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Thanks for the replies guys. Yeah this wasn’t a major tournament or anything, just a $120 buy-in. In fact, if it was a major tournament ($500+ buy in) I almost certainly would have folded, although I’ve never played one at that level, haha. When rents in my area are $4.5k+ per month, not much leftover for poker! Anyhow, although we know I lost, glad to hear my call wasn’t such a shitty move after all.
For me, I probably would have taken a different route pre-flop (but again, it’s just me and I don’t know if it’s proper poker strategy). Given that there were still 4 people ahead of you to act, I would’ve just called rather than raise because there’s just too many people to act. Maybe it’s too tight, but this way if you DO get raised huge or jammed on, you can get away from it pretty easily. Otherwise you end up in an awkward situation like you just did. 55 is just such a mediocre hand, that if you do get re-raised, you’re almost certainly dealing with a bigger pocket pair or at least two big overs and you’ll have a pretty good chance of losing an all-in call. In general (depends on position of course) when I get dealt those low pocket pairs I’ll call the blinds or call a small raise and hope for a set. I’ve always been really uncomfortable raising those hands except in special situations, such as when I’m about to be blinded out or only 1 or 2 players left to act in an unraised pot.
Anyways, since you did raise you then had a tough decision to make after V2 goes all in. Given the stack sizes, for me it’s definitely a fold, especially because you have one player left to act. It’s simply not worth the risk for more than 60% of your stack (or was it more with V1?). Given that you did jam however, I am very surprised that the JQ guy called this one after you went all in (and instantly no less)… he got lucky of course, but that was just pure gambling on his part. I’m pretty sure there’s no way any experienced player would have made that call. I don’t always know proper poker strategy, but I can say with near 100% certainty that he definitely made the wrong move. He did get lucky though and the rest is history.
Thanks for the reply. Good to get another perspective on this. I’ve been questioning my poker ability ever since this happened, haha! I mean I know someone always has to be knocked out first, but not only was I knocked out first, on the first hand as well. I guess it’s shocking also because it’s the first time for me. It actually was not a re-buy tournament, and was a bounty tournament as well. So given that, I had also thought that maybe he using those factors to try and get me to lay down my cards. Well, I’ll just have to chalk it up to a cooler situation as you mentioned. If this does happen again though, I’ll probably just lay it down if for no other reason than I don’t really want to take the risk of going home on the first hand! 🙂
