I got a hand from a subscriber who was in this $10 multi-table poker tournament. He wanted to know if he could get away from the hand, which was in the late stages and looks to be 3 or 4 tables left. So it was getting close to the final table and some big money. This is how he described it:
Posted in the TournamentIndicatorFourm> So it’s Sunday morning I’m sitting in the library (bathroom) reading a couple of pages of a Christmas present I got from my wife “The Theory of Poker” by David Sklansky. To say this book is dry is like saying the Sahara Desert is wet. Anyway I come across the Fundamental Theorem of Poker in Chapter 3.
I am quitting online poker and becoming a salesperson in an upscale womens shoe store.
After a month of relentless, horrendous, and simply preposterous beats in online poker tournaments at Full Tilt, I have decided to take up a new career.
Ok you're probably going to say in this case that I had such a strong hand it's really an easy thing to do, but that doesn't necessarily make it the right thing to do unless you can put your opponent on a resonaby competitive hand that you figure he is going to have a hrad tim folding.
Folding AK in the Midnight Madness Poker Tournament.
This is a tough hand from the early stages of the Midnight Madness poker tournament at Full Tilt Poker. Playing AK can be tough, but on a good flop you are usually going to chip up. I had a good flop in this hand, but a surprise bet by my opponent made me think twice if I was ahead. Here it is >
Is this the right shove? I think it is, because MOST times I am just going to steal the blinds here, but NOT this time. Would you do the same at a final table with a few thousand bucks on the line?