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Swinebag:
Thanks for all the comments here

firstly, I now realise my make up in the SB was very weak, and it would have been no surprise to the table if I had shoved in that spot and would have probably won the hand there and then. I had already shoved my stack twice in that orbit to get me up to the 9.4K mark so was wary of doing it a third time with such a weak hand. If I was wary then folding would have been better than making up. I just thought that 5 to 1 odds were too tempting too pass up if an ace came on the flop.

An ace did come on the flop and I genuinely thought I was ahead when I value bet it. When I got reraised all in, I was truly baffled and took a very long time before deciding to......CALL! My reasoning was that my oponent could be shoving with KJ, KT, K9, and 2 connected clubs. I also thought there was a possibility he had a better Ace than me, but would have thought he would have raised pre flop with an Ace. If he had an ace I was calling for a split pot which would have been a bad move (even worse if he had A5). 55 was also a possibility which would have crushed me.

But I also couldn"t help thinking that he had me on a weak ace or weak king and that I would fold to his reraise (which I would have done most of the time). So I went with my read on the player and the situation and made the call.

Having read all your comments, I realise this was a poor move on my part. As a lot of you said that I would still have 7K behind and the button to follow. This should have been the over riding factor. In the end, I put my tourney on the line with a very marginal holding based on a read that could have still had me crushed!! Maybe a good call in a cash game, but definitely a poor call in a tourney.

Even though it is not relevant, I"ll tell you how it panned out.....

I called

board was ac kc 5d

I had ah :3s:

he had  ad 5s

I was crushed

but.....

turn :3h:

river :3d:    :o :o :o

giving me the sickest beat I have ever inflicted and the pot. (proving that live poker is soooooooooo rigged!!)

Motivated, not to make any more mistakes, I took advantage of this huge bit of luck and took the tourney down!! :)

In hindsight, I thought my oponents limp on the button with A5o was very weak too and that caused the confusion with button raising ranges I put in this thread.

noble1:

AMRN:

--- Quote from: noble1 on November 08, 2008, 16:50:41 PM ---
Wooohooooooooooooooo Everton now 3-1 up   SAhaaaaaaaaaaaa  lol

--- End quote ---


Noble1 - generally you talk a lot of sense on here, and I like to take time to read your posts....... but that last comment did make me laugh.  Just goes to show, even people who talk sense can say stupid stuff sometimes!!

Bet you"re loving looking up and seeing RED all over the top of the league!!!!

 

bigredders:
wow back to the drawing board for me then, my reads are useless!

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