Check out this hand from a Poker Stars 27 person Sit N Go.

Only 5 players left at the table as we’re waiting for one more person to be knocked out so we can sort out the final table.

Seat 2: Lassiter (4510 in chips)
Seat 4: richie6 (2740 in chips)
Seat 5: Big Weck (1400 in chips)
Seat 6: wiredawg (6055 in chips)
Seat 7: teddybear51 (7065 in chips)
teddybear51: posts small blind 75

Lassiter: posts big blind 150

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Lassiter
A A richie6: calls 150
Big Weck: folds
wiredawg: raises 300 to 450
teddybear51: folds
Lassiter: raises 600 to 1050
richie6: folds
wiredawg: calls 600

*** FLOP ***
J T K Lassiter: bets 750
wiredawg: raises 2700 to 3450
Lassiter: raises 10 to 3460 and is all-in
wiredawg: calls 10

*** TURN ***
2 *** RIVER ***
3 *** SHOW DOWN ***
Lassiter: shows
A A (a pair of Aces)
wiredawg: shows
J K (two pair, Kings and Jacks)

Again now that I look back, I probably should have realized Wiredawg had something. On the other hand I had reraised Wiredawg, how did he ever call me with only JK off suit? Probably a bad play on his part pre-flop.

Of course once we saw the flop Wiredawg had to know he had a good chance. I thought my aces were top pair, and if they weren’t a Q would make my straight, I also had an outside option for runner runner spades… I should have payed attention to his betting patterns better and realized he might have two high cards like KK or JJ. In fact I probably should have put him on JJ and made a value bet after the flop. If he raised, I could fold knowing that I was right and he in fact had trip Jacks.

The point is I thought I had a good hand with my aces. Maybe I should have gone all in pre-flop. Thats when my odds were best. After the flop I should have realized there were a lot of hands that my opponent might have that could beat me. KK, JJ, 1010. I didn’t think he could possibly have played a KJ that aggressively preflop! Oh well.

During this hand the 10th player was knocked out and at the time I was knocked out new players were being added to our table. So technically I made the final table and went out in 9th place.

This one really dissappointed me.
- Fittsy

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