40 person NL tourney at local club. Down to final table, 8 players left. I am chip leader but 4 of us are bunched pretty tightly with no one holding a dominating chip position.
Hand #1 On the BB, I get 10s10c. LP (his stack is approx 1/2 of mine, tight aggressive player) and button (right behind me in chip count) limp in. I raise 3xBB, both LP and button call. Flop is 10h Ks Ac. I make small bet hoping to show a little weakness so someone with A goes over top. LP obliges and raises 5 times my bet, approx 1/2 his stack, button calls, I go all in with my set. LP calls and button folds. LP turns over QcJc. Turn and river are of no consequence, his straight takes down my set of 10's.
Hand #2 (very next hand) On the SB I get AdAc. UTG bets 3000 which would put me all in. Everyone folds to me, I call and am now all in. BB only has 100 more chips so he also calls and is all in. UTG turns over AhKh. BB has 10c5c. I am in a dominating position. Flop is Qc5h6h. BB has pair of 5's and UTG has flush draw. Turn is 5s. Trips for BB now. He's also my brother in law so I don't feel bad that he will stay in tourney and I should win the bigger side pot. River is 8h. UTG catches flush and both me and my brother and law are out.
Obviously, I do not think there is anything I could do to get out of the second hand, but should I have been more careful with the the first hand? To be honest, I did not even consider QJ because I was so in love with my set this late in a tourney. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
1st hand, after flop, you might have considered going all in right there and probably drug the pot, others could have been in there with AK, or Ax, or Kx, and you don't won't to risk THEM hitting a set...it was a dangerous looking flop...
You played it ok, just a bit riskier that way, but most of the time you'd win it, the way you played it.
In tournament, you want to keep surviving and take small and medium pots, instead of risk being put out. IMHO get'em next time
Hand #1: Just tough luck there. Say you fire a bigger bet at him? He's not going away with the flopped nut straight. If you check, maybe he checks too, and you get trapped on the turn or river, rather than on the flop. Or if he bets after your check, you're still going to raise. Like I said, it's tough luck. Maybe you could have saved some, but that would have required some pretty impressive post flop play on your part.
Hand #2: Well, hand #1 screwed you here. With no ammo, you couldn't protect those aces, and sure enough, the flush draw beat you. Absolutely nothing that you could have done.
1st hand was definately the problem. with a flop that scary and no re-raise pre-flop, you have to put them on 2 face cards. shut down, maybe LP wants to slowplay the nut str8 in order to get more money in the pot from AK AQ etc. so you get another shot at the quad or the full.
if he bets a small amount, call it, if the turn doesn´t give you the best hand, you have to assume you´re beaten and you want to preserve your stack.
hand 2 couldn´t have been played any different. that was just tough luck.
