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Bad steps..

February 18, 2008 on 12:19 am | In General |

I’ve been playing the step tournaments at Empire/Party today and I have had a bit of a bad day with 5 step 1’s played and only one 4^th place to show for it.

In the first game my AJ was all in was against AK(7^th place finish – I admit that was bad play!). In the second my KJ shove was called by A5 (7^th place again –at least this was a marginal +EV play). In third I finished 4^th but I went out with a K 10 shove as short stack against QQ (eek!). In the 4^th I pushed after the flop with an open ended draw whilst I still had a deep stack which was a critical error and in the 5^th I pushed with 44 and was up against AQ and a substantially high board saw an Ace come. This was probably my best +EV play of the day so that is about the only one where I didn’t make a mistake!

Hopefully I’ll do better in the week.