My first live MTT Casino Tournament

jaeh00d · #1 07-31-06, 12:53 AM

Well i had been looking to get into this tourney for a while. Its a 45 dollar buy in, with anywhere from 45 - 100+ people. Turns out we had 97 people today, 10 tables. Started out with 1,500 in chips and blinds already at 50 - 100, ( i thought that was outrageous and way too high to start, 15X BB to start.) Turns out the players were exactly as i thought, Half drunk, rich, no skilled poker playing cubans ( im cuban too guys, no offense to anyone ) Blinds would then raise (double) every 15 - 20 mins it seemed ) I began playing very tight in the beginning stages and was in the big blind with 72s and got to see a great flop of 772 to the small blinds 22..poor guy. So i then doubled up around the 7 or 8th hand of the tourney. Turns out the entire final table paid out. Sitting at the second to last table (last 16 players, 2 hours later.) I am in the BB with AQs. First position limps, folds all around to the SB who then goes all in for 2,200 chips ( blinds 800 - 1600 .) My read tells me the SB is going in with garbage some desperation move to double up, So i then come over the top and re raise to 6,800 chips. The limper instantly calls and flop comes A 10 4 rainbow. I then instantly go all in for my remaining 3,700 chips and he instantly calls.

he shows JQos ( correct read on my behalf )

desperate SB shows 56os

flop : A 10 4 RAINBOW

turn : 10

river : K.... dickhead got broadway!

so i got sucked out in my first live tourney...lol. It kinda left a shitty taste in my mouth. What bothered me is he then looked at me after and said to me in spanish, " I had to call because I thought you were making a move on me ."

He committed half of his chips pre flop and then some more with a JQos and spiked the miracle three outer on the river. wow... it kinda hurt.

My question is.... was i wrong here by raising only so much, and not completely re-raising all in since i was positive I had him beat with AQs. Did i set myself up for error by only raising 3 times the SB's small raise. I dont think i gave him that great of pot odds to call, maybe i did I'm not sure. The thing is he says that he thought i was making a move on him, that kinda pisses me off because i felt that was a way for him to cover up since he knew he got extremely lucky. I played tight throughout the entire tourney, from what they saw, I did steal two pots with 83os, but that was never shown. So i think it was kind of a donkey call, he called my raise "INSTANTLY WITH A RAISE AND RE RAISE behind of him." You guys tell me was there any other way i could have changed my play here. I am 100 hundred percent sure by my reads there is no way i do not raise this pot at all. But what really pissed me off is his call after the flop with just a 3 outer to get his straight and hitting on the river.

All input is appreciated guys thank you

also average chip stack at that time was a little higher than me, but i was pretty much an average stack there...with blinds increasing to 900-1800 in approx 4 mins

Reel Deal · #2 07-31-06, 01:10 AM

I hate that structure... 15BB to start is a bingo game. They do the same thing at the local card room here. With that structure and the juice they charge, I never go down there anymore.

jaeh00d · #3 07-31-06, 01:15 AM

yea i know but for 45 dollars, the pay out of over 1,500 is outrageous. i know what you mean though, the house has the advantage because they can get so many of those down throughout a day. I fell though that with a good structure i could easily cash in one of those tournaments. Not being that I am this world class player but, just how bad these players really are. Guys you really wanna make some money come down to the house games here of these wealthy cuban politicians...lol

I fell though 16th out of 97 isnt so bad for my first try. another thing i noted i called out of the blinds only 19% percent of time, is that way too tight?

JDMcNugent7 · #4 07-31-06, 02:18 AM

did u take notes during it or something? how do u know 19%.

anyway, ur play seemed perfectly fine to me, and its pretty hard to tell if 19% is too tight when we have no idea how much it is u would have had to call. pretty decent finish tho, take the next one down.

jaeh00d · #5 07-31-06, 02:24 AM

yea i did take notes throughout the tournament... i might be missing something, but i really dont understand your question there JD...

Akverno · #6 07-31-06, 02:55 AM

It'd be really cool if you tell me that this tournament was at the palm beach kennel club. I used to play there occasionaly.

eejit101 · #7 07-31-06, 03:03 AM

the AQ hand i reraise all in PF to try and isolate here, try and get it HU against the weak guy, get the limper out of the way. AQ is a much better HU hand. PLus if u lose, it was only 600 to call. not much of a difference. The flop play was fine, you got buggered bad.

16th/97 is nice!

Those blind structures are amazing. Sound like my home game SnGs, 5 -10 people, 5 hand levels, 25-50 start, 2k chips, double each time to a 800/1600max

jaeh00d · #8 07-31-06, 03:24 AM

no its actually at miccossuke here in miami.

jaeh00d · #9 07-31-06, 03:28 AM

well like i said by his comment he thought i was trying to bully him i think he would have called regardless with his measely queen high, had i pushed the extra 3,700 all in pre-flop. The reason why he got so many chips is he cracked a player on the table next to us earlier in the day with a K10s vs the other guys KK. But you never know i might have actually final tabled it had I just managed to go in for the extra 3,700.

I just think this was a guy that just got really lucky to even get so far, i guess a tournament with such a fucked up blinds structure benefits this type of player.