Finals advice

[BigPete33]

Was just thinking that

An important factor to consider is that for the venue I played against this guy at (which was all of season 1 2007), I really only played premium hands and often folded my way to victory (victory = points). He knew this.

I was early position (quite possibly UTG) and the raise was from memory 3x the BB. No less than 4 callers mind you!

flop comes out and he's first to act (then me and then every1 else) and he bets $200, I instantly raise to $500 and every1 else caves in. He then pushes allin and I put him on K something but I was thinking KA KQ KJ or KT (obviously not KK cos I had the other one). I even said out loud 'well you've got K something' and after much agony I called only to see he'd called a pre-flop raise, from me in early position no less, with only K9 offsuit.

What I was most not happy with, was the lack of an ace coming out to save my bacon

Anyhoo, my read was correct (but not as correct as perhaps it could have been) and it cost me bigtime.

I did much better the next time so I can sleep at night now lol

[bennymacca]

even if your read told you that he flopped a full house, would you have trusted it enough to fold your hand?

thats a massive fold - K9 or 99 are the only 2 winning hands.

i reckon that even if i didn't like it, i would have called, just in case he had another K, or maybe something like AA. flopping a full house is just insane (and funny)

[AceLosesKing]

I was early position (quite possibly UTG) and the raise was from memory 3x the BB. No less than 4 callers mind you!

Blinds were 25/50, yes? That's only a raise to 150. Would I call 150 on K 9 offsuit, second hand of state finals? Possibly.

What a flop though, set you up and killed you at the same time

[BigPete33]

You weren't him, and didn't play against me all of season 1

K 9 off is rubbish too IMO.


Not wrong there tho, it went from "hooray!" to "ohh noes!" in record time.

[AceLosesKing]

You weren't him, and didn't play against me all of season 1

True Guess he didn't put much thought into how you play, then

K 9 off is rubbish too IMO.

I don't know, with 3000 to blow, I think you'd find more people would call it than those that would fold. Only 150.

How do you put someone on K 9, though? The only hand (or 99) that can beat you.

I like sharing state finals bad beats

[BigPete33]

when I went out at the recent one it was my 99 vs Q9. He hit a Q on the flop. At least he had the decency to go on and win the whole thing

[Matty Norwood]

when I went out at the recent one it was my 99 vs Q9. He hit a Q on the flop. At least he had the decency to go on and win the whole thing

how considerate of steve

[Nevah play JJ]

OK I am ready now for all the boos, hisses and plain old frowns I will get from everyone but tonight I tried the competitors brand of poker, most of which can be brought into discussion in another forum.

HOWEVER!!!!!

I learned ALOT tonight.
I learned I did not yet have the discipline or the experience in place to play with a larger stack. I really felt I learned more from playing tonight than I would have if I had gone cold into the finals without having this experienced.

I figured if I had a larger stack, I could just waste chips by calling anything and everything and I would romp it in.

I was wrong!

I lost nearly everything, rechecked and tightened my game and came back.

The funny thing was I won.. LOL

[todd182]

dont do what im a little famous for the last 3 seasons and choke and finish 6th