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El Stuntman

question for the tournament playas: presented as the following scenario

blinds 600/1200, 25 players left in a live tournie (small buy-in). top 6 paid.

I have 10k in chips so very short.

My table has just broken and I've been moved to one where I only know two of the players. Both good players. Maybe 2 orbits have gone by.

My SB.

UTG (seems awful) limps for 1200, has ~20k behind. Playing most hands.
MP limper (also bad). ~15k behind

The BB is a good player and has a massive stack.

I decide this is a good spot to make a move to increase my stack by almost 40%. Action comes around to me, I take a cursory look at my cards (64o) and immediately announce all-in and shove my chips over the line. BB looks suspicious but folds. UTG and MP both fold after minor dwell-ups.

Pot shipped to me.

I show the 64o.

Obv. this is stupid under most scenarios - can this be justified to establish image at a table of generally poor tournament players?
Thoughts??? Am I just a donkey?

ianmc38

Stupid IMO.

El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

Stupid IMO.

yeah, that's what I thought too. Head was in a strange place that night!

ianmc38

El Stuntman wrote:

yeah, that's what I thought too. Head was in a strange place that night!

I've done it before too. One of those unavoidbale brain farts we all have at times then regret later on.

El Stuntman

ianmc38 wrote:

I've done it before too. One of those unavoidbale brain farts we all have at times then regret later on.

yeah, I've been meaning to get back into live tournie play but am very aware that the tight, predictable style which I employ in cash games doesn not cut the mustard in tournies where you need to employ a bit more creativity. Anyway I've been doing quite a bit of research into information asymmetry (non-poker related) and somewhere persuaded myself that this would be a nice move against a table of unknowns as I should get called v light subsequently.

Didn't work as I put my stack over the line 5 more times before my exit hand without a call...AA, KK twice, TT, AK

bah humbug

califano

I'd never want to do this when under average. Only time i'd consider it is if i had a massive tank and i wanted players to think im a little bit whehay but after showing id be planning to player tighter and wait for a good hand next time which i could afford to wait for but with about 10bb you cant really wait for a hand and you dont really want someone to look you up.

El Stuntman

rounders123 wrote:

I'd never want to do this when under average. Only time i'd consider it is if i had a massive tank and i wanted players to think im a little bit whehay but after showing id be planning to player tighter and wait for a good hand next time which i could afford to wait for but with about 10bb you cant really wait for a hand and you dont really want someone to look you up.

yeah, I forgot the bit about having a massive tank!

ah well, all the other factors were in place:

-in the blinds
-multiple limpers
-largely unknown opponents

I think the only thing we can take out of this is that your average player pays no attention to image!

califano

El Stuntman wrote:

yeah, I forgot the bit about having a massive tank!

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lol getting the tank in the first place is the thing i suppose:D .

Flushdraw

El Stuntman wrote:

question for the tournament playas: presented as the following scenario

blinds 600/1200, 25 players left in a live tournie (small buy-in). top 6 paid.

I have 10k in chips so very short.

My table has just broken and I've been moved to one where I only know two of the players. Both good players. Maybe 2 orbits have gone by.

My SB.

UTG (seems awful) limps for 1200, has ~20k behind. Playing most hands.
MP limper (also bad). ~15k behind

The BB is a good player and has a massive stack.

I decide this is a good spot to make a move to increase my stack by almost 40%. Action comes around to me, I take a cursory look at my cards (64o) and immediately announce all-in and shove my chips over the line. BB looks suspicious but folds. UTG and MP both fold after minor dwell-ups.

Pot shipped to me.

I show the 64o.

Obv. this is stupid under most scenarios - can this be justified to establish image at a table of generally poor tournament players?
Thoughts??? Am I just a donkey?

It was a nice bet. You got some nice dead money in the pot from the serial limpers but dont forget, just before you showed, you also said "nice folds lads!"

Personally, i dont think it was too bad showing this. A couple of donkeys had huge tanks and you need a double up. If you could find, AK or AQ and pull the same move again, 1 of them would have called you with A8 or some other rubbish like that.