Not a bad beat by any means, but since it knocked me out...

Here's the situation. 43 players left of 1,283, after being in idle the first hour, I managed to climb up as high as 3rd. But right now I'm about 30th or so, not slipping cause of getting involved, more due to no cards and blinds starting to take their toll. I was pissed cause I raised from 2000 to 6000 with K-K and got no callers, then two hands later raised from 2000 to 10,000 with Q-Q, same thing. Nice to win the blinds, but... Those were the only hands I had for an hour, then...

Blinds are 1500/3000

Player 5 has 37K, Player 6 has 32K, I have 22K, I'm player 8. Dealer is player 2.

Player # 5 makes it 9000 under the gun.

Player # 6 goes all in

I have Q-Q...I would probably have raised the 9K bet to all in, cause of my situation. If I just call that leaves me with only 13K more anyway and I don't have enough to reraise the 9K bet for information. I gotta do something at this point. But with player 6 raising, I though for a minute, figured what the hell, now if I win I triple up instead of doubling up (I figure player 5 is going to call the all in), at this point it's damn hard to lay down Q-Q, specially with me getting somewhat short-stacked. If I have more chips I just may lay Q-Q down even, cause I sure can be looking at A-A or K-K. But I could be up against J-J, T-T or maybe I can survive vs. A-K or A-Q. The table had been a little loose, some players had been even calling raises with A-x. Anyway, I am looking at about a 70K pot at least which would put me into the top 10 again. Once you make the first bubble, I say you gotta go for the final table in the lower entry fee tourneys (this was only for $5). It's only a $20-30 difference between 20th and 40th.

So I call, player 5 calls...he shows A-A, well if anyone had that I was thinking it was player 6. Nope...player 6 has A-T off...huh??? What the hell was he thinking? He's got SEVEN players to act behind him...and one of them raised under the gun...duh!

The board is a bunch of nothing and the A-A wins. That's OK, I have said before I don't mind losing with a good hand nearly as much as losing to a horrible call and then being sucked out on.

But here's what I was a little mad about. I don't know if the bonehead with A-T would have gone all in if it was folded to him, but if he did, I call and pick up a nice pot. And I am still playing.

How the hell did that idiot get to the last 50 or so anyway, lol?

Happens to me all the time in the 5 buck tourny's. Bad players get lucky all the time, and they make it to the top 50 or top 10 alot. I have had the last 5/6 AA busted to bad players in 5 buck tounry's . Every time I was in position to win.

The last and most recent was a week ago in a pot limit tourny. I was in 7th at the time with about 200 ppl left. I was 2nd to act and made it the max i could with my AA. Unfotunatly one of those lucky players was at the table & he was in 5th at the time.

he re-raised the max making about 3k+. So I'm thinking ... what can this guy have. I decide to re-rasie, remebering the last 4 AA hands I had was still in my mind . But of course he can't lay AA down. So now we are all in when he comes back at me to stuff the pot to the max

He called with a KJo. And the flop gave him a full house by 4th street.

I asked him what was he thinking.... he responded "I thought you were trying to steal the pot". I could tell he was a young player so I did not go Hellmuth on him rather gave him a few tips on not to loose the 7k chip lead he now had bu not pulling that crap again. He went on to finsh 15th.

He was just a bad player... we sat at that table for a long time before that pot was played. By that point smart players at the table knew that if I was in the pot I really had something and they got out of the way. The unlucky new blood at the table was used as a feeding frenzy for almost 50 min as we did not get busted up. We were lucky to only bust 1 player at a time for the most part.

Amen to that Pyro. It's inevitable that you will run into rookies, or even good players who play like crap in low entry fee games. However, even in the Sunday Big Game I see people do that stupid crap all the time and pull it out of their butts. The bottom line is that you have to play everyone like a pro, but expect to get your ass kicked 1 out of 10 hands by crap. Like UKGazz, I have been known to play like a crazy man on a table with people who think they have good notes on me. As a matter of fact, I just won a $55 sng by going all in with 56s after 2 players ahead of me went all in. My gut told me they were both sitting on Ax. Sure enough AK and AQ. I pulled a 5 on the flop and then they just didn't connect. Was it a dumb move? In my mind it wasn't dumb, just risky. Fine line maybe....

PokerStars Tournament #4431442, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $55.00/$5.00
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $495.00
Tournament started - 2005/01/06 - 11:52:39 (ET)
Tournament finished - 2005/01/06 - 12:37:28 (ET)
1: CaptainBlood (Fort Gratiot), $247.50 (50%)
2: BiggusD (Stockholm), $148.50 (30%)
3: rwing (Ft Lauderdale), $99.00 (20%)
4: mattsan (Haparanda),
5: MrJoppe (Linkoping),
6: pastaman098 (Fullerton),
7: wenlit (Galveston),
8: Grip'nRip (Brentwood),
9: zenmax (juno beach),
You finished in 1st place (eliminated at hand #1044732784).

71 hands played and saw flop:
- 6 times out of 14 while in small blind (42%)
- 5 times out of 14 while in big blind (35%)
- 6 times out of 43 in other positions (13%)
- a total of 17 times out of 71 (23%)

Pots won at showdown - 8 out of 11 (72%)
Pots won without showdown - 6

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