Wednesday, April 6, 2011
What Was I Thinking?
Sometimes, I think I will never learn anything. I was playing in the deep stack tournament at the Islands last night and doing pretty well. I had been reading hands and people OK and had a decent (but not great) chip stack of just over 100,000 with blinds of 3000-6000 (17 big blinds). There were 2 tables left. I was in the big blind for 6000. The player to my immediate left limped under the gun. I think everyone folded to Bobby Petty on my immediate right. Bobby had gone on a recent tear and had at least 175,000. He raised all-in. I found K-K in my hand and WITHOUT THINKING AT ALL pushed all in as well. BIG MISTAKE. In hindsight, I honestly believe that I could have folded my kings pre-flop if I had given one second's thought to who had raised. This guy is the tightest rock on the planet, I kid you not. As soon as I pushed all in, I did not feel right about it. The limper folded, Bobby insta-called and had the dreaded aces and I was gone. To make matters worse he got an ace on the turn and I was drawing dead. It was so stupid. I don't think I'm ready for Pendleton. Gak!
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OK, I agree with you that Petty is a rock, but that said his all in push would have seemed more like queens to me. That is a pre-emptive strike move that practically screams I do not want any callers whereas AA if played really smart makes like a min-raise practically begging for KK to reraise so he can drop the hammer. I have done his move successfully with AA in the past, but do not feel that it extracts maximum value from hands that will call like JJ or QQ, or even AK. I would have insta called as well expecting to see JJ or QQ at the most.
Make sure to check out my blog, there is a test on it about a hand I recently played.
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