First post, so bear with me... (nice site btw).
I played in the APAT UK Open over the weekend at Newcastle and made the most of some mediocre hands on Day 1 to find myself with 86500 chips to take into Day 2.
This was my first 'proper' live tournament (unless you count £2 rebuys at Bolton Grosvenor!), so come the start of day 2 I was pretty nervous about what was to come. There was 24 runners left with the payout starting at 21st.
2nd hand of the day with the blinds 5000/10000 I pick up:
on the button.
Action:
1st position : Fold
2nd: Raise to 50k (This guy had about 135k and had played pretty loose from what I could see - but I hadn't been at the table with him long)
3rd: Fold
4th: Fold
5th: Fold
Me: All in for 81500 (I was small blind the previous hand)
SB: Fold
BB: Fold
2nd Position (Gent called David Groom) called my all in.... shows
Flop comes:
Turn:
River:
And i'm off home in 24th........ I guess I just want reassuring I did the right thing?? I wasn't gonna fold QQ, his raise smelled of a small pair or AK, AQ (I thought 5 times the big blind was too big for AA or KK). At this point in the tournament blinds were being stolen at every opportunity - granted he was in early position to be stealing blinds.
Perhaps I should've just flat called, then pushed my chips in after the flop if he didn't raise??? Would that have got him off AK?
What do you guys think?
Also - big thanks to everyone who organised the tournament, it was a great event and I met some top people. Particular thanks to Jackie and Trev (you know who you are) who were cheering me on - shame I didn't last a bit longer on day2!
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