Mr. Brownstone
Footballguy
Larry,yes, you are a heavy favorite... but it isn't garunteed, bad beats happened, and if you want to win more often in tourneys than lose, going all-in is not a good plan of action...Because you are a heavy favorite to have the same decision with $30K.no, I think you should bet and raise, but why in the world would you go all-in with 15,000 chips early in a tournament?Larry subscribes to the call down to the river, check-fold theory of poker, popularized by Earl "The Donkey" Hermdorf in the late '70s.I said that a bit wrong...huh?but you can't get a bad beat if you don't go all-in...If you aren't willing to put all your money in the middle preflop with AA then you shouldn't be playing poker.I realize I'm not a poker pro...I played in the ME last year and went out at the end of day one after 14 hours and let me tell you, it is brutal. My brain was competely fried and my body was just exhausted. The weird part is that even though you are so tired, you can't fall asleep. I just kept replaying hands in my head.great job.just making it out of the first day is really an accomplishment. numerous pros are out, including hellmuth and gavin smith.
i can't imagine what it must have been like to sit there for 15 hours ... what was that aspect of it actually like?
I decided to just play the side games this year as I just don't have the stamina for multiple 14+ hour days. Unless you get super lucky, like you have to multiple times in a field this large, the side games are more profitable anyway. getting it all in with AA vs. KK preflop and then having a K hit on the river to knock you out after 14 hours just sucks. You can be playing the best poker of your life, but in a field this large, you have to win nearly every race to make it.
people ask me how tiring could it be just sitting there playing cards, but man you have no idea how grueling it actually is until you do it yourself.
but maybe the key is not to go all in that much... don't bet most of your stack until very late, and even if you lose brutal hands like AA vs. KK, you'll still be in at the end...
you can't get eliminated on a bad beat if you don't go all in on hands like that... It especially sucks when you have a decent stack... day one, Main Event, you have 15,000 chips and lose ALL OF THEM on a bad beat... that sucks, but it wouldn't have happened had you not gone all-in...
You might want to stick to Bocce Ball.