down to the last 3 - did I play it wrong?

[rong]

Hi all,

The following is the last 6 hands of a 10 man SNG, this is all of the hands once it was down to 3 players. Due to the size of the blinds and relatively even stack sizes I went by the theory that I should pretty much push with ATC and I finished 3rd.

Did I play this wrong? Should I have played more conservatively?

I had exactly the same situation on another table simultaneously and also finished 3rd in that one, I will also put the last few hands of that torney in a seperate post.

All comments most welcome.

Hand 1

saw flop | saw showdown

Button lokomotivim (4360)
BB DanAronG (7760)
Seat 7 somnus82 (2880)

Preflop: DanAronG is in the BB with T J
somnus82 raises to 2880, 1 fold, DanAronG calls 2080.

Flop (5760) 7 5 8

Turn (5760) 6

River (5760) A

DanAronG shows T J
somnus82 shows 6 6

somnus82 wins 5760 with Three of a kind, Sixs

Hand 2

saw flop | saw showdown

Seat 10 lokomotivim (4360)
SB DanAronG (4880)
BB somnus82 (5760)

Preflop: DanAronG is in the SB with 8 9
1 fold, DanAronG raises to 4880, 1 fold

DanAronG shows 8 9

DanAronG wins 5680 with High card: Nine

Hand 3

saw flop | saw showdown

Button DanAronG (5680)
SB somnus82 (4960)
BB lokomotivim (4360)

Preflop: DanAronG is on the Button with 2 9
2 folds

Hand 4

saw flop | saw showdown

Button somnus82 (4560)
SB lokomotivim (4760)
BB DanAronG (5680)

Preflop: DanAronG is in the BB with Q J
2 folds

Hand 5

saw flop | saw showdown

Button lokomotivim (4360)
SB DanAronG (6080)
BB somnus82 (4560)

Preflop: DanAronG is in the SB with 3 K
1 fold, DanAronG raises to 6080, somnus82 moves all-in for 3760.

Flop (10640) A J A

Turn (10640) J

River (10640) 4

DanAronG shows 3 K
somnus82 shows A 4

somnus82 wins 10640 with A full house, Aces and Jacks

Hand 6

saw flop | saw showdown

Button DanAronG (1520)
SB somnus82 (9120)
BB lokomotivim (4360)

Preflop: DanAronG is on the Button with 3 9
DanAronG moves all-in for 1520, 1 fold, lokomotivim calls 720.

Flop (3440) 9 Q A

Turn (3440) 4

River (3440) K

DanAronG shows 3 9
lokomotivim shows 9 Q

lokomotivim wins 3440 with Two pair, Queens and Nines with a Ace for a kicker

[notoriousnf]

I don't like the call on hand one, normally we're at best a coinflip and at worst a 70/30.
Hand 2 is okay, but maybe make your blind steal a little smaller in case you get re-popped all in.
Hand 5 fold it preflop, you have been actively blind stealing... ace high calling is going to happen a lot if you're this aggressive and not showing down cards.
Hand 6 id fold and hope the bb brings me a better hand when im at least pot invested. id say that this was a tilt shove.

[bjsaust]

Seat 10 lokomotivim (4360)
SB DanAronG (4880)
BB somnus82 (5760)

Preflop: DanAronG is in the SB with 8 9
1 fold, DanAronG raises to 4880, 1 fold

DanAronG shows 8 9

DanAronG wins 5680 with High card: Nine

Seriously, thats just retarded! Why when you want to steal blinds a lot would you go and advertise that you steal with crap?

[drmcboy]

use a converter where we can see the blind sizes

DanAronG shows

lolz

[rong]

where it says DanAronG shows - i never show, it just rep[orts it that way.

[rong]

and blind sizes were 400/800, it was due to this that I was pretty much willing to shove with anything.

[Chopper]

and blind sizes were 400/800, it was due to this that I was pretty much willing to shove with anything.

first of all, you werent critically short!! therefore, you shouldnt be willing to shove "anything." you should still be a bit selective. maybe top 40%, but not trash.

i am not calling the shorty with ATC, either, in hand one. that call of JT is pretty bad, imo.

and, look at what pushing that K3 did to your stack! i know i said in your other thread that pushing with the lead stack is generally a good thing, but here, the others are awfully close to you in stack size. i dont want to get caught with crap in my hand and lose a flip dropping me to critical levels. not ever, especially if you've been active of late.

[rong]

Thanks for all your responces, appreciate the feedback.

This torney I don't feel I played as well as I could have, too many other things to concentrate on perhaps, 4 tables is the max I can really focus on and 2 of them down to 3 players makes it a bit much for me to play optimally. Again no real reads but both players were very tight from 5 players onwards and both had negative ROI & total profit.

Here's my take on the hands:

Hand 1 - I'm the big stack with approx 50% of the chips on the table. It's the first hand of all of us being in the money and small stack pushes. I figure he's attempting a steel as he has an M of approx 2.4 and he is BB next hand which will annialate most of his stack. So I thought the TJ was a good call. In hind site I'm not sure about this one. Would like to see ICM analysis with small stack pushing say 75% of hands.

Hand 5 - I stand by pushing with Kx when I'm sb and blinds are this huge.

Hand 6 -tilted and should of waited.