Last night was scary frustrating. We had a 9 person SNG at my place with some stronger players. We started with 2500 each so I had a lot of time to make some hands and build a stack. Missed many draws etc and was down to 2100. I called two raises with 33 and 44 because I was certain to double up if I hit in a 3 way pot. The best part of 3 way pots with my table image is if I hit, I am guaranteed to get paid. I missed both those hands but of course the other 2 players were going nuts with top pair or overpairs so for sure I was getting paid.
Down all the way to 1500 and blinds 30/60, I limped with 10Jo. 10Jo is one of those "stacking hands". I only play it when I need to double up or have a big enough stack to take chances. There was a limper in front of me, so I limp button limps and the SB raises 200 more. I never understand the weak less than pot raise out of the SB with weak hands but many players feel the need to do it. What often happens is they raise, everyone calls and they miss the flop, feel the need to continuation bet and then lose the hand when re-raised. In a tourney I do not like that play because it is a chip waster but I digress.
The flop came down 10HQCKC. Sure enough the weak preflop raiser became the weak preflop bettor and bet 300 into a pot of over 1200. With a flush draw and str8 draw on board it made no sense to bet 1/4 of the pot unless you had ACJC which is the well a miracle. So I had made my decision all my chips were going in. If they had AK, I liked my chances but the bet was so weak, 99 or 88 was more likely and a fold was in order. My plan gets foiled when the first limper beat me to it and re-raised to 1000. Well now I had a very tough decision because there was no fold equity at all and my all-in was getting called and I was not better than a cointoss however looking at the potsize, I was putting in 1200 to win over 3000 but that still was not enough. So what did I do?
I needed to decide what the other players would do if I pushed besides the re-raiser (who had to call with anything but likely had KQ or KJ because of the limp). Well its pretty easy to figure out what they will do. You just take forever to make your decision and see who gets antsy about it and who is relaxed. Well the original raiser could not wait for me to make my decision which indicated to me they must have a set or AJ. They called clock and I purposedly took every last second and folded. Boom button folds original raiser pushes all-in, re-raiser instacalls and they both turn over KQ with no clubs. I couldn't believe that is what they had but hey some people will die on 2 pair in level 3. Of course an A hit on the turn and I folded the nuts but I felt I could play with 1200.
That was really the turning point for me. I couldn't make a hand, folding AQ, A9, A6 because of action in front of me. The next hand I had A7 and pushed all-in to a limp. Got called by A2 and doubled up. I won a few small pots and the next 3 hands I played, I folded Q9 on a 924 board, I folded A10 with the AC on a 1046 board with 2 clubs, I folded A6 on a limped pot on an A45 board.
Then I raised with AQ, got re-raised, folded. Raised with 88, someone went all-in, I folded. So I was back down in the push zone with an M around 8. I was in BB in a limped pot with 7S10C. The flop came 7C8C9C and I knew all my chips were going in. They did, I got called by the SB who had 69 with no club. Despite being 65% to win, I got outdrawn. I was happy with how I went out. To have an M of 8 and get all your chips in ahead is all you can ask for.
Onto WNP on Wednesday!
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