Hey. I am watching you now, GL

Rich

I love this guy who claims to have had A8c when i had AJc.

I knew online poker was rigged.

Whooooooo. Steal attempt gone right. I play goot.

the same way I would have played it.

I have no idea on earth why that guy didn't push allin preflop with those tens. On a scale from 1-10 I would say that push is a 20. Agree briachek?

definiitly, that guy seems to be a real passive calling station. How did he make it this far?

Your in the money, now its time to go for 1st.

My blinds are getting skipped. And I'm in the money.

Argh. Second biggest pair of the day and I run into a higher pocket pair.

Oh well. Should have made the laydown. JJ looked so damn good after 2.5hrs of looking at 92o. Thanks for sweating me guys.

That's a tough beat man, but I would have been on the edge of folding JJ. You made a real raise from UTG and he went all in therefore you had to think that 95% of the time its at best a coinflip. I can't really blame you though.

Briachek,

When I went into the tank I ran some quick math through my head. My thinking was that since I didn't know him, he had to have a good hand. TT-AA and AK. I threw out JJ so if you do the math a call getting almost 2-1 seems marginally correct. Keep in mind that if he has AKo I'm over 55% and even if he has an overpair I have 19% or so. The main thing that swayed me to call, though, was that I was 99% confident I was making the final table if I called and won, whereas if I folded I would be under the average, with blinds about to hit me, and would finish second to last table at best. My thinking is that I can turn the extra 18k into a hell of a lot more by bullying the table, since there were only 1 or 2 other big stacks.

I still don't know if it was the right call but hopefully you can see my reasoning.

i definately see the reasoning but I don't think you were out of it if you folded. You would still have 10K with the blinds hitting you which would cost you about another 2k if you didn't get a hand. If you find a hand to double up in the next round or two, you are right back in it and can make the final table. I'm not saying I would have made the laydown but while the hand was happening and I didn't know the cards, I had him on a big pocket pair and hoped you had AA, KK or would fold.

I worked out the math again just now and if we assume he would have made the play with TT, QQ, KK, AA, or AK then I am 43.5% to win the hand. In that case my call is correct. Now, I would have to think that he's less likely to make that move with TT so that knocks my percentage down a bit. Still, mathematically it should be a correct call. However, I do agree with you that I should have picked a better spot since (at the risk of sounding conceited) I considered myself to be one of the better players left in the tourney.

I'm glad though because I didn't feel to rusty. I think I'll play a $100 buyin event once or twice a week - and try to win a seat into the weekly $215.

Mg. You played very aggressive on the bubble but you only had two hands to showdown - K5 and A6. Did you raise with trash all the time? Didn't catch anything better except AJ?