How/why do they make these calls???

I've taken about as much of this as I can stand. I could understand this call if I had shown down some weak holdings prior. But I hadn't. He's was defending his blind is the answer I expect to hear from some of you. Well pffffffffff, what BS
*********** # 1 **************
PokerStars Game #30030982052: Tournament #176386921, $3.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2009/07/02 18:43:21 ET
Table '176386921 1' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 2: asdf2000 (7475 in chips)
Seat 4: skeltor (2990 in chips)
Seat 5: KreedH2o (3480 in chips)
Seat 6: gargamel01 (1450 in chips)
Seat 8: savage6970 (4215 in chips)
Seat 9: Satori99 (4735 in chips)
asdf2000: posts the ante 50
skeltor: posts the ante 50
KreedH2o: posts the ante 50
gargamel01: posts the ante 50
savage6970: posts the ante 50
Satori99: posts the ante 50
Satori99: posts small blind 400
asdf2000: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to savage6970 [Ac 4c]
skeltor: folds
KreedH2o: folds
gargamel01: folds
savage6970: raises 3365 to 4165 and is all-in
Satori99: folds
asdf2000: calls 3365
*** FLOP *** [Tc 2h 6h]
*** TURN *** [Tc 2h 6h] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [Tc 2h 6h Td] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
asdf2000: shows [Th Kd] (three of a kind, Tens)
savage6970: shows [Ac 4c] (a pair of Tens)
asdf2000 collected 9030 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9030 | Rake 0
Board [Tc 2h 6h Td 8d]
Seat 2: asdf2000 (big blind) showed [Th Kd] and won (9030) with three of a kind, Tens
Seat 4: skeltor folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: KreedH2o folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: gargamel01 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: savage6970 (button) showed [Ac 4c] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 9: Satori99 (small blind) folded before Flop
savage6970 HH.zip

__________________
Some you win, and some you lose, and the winners all grin, and the losers say....
...Deal the cards again, oh won't you deal the cards again.

Part time DONK!!!

Is this a double or nothing why are the stack sizes so small at level 10.

Only 67,500 chips in play, most were on the other table I guess. I attached my HH for whole game. Is there something wrong with my table image?

__________________
Some you win, and some you lose, and the winners all grin, and the losers say....
...Deal the cards again, oh won't you deal the cards again.

Part time DONK!!!

Savage, I didn't go through the HH, but I know exactly what he was thinking when he did it. He was thinking because you shoved on the button instead of raising that you were doing it with ATC. In his opinion, he was getting almost 2-1 with a hand he thinks has a good chance of being ahead.

I can say with certainty that he's either playing to win the tourney or not thinking about the prize money at all

__________________


Hey batter batter batter...

I was on a blinds steal and had the same mindset. Win or nothing. So I got what I wanted I guess!

__________________
Some you win, and some you lose, and the winners all grin, and the losers say....
...Deal the cards again, oh won't you deal the cards again.

Part time DONK!!!

Savage, there is really nothing you could have done here but pray you hit. Everyone at this table has an M that's less than 5 so truthfully, everyone should have been shoving with any two decent cards.

For whatever reason, your whole table is short-stacked and was really going to be just a battle of who hits what cards and when. In this case, you didn't. Tough break but go get 'em next time.

__________________
"Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes" - Latin for "Who will guard the guards" from one of my favorite books, Digital Fortress by Dan Brown my favorite author of all time.

Visit my own blog: www.nightmarepoker.blogspot.com

Oops... Double post

__________________
"Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes" - Latin for "Who will guard the guards" from one of my favorite books, Digital Fortress by Dan Brown my favorite author of all time.

Visit my own blog: www.nightmarepoker.blogspot.com

ultimately some people are happy to get a roll of the dice to determine whether they double up or not. 30-60% all are fine to them. If you had a low pp and were stealing the pot then he has even chance, if you have aq he has ok chances.

The other thing is that whilst I think his call was poor he might have seen you raise one other time and it stood out and took your play as pot stealing. The stakes have already got quite high.

Thing is though you were not a huge favorite on the hand as you never will be if someone calls you with a baby suited ace. This isnt critising your play but you are going to get called sometimes and you will lose sometimes to slightly inferior holdings. I find when i play enough quality poker then I forget about the bad beats and just watch my bankroll increase. As long as you are going into situations with the best of it the profits will come and the frustrations will lessen. you can be sucked out in 4 tourneys and then win the next one and come second in the one after that and it is soon all forgotten.