Friday, September 22, 2006

Finished in 3rd place in Full Tilt $24 MTT


Last night I played a good game and cashed for the 3rd place prize playing as TITUSOO in The Full Tilt $6500 Guaranteed 24+2 Multi Table Tournament with a starting field of 372. When I say good game, I mean good. It was not an excellent performance. I got very good hole cards and laid bad beats on people, but I did make my share of moves when necessary and managed to get as far as the final table where I made a fatal error that cost me a possible 1st place prize. It is funny that after winning I felt more upset than elated after cashing in close to $1100, but do not worry I feel much better today. The hand goes like this, The Blinds are 5,000T/10,000T with 1,000T ante I have about 120,000T and am in second place with 3 players left. The short stack has about 75,000T. I call his BB and he pushes. I have 44. Since he has less than 8BB, I put him on a wide range of hands, which includes over cards. If he has A9-AK or any other A, I am slightly ahead, 22 and 33 I dominate. This logic is flawed and I should have folded. I was staring at a minimum second place prize if I won the race and was mesmerized. On this hand, Chill can say I grew impatient and I would have to agree. I call his push and he flips over 10 10, aaaargggh! His 10's hold up and I am eliminated a few hands later. If anyone is interested in viewing the complete tourney in an animated form, hand for hand let me know.

2 Comments:

At 9:48 AM, Blogger AKvader said...

Uknown,

Congrats big time!

Sounds like you played real well...enjoy your score...

Your all-in call...probably wasn't your best play...you've got pretty good lead over the small stack...and pretty much any pair or overcards you'd be in a race...

probably better to wait a litle bit for some better cards... or maybe let the big stack take him on

 
At 10:07 AM, Blogger Frank said...

thanx!

You are right. The blinds were high enough to put me in gamble mode and I wanted more chips to make a run for first place where the big prize was. Big stack was at about 350,000T. The difference between 3rd and 2nd place was only a little more than $300 so I thought I was getting value for my call.

 

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