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[kristianlinnell]

This is my first post on an online poker forum but I thought it would be cool to share a story that just happened less than an hour ago.It was on the final table of a PL tournament that started with about 64 players. To set the scene: The buy in was £10 and that gave you 500 worth of chips. The blinds started at 25/25 and went up every 20 minutes. In the first hour and forty-five minutes you could rebuy then after that you could top-up once and then it was a knockout.There were 10 players on the final table with the blinds at 600/1200. In the first hand the short stack (with about 800 chips) went all-in, lost and so there were 9 left. In the next hand I get delt pocket 10s in a late position. A player limps in for the 1200 before me and I - with a starting chip stack of 9600 - call and raise it by 3000. No one else calls the 4200 to play and the limper just calls the extra 3000. Now I'm thinking in my head he must have a hand that he needs to hit or he's smooth-calling a big hand. Just from the way I read him I felt that he was looking to make a hand. The flop comes 6,8,J (Rainbow). I was watching him not the flop and he didn't like it. So when I looked at the flop I went all in for the 5400 chips I had left and he called. He turned over... pocket 4s. Now I can't believe it and I'll say why: 1) It's the final table of a tourney. I have an average stack and with the prize money rising I have no reason to bluff my place in the tournament with something that doesn't beat the bottom pair.2) My raise on the flop is about 75% of the chips he has left so if he loses -with the blinds coming around to him - he is majorly short stacked at the table. 3) He doesn't beat the bottom pair and there are no straight or flush draws for him to hit.4) The way I bet it pre and after the flop indicates I have something that beats pocket 4s. It's the call more than anything that makes this for me such a bad beat. The turn is blank and as you know because this is a post in the 'Bad Beats' forum the river was a 4. I went out 9th. I still won £50. Minus the £10 I payed to play I made £40. It isn't much but it's the principle.There's my story and I hope you enjoyed the read while I sit here fluming at what might have been without the call or 4. With my 21000 (15600 if he didn't call the raise on the flop) chips (about 3rd place in chips) and a £1015 first prize. :cry: P.S. Please feel free to comment on whether I played this badly or anything you might have done different.

[Swift_Psycho]

Welcome to the forum. Seems like somewhat bad luck, though I think you probably should have just moved in pre-flop with only 6x the BB left. With blinds that high, it's generally move in or fold poker. He might have called the pre-flop all in though, so the beat was possibly inevitable.

[kristianlinnell]

Swift_Psycho said:

Welcome to the forum. Seems like somewhat bad luck, though I think you probably should have just moved in pre-flop with only 6x the BB left. With blinds that high, it's generally move in or fold poker. He might have called the pre-flop all in though, so the beat was possibly inevitable.

It was a PL tournament so the maximum I could raise was 4200 (600SB + 1200BB + 1200(Limper's c all) + 1200(My call)). I did only raise 3000 out of that with the thought in mind that if any of the three tighter players still to act after me re-raised it I could fold and still have enough to play with.I guess I'll never know if he would have called that extra 1200, .

[Swift_Psycho]

kristianlinnell said:

Swift_Psycho said:

Welcome to the forum. Seems like somewhat bad luck, though I think you probably should have just moved in pre-flop with only 6x the BB left. With blinds that high, it's generally move in or fold poker. He might have called the pre-flop all in though, so the beat was possibly inevitable.

It was a PL tournament so the maximum I could raise was 4200 (600SB + 1200BB + 1200(Limper's c all) + 1200(My call)). I did only raise 3000 out of that with the thought in mind that if any of the three tighter players still to act after me re-raised it I could fold and still have enough to play with.I guess I'll never know if he would have called that extra 1200, .

AH, my bad. Most stuff we talk about here is either NL or limit, so I just overlooked the PL unintentionally. I think you probably should have raised the max to do everything you can to isolate against that one player though. Obviously the rest goes in on the flop. With only 6x the BB, you really got to make some moves soon anyway.