I played at Poker deNom on Tuesday http://www.pokerdenom.com/ in their weekly $100 rebuy game. This is the second time ive played here and am still impressed by the venue. The dealers are very professional, the tables are very spacious and the decor is great, very Casino Royale.
This week saw were 31 runners. 8000 chips with a starting blind level of 25/50. Blind levels double every 20 mins and I seem to remember that by the end of the rebuy period this equaled blinds of 800/1600. The first few hands saw an AA vs AA vs KK in one hand with the winner hitting quad QQQQ the next hand. This put a few players on tilt early and with the play so loose and being very card dead I couldnt get involved. I flopped 2 pair in the blinds with 45o and made a few thousand chips. With 30 mins before the break I found 55 in the Big Blind and the guy to my right had the same stack size of around 7000.
I think the blinds were 400/800. Its folded to him and he min raises 1600. I push hoping to take the 2000 in the pot. He stops and thinks. He comments that ive only played 3 hands all night..... he says he would easily call against anyone else.... he says he must be way behind..... so he calls!
He turns over AJ, a hand that could be easily dominated. I understand that we are still in the rebuy period but that wasnt his reason for calling. AJ was a premium hand to this player. The Jack came on he river forcing me to rebuy.
The prize pool (approx..)
1st $2100
2nd $1100
3rd $600
4th $100
I enter the freezeout period at the same chip level as the start of the night 8k. I again have to tighten up, given no option to steal comfortably. The table was broken, down to 20 players. A while later I had been treading water and managed to steal a few small pots to stay alive. UTG I find 99. the blinds are 800/1600 and they go up the next hand. I push and UTG+1 reraises to 15k to isolate me. F*ck, bad timing. UTG+2 calls for all his chips 15K.. Oh dear. everyone else folds
99
KK
TT
TT ? bad call I think. He hits a T on the flop but I river the straight. I triple up for my only suckout of the night. With chips in hand I could start to finally play some poker. I started attacking the medium stacks and putting in a few reraises to steal pots. A few hours later I make it to the final 5 with an average stack. Bubble time. The two shorties double up, one through me SB (k2) vs my BB (A9) , he called the SB and I reraised him all in for half my chips. K on the flop and I need to start playing again.
I look for the next opportunity to push all in. I see a K7s that I think I should have open pushed but folded.
Next hand im UTG and the blinds are now 8k/16k. I have 40k in chips left. Other stacks are around 40k-80k ish. I look at A6o. I open push and get called by TT and AA. out on the bubble for $0.
So did I play this hand correctly ?
My thoughts....
If I fold then next hand I am pot committed. I would have 40% of my stack in the big blind. 16k / 40k = 40%. I have no fold equity the next hand and would have to hoe it is folded around to me, unlikely.
I have fold equity at the moment with probably the best hand. I probably have the best hand with an A but may look desperate playing from this position knowing im the Big Blind next hand.
I have an increased fold equity as we are on the bubble.
Im going for 1st place and not to limp into 4th.
I believe this was the right decision at the time, I was just unlucky to run into two premium hands. Anyone play this different ??
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