SlackerInc
Thursday, May 10th, 2007, 2:23 PM
QUOTE (StupidKid @ Thursday, May 10th, 2007, 4:51 PM)

I thought we were both fairly deep stacked and I could easily dump them if repopped thus I thought it was a relatively good opportunity to give up on the flop.
I was obviously looking for a villain fold on the turn since I figured he can't have been that strong.
Dream river obviously, I'm not sure if I a large river overbet might have worked something like 2000+ instead of 1000?
Hard to say. I guess I will tell what I had at this point: AJ. I was actually intending to check-raise the flop, but you checked behind. After that, I guess I had an opportunity to get away when you raised the turn, but the pot odds were too good, and the likelihood that I had or could draw to the best hand was too high to fold (I thought--anyone disagree?). Then the river of course gave me aces up, and it was hard to get away from, though I did fear the flush (notice I called instead of raising). The best card for you would have been a non-heart A. I would have been a lot more likely to raise, or to call a bigger bet (2000 might have been hard to call with those three hearts out there).
This hand was pivotal given the final standings, I think. At the beginning of the hand, we were very close, kind of co-chip leaders almost. After the hand, he was the dominant stack and I was one of the shorties. This was hand #38. Yet by hand #126, where we were three handed, I was second stack and had almost caught back up to SK (6995 to 5445). I petered out after that (and goheels made an impressive comeback: his stack was only at 685 by hand #130); but I have to wonder how things would have gone had I not lost so much of my stack to SK in this hand.