Nothing of note this Sunday. I did go deep in the only thing I played on Saturday, a big event, but, you know, mess up a hand, lose half your stack, win 3 buyins instead of 30, ooooopsie. I *have* ramped up my play a little bit and am slowly learning to 6 table (this probably has something to do with why I bubbled everything on Wednesday, the other day I played a lot this week :p)

The two screwups of note that both cost me tournaments this weekend both involved misjudging raise size tells. I lost a huge pot just ITM in a $530 when someone raised only 3x after a limper, I didn't think for enough time and jammed 99 next to act; of course, he had aces. Similarly, in the Million, a 30/15 raised 4x in LMP, I had tens in the small blind, thought even a 4x size still meant a lighter hand than most people would have there and jammed a pretty nice stack. Nope, he had jacks. I probably still stack off on the ragged flop if I just call, but it's the type of thing where I should just know better than to jam pre. Most people don't think twice and it's the type of hand you can't really post on 2+2 because of how weak it looks, but the fact is that when I'm not a little bit rusty, I know better than to jam preflop in either situation, regardless. So, I'm posting this as a way to get myself to think a little more before I act.

Oh well, no big deal. I've gotten lots of good news lately and have definitely raised my confidence level and play - I just want to make sure I don't accidentally do something bad like that in the Borgata. The more time goes by between live tourneys, the more I want to play them (for no apparent reason at all.)

burningyen says

On the topic of betsizing, here’s a hand from yesterday’s Sunday Million: at the 500/1k/? level I raise to 2.5k UTG+1 with JJ and 18k left in my stack, CO (with about 50k) reraises to 10k. He’s been at the table for 6 hands, raising UTG and open-raising in the SB. I’ve played no hands in that time. IIRC the button, SB and BB all had 30-40k stacks. Fold and fist pump?

01/07/08

jofo3 says

Adanthar,

Could you take a moment to explain what you mean by a "30/15" player ?

Thanks!
jo

01/07/08

Adanthar says

yeah, probably a fist pump fold, he's got the nuts. sometimes the nuts is only AK but w/e.

30/15 = PT stats = sees 30% of flops and raises half of the hands he plays

01/07/08

burningyen says

Thanks, just wanted to make sure I wasn't being results oriented. Tired + bad cold = shove and see KK.

01/07/08

Anonymous says

I sometimes also forget to turn on that 'Switch in my head marked Think Ahead'.

01/09/08

xxrod17xx says

ill be dealing the borgata event so make sure you say whats up man!

01/11/08

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