Illness (a yucky cold) and some other stuff have kept me off the tables consistently this past weekend, but I've been able to squeeze a few in here and there. I've played one per day the last three days - with 2 second place finishes to show for it. I had to get lucky tonight and hit the old dominated suckout (AT him, A3 me) to continue. Hell, I was there just yesterday (see previous post), so I don't feel too bad for the guy.
I also had the unique distinction of folding AK twice in this tourney. Ok, the first was an accident - I meant to click on the window above the tourney window to move it out of the way, and just as I was clicking the fold button appeared under my mouse. That hurts.
The second time was intentional, and I'm not sure at all that it was a good play. There was a maniac-type at the table, playing about half the hands, raising with half of those. He limped in and a fairly decent player at the table raised to 5x right after him. This was the second time he had done this, and I had trouble putting him on a range. His stats were reasonable - 20/8, so I had him on some type of hand. My first guess was that he either had a monster or a decent pair and I folded AKo.
Afterward, however, I thought some more about how I sometimes raise to isolate limpers, and my range opens up wider since the goal is to get into the pot vs. the limper with a better hand than he has. I might raise with KQ, for example, or AT, where I might call with those same hands in an unopened pot (in earlier positions, and not often, hopefully). The 5x bothered me a bit - did that mean "strong means strong", or did it mean "strong means weak"?
The last factor was my stack size - I had 1205, and the isolater's raise was 250. I basically had to shove or fold, I felt, and I didn't feel like I had to "guess" if he had a monster or not with 24 BB remaining in my stack. So I folded. The limper folded and I never got to see what he had.
Last note - I mention Sharkscope very often in my posts - I use it to select tables that appear to hold weak players, and of course to avoid joining tables with strong players. Then, after the tourney starts, I record each player's important sharkscope stats so that they appear in my HUD, and I also use the notes coloring feature of Full Tilt to color each player based on their skill level. I have two colors for bad (medium bad or real bad), two for good, and one for "small sample size, not sure". The criteria I use is fairly consistent but not set in stone - I might mark a player as "real bad" even if he only has a 100 tourneys played, if his average ROI is utterly abysmal.
Anyway, I saw something tonight I've never seen before - check out the table rating in the $20 tourney in the screenshot below. The 5 sharks mean that this table has lots and lots of good players on it. I've seen a few "triple icon" ratings (fishy for bad, shark for good), but 5 is my own record.
I didn't join this table.
6 months ago
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if folding AK to a 5X raise is a mistake,it;s only a small one, and if it;s a mistake, it could be a huge one. I agree with fold 4 what it;s worth. /sorry about ; for apostrophe, I;m on a cell phone/
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