My biggest tournament so far - and a new record!

[Mr_Nutflush1]

Hi guys,

I just want to tell you about last sunday (november 30th) when I was playin the Poker Stars Million Dollar Turbotakedown!

Well...actually I want to whine about it. ^^

When you ever feel unlucky about a tournament bust out, imagine this:

You are done buying christmas presents with your amazon gift certificates and have well over 5k FPP left in your account and all out of sudden you decide to give this great 1 Million$ price pool event a shot, that will start in 3 days. You register and are exited like hell to play a tournament with a buy-in worth approximately 70$, a huge price pool and several Poker Stars Pros, your first real big tournament.

After the 3 days of looking forward to this epic event it's finally time and you sit down, get dealt in on the BTN and first hand you see is AA!

As you probably have guessed bye now is I got fucked up in the very first hand of the tournament, gettin it in against the SB on a draw heavy flop, ending with an A-5 straight getting crushed by the 3-7 straight.
This is the first time I ever busted out of a tournament on the first hand, the hand was AA AND it was the most expensive an biggest tournament I ever played in. I played the hand like an idiot and I probably deserved what happend, but honestly, can you beat this?

[dansiek]

i jst push AA preflop if dealt first hand
tactic always works lol. people think omg he must be doing this with junk i call.

[R8tme]

unlucky, but as you said you played it bad. Just learn a lesson, and understand that tourney is different from cash games. and if in cash games you can sometims slowplay, in tourney if you see big danger, push or fold.

[ShadesAA]

wow , i have no words .. that just sucks

[Mr_Nutflush1]

Originally Posted by R8tme

unlucky, but as you said you played it bad. Just learn a lesson, and understand that tourney is different from cash games. and if in cash games you can sometims slowplay, in tourney if you see big danger, push or fold.

Bad advice overall. Generalizing like this is the wrong path to learn the game imo. there are situations where you can slowplay in a tournament, the smooth call is a tool you need to have in your arsenal and pushing in marinal situations isn't the key to success (as could be learned here).
This situation had nothing to do with slowplaying, but to overplaying a hand in a spot where simply folding (on the turn) and staying alive would've been the better play. As 4000 ppl get paid in this tournament, griding it up again to ITM wouldn't have been too too difficult.
And as I play tourneys and cash both on a regular basis, i do understand the difference quite well, I just blacked out here and took a bad line, that's all.

Pushing AA when getting it dealt as first hand isn't something I would do. It's wasting a good hand imo. If the player field is expected to be a little bit better it's even crazier and has lesser value than in a typical small-buy-in tournament.

[dansiek]

yeah but theres bound to be one fish at ur table who qualified through some 10 fpp sat.