Luton £300 +1rebuy/add on

[snoopy1239]

I think you let yourself go too short and shouldn't have ended up in this predicament.

I would have pushed at an earlier point when I had enough chips to make my opponents fold.

I'm not too keen on leaving it to an all-in call with live (hopefully) cards.

[Royal Flush]

I lasted a lot longer than most people would have done in that position

Thats the problem, you were trying to survive rather than get some chips!

[londonpokergirl]

you're missing the point of Richard raising almost every hand,  if i'm gonna take him on, i need half a hand, with which I wasn't getting

Anyway the hand analysis was about was 24 a good call

not about how Iplayed to get to final 10!

[Royal Flush]

Fair do's the 24 was fine, it's just a situation you could have avoided. I am not saying tangle with Richard, i am saying pick an un-opened pot.

That way when you push your 10k the most likey situation is that evreyone passes and the BB calls. Your 10k is then in a 24k pot against a random hand, rather than a 22k pot against a selected hand.

Sometimes you will get a fold around (big mistake but it happens)

And then the final scenario when someone isolates with a re-raise, you get it headsup for 10k in a 26k pot. Even possible someone calls your bet then fold to the isolating raise, 36k!!!

[londonpokergirl]

Fair do's the 24 was fine, it's just a situation you could have avoided. I am not saying tangle with Richard, i am saying pick an un-opened pot.

That way when you push your 10k the most likey situation is that evreyone passes and the BB calls. Your 10k is then in a 24k pot against a random hand, rather than a 22k pot against a selected hand.

Sometimes you will get a fold around (big mistake but it happens)

And then the final scenario when someone isolates with a re-raise, you get it headsup for 10k in a 26k pot. Even possible someone calls your bet then fold to the isolating raise, 36k!!!

completely agree, however there never was an unopened pot    i was seriously working hard to double up, just never got a real opportunity, and never saw an ace or a king in last hour  but feel that I played as well as I could do

[Royal Flush]

Fair do's the 24 was fine, it's just a situation you could have avoided. I am not saying tangle with Richard, i am saying pick an un-opened pot.

That way when you push your 10k the most likey situation is that evreyone passes and the BB calls. Your 10k is then in a 24k pot against a random hand, rather than a 22k pot against a selected hand.

Sometimes you will get a fold around (big mistake but it happens)

And then the final scenario when someone isolates with a re-raise, you get it headsup for 10k in a 26k pot. Even possible someone calls your bet then fold to the isolating raise, 36k!!!

completely agree, however there never was an unopened pot    i was seriously working hard to double up, just never got a real opportunity, and never saw an ace or a king in last hour  but feel that I played as well as I could do

Someone raised before you when you were UTG? 

Still well done.

[londonpokergirl]

Fair do's the 24 was fine, it's just a situation you could have avoided. I am not saying tangle with Richard, i am saying pick an un-opened pot.

That way when you push your 10k the most likey situation is that evreyone passes and the BB calls. Your 10k is then in a 24k pot against a random hand, rather than a 22k pot against a selected hand.

Sometimes you will get a fold around (big mistake but it happens)

And then the final scenario when someone isolates with a re-raise, you get it headsup for 10k in a 26k pot. Even possible someone calls your bet then fold to the isolating raise, 36k!!!

completely agree, however there never was an unopened pot    i was seriously working hard to double up, just never got a real opportunity, and never saw an ace or a king in last hour  but feel that I played as well as I could do

Someone raised before you when you were UTG? 

Still well done.

as i said i folded 8 2 UTG

[Royal Flush]

What about the round before?

[action man]

I think you let yourself go too short and shouldn't have ended up in this predicament.

I would have pushed at an earlier point when I had enough chips to make my opponents fold.

I'm not too keen on leaving it to an all-in call with live (hopefully) cards.

i don't like this statement, mel could have lost as big pot and been gifted this many chips back!!  for what its worth, i believe with 4k invested and 10k back (and i have told mel the same) i would have waited for the next hand(if it came) at least and if not,  pushed all in utg, i completely understand the play mel made but i like to push, even if next hand u have K-high vs the bb, u are favourite (blind) to have the best of it. i think its a very subjective hand analysis where nobody can be proven right... well done for playing well all week, rick

[Royal Flush]

I think i have misread this, i thought it was 10.5k total, not 4k+10.5k