I could have gone out an hour earlier in the same way and saved myself some time! Plus in the other tournament I played yesterday I was knocked out in the second hour when my JJ was rivered by 88 against an larger sized stack–but one that I could badly hurt–when a different river would have put me in a potentially winning position. Watch a replay of any hand played on Replay Poker. Sometimes I am a little bit cautious, because there are a limited number of MTTs on RP at an appropriate entry level, and you can’t always go out of a MTT and straight into another good game. I guess that in small stack poker, you mostly just have to go for it and take your licks when it doesn’t work out. On the other hand, if you were the player with AA, would you call my shove knowing that QQ and JJ, which were both plausible hands, were beating you? With a Q and a J on the flop, I was losing to AA, QQ, and JJ, so my shove was futile. I guess I COULD have gotten away from it, except that I had already decided that I would play aggressively for a big stack early on, and did not mind going to bed early and reading a book. After all I held blockers to his AK, but none to AA. Obviously I hoped he had AK, but no such luck. I had a very short life in a tournament last night, and yet I KNEW that opponent had AA to my KK.
