[quote:b04da8ceff="mickeyc"]So I bubbled the tournament at Shawn's yesterday and I can't stop thinking about the hand that crippled me. I got different opinions from different people at the table after it happened but here's how the hand went down.
7 people left blinds at 1500/3000, 200 ante
The 3 people involved in the hand:
Brett- approx. 30,000
Me- approx. 67,000
CrownNSeven- approx. 58,000
Folds around to the cutoff where Brett (my buddy/guest) raises to 9,000. I'm in the SB with K :spade: Q :spade: . I call. CrownnSeven is in the BB and reraises to 18,000 total. Brett folds. Its another 9,000 for me to call so I call.
Flop comes Q :club: 10 :club: 6 :diamond:
I check and Crown shoves for a little over 40,000. I tried getting a read on him but didn't come away with much. I let him know I had a queen. He struck me as being a little bit weak, but he really wasn't giving much away. After a minute or two I made the call. Of course he's got K :club: K :diamond: and I brick out and bust on the bubble a few hands later.
I'm not going to try and justify my call to make myself feel like I played the hand okay and there was just nothing I could have done. I am so pissed off that I bubbled this tournament for the second straight year after sitting pretty with almost 70k in chips. If anyone wants to offer any opinions I'm up for it. Obviously folding preflop would have worked out beautifully. Constructive criticism is encouraged.[/quote:b04da8ceff]
in that hand i missread crowns hand i thought he had JJ or 99 or something to that effect mainly cause of his push on the flop. for that matter though when you called/were considering a call i thought you had A-Q.
once you got in the hand its hard to get away from it ... like you said folding is an option preflop... but what about raising once brett raised...
in other words if you raise him it forces crown to more clearly define his hand. brett could have been raising with anytwo tring to steal... you had a decent hand and could have initiated a resteal with a raise to like 20-25k. at that point crown would have had to really define his hand and you could have then folded preflop saving your self some money... but all that is in hindsite....
i think i would have f'd up on that hand just like you did.
its gonna happen... and you have to take chances in tournaments.
