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Originally Posted by The Poker Don  By the way, kind of perplexing that so many people are analyzing the hand so deeply and taking such strong stands with virtually none of the salient information. What kind of tournament was it? What were the stacks? What were the other players styles? What was your table image? What were the blinds? The list goes on. It is these factors that decide whether you should have called or folded. Without them being taken into consideration any advice you might get from this forum is essentially useless. |
I agree. This goes along with my point that watching poker on TV is no way to learn how to play well. A right or wrong move is dependent on A LOT of factors, but I know that I did the right thing and I would have done it again. The guy who pushed barely had me covered, but together we had 80% of the chips at the table. The blinds were high enough that both short stacked players were dependent on luck. This guy was the UTG and I was button (4 handed). I assumed that since the small blind and big blind had most of their chips in, at least one of them would call and there would be a decent chance 3 of us would be free-rolling. I assumed wrong, as the big blind incorrectly folded with a little more than 1/3 of his chips in the pot.
They say you should always play to win and that sometimes means not worrying about who has a short-stack or who has a deep stack. You just are supposed to play your cards. In this case however, I was not even willing to put my tournament life at risk if he had flipped his cards and showed me AK, AQ, or KQ. I would have been reluctant, but probably called if he had showed AJ, KJ or QJ, but I'm sure I would call there.
The point is that sometimes you just have to break the "rules" and play your game. Many people would say I made a bad fold, but it just didn't feel right and I knew that folding would get me to the next hand and the next hand was likely going to be the hand that put me in the money. It was by the way, and I knocked out a SS with A7 over 33.)