Playing in the Jokers Tuesday night tournament, I had about 22,000 with blinds of 1,000-2,000. I was in the cut-off one seat before the button. With no raises in front of me and 4 limpers, I called with 4-4. (First mistake.)
Flop was 4-8-A, all spades. It was checked around to me and I checked also with my set. (Second mistake.)
The turn was another spade. Oops. Checked to Ryan 2 seats to my right. He bets 3,000. I call. (Third mistake.) Everyone else folds.
The river is a blank and naturally doesn't pair the board. Ryan bets 4,000. I go into the tank for about 1 minute and decide he's bluffing with 4 spades on the board and call him. (Last mistake). Naturally he has Q-J offsuit with the jack of spades.
I honestly believe I could have avoided all this stupidity with a shove all-in pre-flop. Knowing Ryan, I don't think he would have called 22,000 pre-flop with jack-queen offsuit.
On the very next hand I pick up 9-9 and shove my last 11,000 or so into the pot. I get called by K-Q and Q-J and naturally a queen falls and I'm toast. Worst Player Ever!!! (The only two good things about the tournament were that I made the final table (as usual) and that I had (as usual) the best hand when I did go all in.)
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Yes, some bad decisions there, Lynne. With only 11 big blinds and all the limpers you definitely should have shoved with the 4's. Failing that, a shove on the flop was called for. It was unlikely that anyone had flopped a flush, and the jack had to worry about the queen or king. You just got unlucky on the other one. Hope you did well on the $500 added tourney.
Rereading my comments here, and your comments on my last post, I agree that my better play was all in shove preflop. You just can't screw around with only 10 BB's. That said, I am pretty sure KQ suited calls....that prices in KJ....and the outcome for me is the same, just one hand sooner. With the character of the players in mind a best play may have been smooth calling with 8's on the button, then either folding to a bet or shoving if checked to me. The second hand was just not bright given my chip stack...he had no fold equity, had just chipped up and better to fold and wait for a couple of hands.
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