Re: [ba-poker] Question about a tourney play

[Marcus Pasquarella <paqui2(deleted the rest)>]

Thanks for the responses.

If I had been in the same position and pushed all-in
with 44 and been busted by AK no I would not be
posting asking about this.  After the tourney I was
angry but I was angry at myself because I thought that
maybe I shouldn't have pushed with that hand in that
spot.  I don't get irritated when I get beat by luck
or randomness, I just want to make sure I am making
the right play for the situation.  So far the
consensus is that this is probably the play I have to
make.

Marcus





> Est 200K chips in play
> 12 players left, 10 spots pay, but 8-10 are not much
> at all.
> 
> 6 handed at my table.  I have not played a hand in
> almost 2 laps taking my stack from 19k down to 10k. 
> Blinds are 2k-1k with 500 chip ante.  So there is 6K
> in the middle pre-flop.  The last lap there has been
a
> fair number of Raise - all-fold hands.  I am UTG and
> pick up A-4 offsuit.  

Plain and simple, 40% of your present stack must go
into 
the pot over the next three hands, so you're going to
play 
one of them for all your chips.  I'd rather raise with
a weak ace six handed than take my chance on a random 
choice of the next two hands.  I think moving in with
this 
hand is the right play.  After the tournament I doubt
I 
would have had a second thought about it.

I have a question for you.  I hope you don't take
offense.
Assume for a moment that everyone folded to you in
this
hand so you won this pot uncontested.  Then let's
assume 
that three hands later you busted out with, say, TT
vs. AQ.  
After the tournament, would you have spent time
thinking about 
whether making the play with A4 was the right one? 
Think 
carefully about this.  If the answer is yes, then
fine.  If 
the answer is no, and I suspect that would be the
case, then 
why fret over it when the results were bad if you
wouldn't
reconsider your play when the results are good?  It's
the 
decision that matters, not the results.

A lot of folks seem to dwell on the hand they go bust
with.
I believe it's a good idea to think about hands you've
played
away from the table, but not because the results are
significant,
but because the hand itself is interesting.  Probably
in about 
90% of the tournaments I play, the hands I think about
after the 
tourney don't include the final hand I played.  The
final hand 
is usually a pretty easy decision so there's less to
be learned 
from it compared to other situations.



                
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