RazorStrap

His thinking wasn't "gee, I guess I've put in 1/3 my stack I might as well shove in the rest."It was more like, "I could be a dog here, but if I fold I will still have about ten times the blinds and antes left in my stack, which is a playable stack."I don't remember exactly how those T8 hands went down, but what you said in your second point probably went into his thinking on those. Sometimes in tourneys, especially late when the blinds are big you just have to go with a hand and hope you catch something.jmho

I don't think that calling pre-flop is neccesarily a bad play, because if you raise and get re-raised you pretty much have to commit yourself to the hand.But when the flop came queen high with no obvious draws... I think I would have bet the pot and made HIM commit himself to this hand. On the flop your only real worry is that he could have QQ, If he does it's just bad luck. If he has any ace which is a reasonably likelyhood, why let him draw for free?Even the Q on the turn creates a problem for you, because he certainly could be playing a and like AQ.In my experience the extra chips you MAK

Brunson put in a big re-raise and she played back at him.Brunson knows she wouldn't do that without a big pair or AK, so he is either a big dog, or at best has a coin flip. Yeah, she COULD just be making a play but he'll be pot commited if he goes any further.Regardless of the pot odds, if he looses the hand he's done, and there isn't much glory in busting out fifth.I think he figures with his skill he will still have enough chips left to play his way back into contention... which he did.I was suprised at the way he finally busted out after reaching over 8 million chips. I think he could hav

Yeah... hurt my ****in hand too. Oh, and quit getting that god damned pineapple and sour kraut pizza, I hate that ****. At least the flies leave it alone though.

Actually... its the face under the thing that annoys ME.

"Hey, Devilfish, eight to five says I can check-raise Annie's shirt and she'll laugh about it."

Yeah, totally agree with coppernicus.I like your near pot sized bet on the flop because, at that point, there is no reason to assume your hand is not the best. But when they call that bet, especially after they've checked it to you.... RED FLAGS man! Save your chips for a better spot.

I play mostly tournaments, so not sure what the cash game perspective would be.I don't think this is a horrible play. You'll probably only get called by a set or AK... well O.K., early in a tournament you may get called by literally anything, but you only SHOULD get called by a set or AK, in which case you'll be behind but have a great draw, especially with two cards to come.I think the fact that you have about twice the chips of your two opponents makes this an O.K. play.I'ts definitely a much more fun and interesting way to play the hand than just calling and hoping to hit.

Yeah, I'd say you should have folded when the CO moved in, but, now that you're in there, I'd probably go ahead and put the rest of my chips in.My thinking is that if you take down the pot you will be up to 44,000, and in great shape. Yeah, you're probably a dog to win the hand, but your're a dog with only 7000 chips left too. Sometimes in tourneys you just have to take a shot and get lucky, the trick is not to routinely rely on luck... and if you're going to try to get lucky... do it when the pot is BIG!

The way he played it, I would put him on a poket pair, probably queens or jacks, but could be any, seems like he was afraid of the ace, but felt he had a stong hand.If he has a pp yours is better or at least as good. I think your stack is plenty big enough that you can afford take a chance and call his river bet with the second best possible hand. The problem with raising is you open yourself up to a re-raise. I would just call it down.Please post the result, curious if I've read it right.

Since you posted this as a pot odds question, here's something to consider when calculating pot odds. The Ace and King of hearts are unaccounted for.Since we know that people tend to play big cards there is a possibility that the villain my hold one or the other. People also like to play suited cards, so he could have a draw to the ace high, or king high flush. So... you may make your flush and STILL lose to a better flush, which doesn't nececessarily mean that you don't play the hand, BUT, if your pot odds are borderline, I would take this into consideration and it would lean me towards a

In tournament play, you really have to take advantage of these situations, and look at them as a potential opportunity to swallow up a smaller stack. At some point you have to aquire chips, and this is a situation that lets you take a shot at building your stack against an opponent who can't put you all-in.Yeah, you'd prefer a better hand, but if your opponent doesn't have a pair, you're not in that bad of shape considering the pot odds, plus this is a VERY easy hand to get away from if you miss the flop completely.

I don't think you're very wrong either folding in this spot, or calling as you did.I like the way you played it, though, especially since you had him heads-up.#1 Since he's short stacked he's very likely to be playing a less than premium hand (lol, though obviously not the case this time)#2 Since he's short stacked, if you catch a piece of the flop and get him all-in against you, you have him covered and he really can't hurt you that much.since he's short stacked everyone at the table will be trying to bust him and get his chips, so why shouldn't you take a shot while you have the chance.Als

Hey you bastards...... quit bad mouthing my kid.MY KID CAN MAKE YOUR HONOR STUDENT HIS BYTCH!

My work here is through.... good luck to you.