.
edit:
So I’m on the 2+2 forum reading a thread about ‘degenerate stories’, and some of them are hilarious:
i started palying 1 year ago, some relly nice guy send me 100 bucks to play, i ran to the tables i made about 1200, the next day i was in the 500 1 million guaranteed, lost it, and lost everythin in the nezt week, since the i stole my mom credit card and put 100, then 200, then 100, then 200, until i was 3000 in debt, sshe caught me, i told her i was going to pay her, but i havent. i skip classes from time to time, go to the casino, put 20 on some dozen, lose and im out, sometimes i bet on sports, i have like 100 tickts on my room, i still live with my parents, im 20 with 0 dollars to my name, im a donk at college also.
Then this one:
I turned 18 in February of 2006. Ever since then, my dad and I have been going to Indian casinos 3 to 4 nights a week. He is a teacher and doesn’t like the crowds on the weekends so we go on week nights, stay till about 4 or 5 AM then he goes to work on no sleep and I go to class. When we go, he plays blackjack and I play poker(I end up at the BJ tables cause of ape tilt).
We both lose a **** ton of money. We make sure to take the daily limit out of the ATM before midnight so if we lose we can take out more then. He is in debt from gambling 50k and about 15-20 of it is money he has given me. We have swongs every night of anywhere from 3k to -5k. Every casino in the area knows us by name and it’s very depressing. My girlfriend broke up with me cause of it. I have no friends. I can’t find a job because the last one I had I stole 600$ from. FML.With all of that said, we’re going again tonight! Ship it!
The last tilt session I had, ended in my converting my FPP to a T shirt, cos after losing like $60, I figured stars had virtually taken the shirt off my back so I ordered another one.
