When you are running good...

18 left of a 70 person $50 MTT. FT pays, top 3 pays good. I have 6.5k (little above average) blinds 150/300. QQ utg + 1. Open it for 1200 all fold SB calls. Flop is K high and he leads for 1k. I make it 2. He pushed immediatelly... I called and lost to KT. Was really running good at that point both in the MTT and at ring, and had (or at least thought I had a great read that he didnt have the K)

My thought proccess:

he leads (somewhat week) = weak king/lower PP than mine.
I raise him small = I have a better King/you dont have the King.
he pushes = he is making a move on me cause I min raised (or thats what you think idiot)
I call = lets see if all the above was correct...

Mistakes done in the hand:

I should have PUSHED when he led at the pot. Adds the benefit that he can lay down his weak King.

I CALLED for all my chips. Has nothing to do the hand since I believed I was ahead but its a fundamental concept in poker: "If you are gonna go out, dont go out calling for all your chips"

Should I have gotten involved on the flop? Maybe, maybe not. But like I said I was running really good till that point

Thoughts?

Tough tough hand. And calling off your chips SUCKS! I did it last night and was horrified...

Anyways, I think I would have made a bigger raise....say 3500. Really test him on his hand and show strength. If he pushed, I would just go by my read. If you thought you were ahead(and you did).....you have to call.

usually when people push after being raised, you can put them on a pretty good hand. its an easy fold after he pushes...too bad the flop wasn't ten high.

Originally Posted by gabe

usually when people push after being raised, you can put them on a pretty good hand. its an easy fold after he pushes...too bad the flop wasn't ten high.

Yeah just some times its not that simple ABC poker. I had a read (I was wrong) for this player cause I know him and he knows me, blah blah blah, I went with it, I lost. Happened before, will happen again.

1 week ago $30 MTT (small around 100 people) 1st hand at FT blinds at 100/200. I have just almost tripled up last hand with JJ fh vs flush also busting the 11th player and my stack was 7K with average stack at 7-8 K.
Folded to me on the SB I make a steal attemt with K9 raising it up to 800 chips. BB calls flop comes J high rainbow rags. I bet 1200 he raises to 2400. I flat call him and check the turn. He thinks for a while and pushes hes remaining 3k. I CALL him with K high river is a T i think and he flips Q9. It was one of these time that YOU KNOW you have it. I coulda push the turn my self and take the pot there.

After that the table was just SOOO afraid of me that I ran it over and won.

Just saying that sometimes things are not that simple.