call 2 all ins from tight players early in a tourney with 76? sure, why not

[DanBarry]

http://www.myextrainfo.com/user_images/aa_vs_76.jpg

[skinski]

I can just hear the reasons now....they were sooted ! That's a tough one for you , but when I do push preflop I'm prepared for most anything to happen . That's when the game turns to no more than a gamble in my eyes.

[DanBarry]

On the bubble of the Sunday $20000 guaranteed:
http://www.myextrainfo.com/user_images/aa_vs_55.jpg

[Porkrind]

Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DanBarry]

This one doesn't really qualify as a bad beat, but I'm still going to cry myself to sleep because of it.

$2,500 Guaranteed:
http://www.myextrainfo.com/user_images/99_vs_kk_vs_aa.jpg

[Porkrind]

Text book "Cooler" hand from a very very very cold deck with an action flop.

[DanBarry]

On the bubble of the $2500 Guaranteed:
http://www.myextrainfo.com/user_images/kk_vs_22.jpg

Every tournament I enter, I hit a monster hand on the bubble, and someone sucks out on me. I don't know what the hell this guy could have been thinking. We'd been at the same table throughout the entire tournament, and I had only raised with quality cards. He had to know that AT BEST he was going to be in a coinflip against AK. He's a freaking APPT seat winner for Christ's sake! He can't be THAT unobservant.

[Porkrind]

I can't fault his call there.
Judging from the fact that it looks like you both were "On the Bubble" any pocket pair in that situation looks good. He had to do something. He was probably praying to himself that you were on an any ace push and you would miss.
His catching a set after running into your KK was just dumb "Jerry Yang" luck.:cool:

[DanBarry]

I can't fault his call there.
How can you not fault his play here? He had a healthy stack and only 2 more people needed to be eliminated before we were in the money. Why, at this point in the tournament, should he risk his tournament life on, at best, a coinflip?

He had to do something.
Yes. Sit back and wait until he's in the money. There were players who would have been all in the next time the big blind hit them. A few other players only had slightly more than twice the big blind. He would have been in the money before the blind even circled around the table to him again.

[DanBarry]

Here's the beats for tonight:

In a $2 SnG, I had AA prelop and called an all in of someone with 10's. He hit a set, of course. I didn't take a screenshot because we were on opposite ends of the table and I couldn't fit it all on the screen.

Here's in a $10 tourney, where I went from 2nd chip stack to almost all in on the next big blind:
http://www.myextrainfo.com/user_images/kk_vs_jj.jpg

[Porkrind]

I know that running into donkeys is absolutely frustrating.
Do me a favor and give us some more information surrounding the hand that will help us analyze the hand?
Buy in, stack sizes, blind levels, your reads, etc.........
Carbon's Hand Histories don't supply much.

[DangerMouse]

How can you not fault his play here? He had a healthy stack and only 2 more people needed to be eliminated before we were in the money. Why, at this point in the tournament, should he risk his tournament life on, at best, a coinflip?


Yes. Sit back and wait until he's in the money. There were players who would have been all in the next time the big blind hit them. A few other players only had slightly more than twice the big blind. He would have been in the money before the blind even circled around the table to him again.

I don`t know this player but I do know the attitude of some players. They have a cash deep or bust attitude, they go for the win and they`re not happy to just cruise into the money and get pretty much just their buy-in back. It`s a pretty good attitude actually. Those few deep finishes probably work out far more profitable than creeping into the cash regularly.

The other thing is that the bubble is a great time to accumulate chips because lots of players, especially the shorter stacks are just trying to cash.

[cerberi]

It seems the poker gods are against you.