Online Poker Forum - Not necessarily a bad beat...but a reckless play???

byamamoto1 · Bay Area Bidness Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 2361

I was playing in a $5 buy in tournament and over 350 people playing. the bubble was at around 40 and there were approx. 48 people left. my chip stack was a little above average at about 9,000. now with that said on to the hand. the blinds were about 400/800. i'm two spots away from UTG and i find 9-9. player infront on me limps and I decide to limp as well. one spot away from button raises makes it 2,000 to go, I call as well as the player in front of me. now the flop comes 9c-4c-5d. I hit my set. player before me bets out 5000 into the 6,000 pot. i reraise all-in making it 7,000. the original raiser calls my raise and the bettor also calls. next card is a 6s. the first bettor goes all in for 7,000. the original raiser calls. cards flip over and goes like this: bettor- 6s6h, me 9-9, raiser AcQc. river comes and brings a 10c and the raiser wins a giant pot, hitting his flush, making him the new chip leader in the tourney.

Now i realize this wasn't a horrible beat as he had outs and a decent drawing hand, but wasn't this a risky play? first off he had two players call his raise, granted that we limped from early position. next on the flop he has a player make a substatial bet on the flop, then raised all-in by another player. judging from his position if he were to play, he'd most likely be facing another bet of 6,000 which the the original better would commit to, since the bettor had already put more than 2/3rds of his stack in the pot already. wouldn't an observant player most likely put at least one of the opponents on a set esp with two limpers? If he would have lost this pot he would have been crippled and had maybe 4,000 chips left. if he would have folded after the flop he would have around 15,000 in chips and been in mayb the top 15 in chips, with only about 7 players from the bubble. was this a reckless play or am i just steaming about being "unlucky"?

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