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snakes4me · High Card Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 1

Well I'm not really a newbie, but I've never played in a real casino. Played lots of on-line poker some free rolls which I've placed in the money and do quite well in the sit n gos. Just sometimes in my case the best hand never winds..Hmmmm. But heres my question.

Ok its late in the tourney and there are just over 200 players left out of 27,000 players and I have about 8,500 hundred left which was below the average chip stack by maybe 4,000 chips.

I have pocket q's and raise 3 times the blind to 900 hoping to get a little action. I get 2 callers both of which have 3 times the chips I do. One guy reraises me to 1,800 and the other (who won with the aces) calls as do I. The flop is j j 4 rainbow. The guy that reraised me bets 2,400 and the other guy (again who won with ace) calls. Feeling I have the best hand (which I did) go all in with both players calling. The turn was a usless card for everyone and they both checked. Then the river is a ace and I lose. Find out neither player had squat so my point is:

Would it have been best to just go all in preflop or were they just donkeys? Calling cause they could. I feel if it were the other way around I would have folded my ace/8. Oh well thats poker. Bad beats. Best hand always loses kinda thing.

BOYNAMEDSUE · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

Welcome to the forums, snakes. I had a friend named Snake once. We had a band called the Zit Remedy with my other friend, Wheels. No, wait, that was Degrassi High. Canadian forumers will know what I'm talking about. "Everybody wants something, they'll never give up."

I think you might be off with your chip stack. Even if the tourney had 2700 players (and not 27,000) the average stack would be much more than 12,500. It would be more like 20,000. That's assuming you started with 1500 in chips. With only 8500 I would have moved all-in pre-flop, even with the reraise to 1800.

They already had 1800 chips committed, so you might have got all 3 callers anyway. Though, there a good chance only 2 would have called the extra 6700.

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