What a night!
Six hours of battling poker, I was playing some of the best poker I've played to date. I took a couple of weeks off on vacation, read a tonne of books and when I got back home hit the casino. I was playing so well, probably around chip leader at the final table of a tournament.
That's when the Aces hit...
First hand, pre-flop the short stacks were shoving, naturally, with any high card they had. No one really called and they swallowed the blinds. However, on two occasions I did call the shoves. On the two occasions I had Aces.
Hand 1: The first beat.
I'm in middle position, raise with my Aces 4xBB which was around 12,000 at the time. The guy in the BB shoves for around 7k more and I call. He turns over J7 and I show him my Aces. He gets up to leave.
Flop 74J -- game over.
Hand 2: The second beat.
I've lost a couple of pots since then but still sitting with about a 50k stack UTG raises 3xBB to 9,000 and I raise him all in for just over a pot sized raise (pot before then was about 22k), again in middle position. Folds all the way around, and he calls so we go heads up. I show my Aces, he turns over Q9. He has me covered.
Flop 8 3 10
Turn [8 3 10] 9
River [8 3 10 9] 9
The guy hits runner runner trips! What can you do, eh!? The only possible play I could think of is calling the raise pre-flop but then he could have hit 2 pair if I'd limped in with a small pre-flop raise. What could I have possibly done better?
Six hours of battling poker, I was playing some of the best poker I've played to date. I took a couple of weeks off on vacation, read a tonne of books and when I got back home hit the casino. I was playing so well, probably around chip leader at the final table of a tournament.
That's when the Aces hit...
First hand, pre-flop the short stacks were shoving, naturally, with any high card they had. No one really called and they swallowed the blinds. However, on two occasions I did call the shoves. On the two occasions I had Aces.
Hand 1: The first beat.
I'm in middle position, raise with my Aces 4xBB which was around 12,000 at the time. The guy in the BB shoves for around 7k more and I call. He turns over J7 and I show him my Aces. He gets up to leave.
Flop 74J -- game over.
Hand 2: The second beat.
I've lost a couple of pots since then but still sitting with about a 50k stack UTG raises 3xBB to 9,000 and I raise him all in for just over a pot sized raise (pot before then was about 22k), again in middle position. Folds all the way around, and he calls so we go heads up. I show my Aces, he turns over Q9. He has me covered.
Flop 8 3 10
Turn [8 3 10] 9
River [8 3 10 9] 9
The guy hits runner runner trips! What can you do, eh!? The only possible play I could think of is calling the raise pre-flop but then he could have hit 2 pair if I'd limped in with a small pre-flop raise. What could I have possibly done better?
