Well after the Dissapointment of being shot down in flames by Des on a recent post - i thought i"d Cheer myself up and play another NLH MTT - Which was only my second time playing NLH since the online championship disaster!
But once again - managed to cash (all be it not enough to cover my Buy in), i finished 11th out of 105 runners and probably made a bit of a mistake that lead to me being crippled!
At this point we are playing 6 handed - and are two spots away fom the final table - Heres what happened and then i"ll explain what i am thinking!
Utg +1 Rasies to 2000 (blinds are 500/1k) and he has about 2500 behind and i am on the Button with about 14k and I have :as: jh and push it all in to try to Isolate the one player who has min-rasied for half of his stack, who i have seen turn over some marginal hands to say the least, so i am confident that it is a race or I have him dominated - But i wasnt Happy when the BB - calls my All in with about 1K less than me!!
Anyway UTG +1 Has ah
, I have :as: jh and the BB has th td , with the ts in the Window on the flop and i am crippled and Go out 2 hands later with a suited K10.
The reasons i did what i did (shoving) was that i belived that i had the UTG +1 Player beat and i didnt want to smooth call and allow the blinds in cheap as this would have been a disaster and weak (plus I had had some succes in Stealing this particular BB), I was also thinking that even if i am beat by UTG +1 i"ll still have 10k and have a good shot at winning ( the chip leader at this point had 40K) and this is one of the things that i have changed in my Approach to NLH - Whats the point of playing unless your playing to win!!!!
So i Ship it and get a bit unlucky to have the BB wake up with a big hand, but i was happy enough with the way that i played and also i think that cutting down the number of hours that i am playing makes me a better player when i do play!!
Anyway - off to work now - i gotta fund my Cider/Poker habits somehow!!
Have a good day All!
Rubertoe
