Joined: Oct '11
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So, I was sitting in this MTT, very early, only second blind level. I was on the big blind and got dealt AA. Everyone folds except guy on the small blind who goes all-in, of course I call that one! He flips over 33 and hits a 3.
Now, this leaves me with LESS then 1 big blind, heck, I didn't even have enough to cover the small blind. so I was forced all-in with any two cards the very next hand. I got some crappy low non connectors off suit cards, can't remember what they were something like 52 or 64 or whatever. Anyway, I managed to hit a full house quadrupling my stack. I then went on to triple my stack with KQs after hitting a flush.
This went on until I had a decent stack, and what do you know? I was sitting at the final table 3rd in stacks! Now, it was a sat so only 4 places payed. I managed to hold on and finish in 3rd for a nice $20 ticket
The moral of the story is: When everything feels hopeless and you have pretty much nothing left, just go all-in with what you have, take care of every opportunity and sooner then you know, you're back on top!
Joined: Aug '14
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Well this is a great comeback as it often happens on poker, although unfortunately never to me. But I would not recommend going all in all the time. As soon as your stack is big enough again start playing your normal game.
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Cheers mate yeah AA is a good hand but you can either go far with it or you can lose with it and get knockout either way this is poker as all hand has a chance to win even if they are small, cheers mate good luck and very nice come back keep it up and make some money and come brag here, it would be fun to see our fellow players thriving and making money hehe, cheers peace out and good luck once again at the tables! hehe mate!
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Thats awesome, sometimes it works out with as little as 40 chips or even less and in few games you are the biggest stack at the table
Went all in yesterday against another guy, he had pocket 10 i had pocket 9 and he won, called me an idiot and i was left with 100 chips or so, just read this story thou and said fck it wont go all in with last chips but rather wait for good spot and try to get back, managed to get back to 1600 and the guy was already sweating hard, however didnt have luck at 66 vs AQ as Q fell on river
Never give up! Its not over till its over. Awesome comebacks happen!
Joined: Oct '11
Location: Sweden
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Thanks everyone!
Yeah, sometimes those comebacks do happen and it's always nice to be on the good side of them My biggest MTT win is actually from one of those, although not as big of a comeback as here but still I think I had something like 3 or 4 BB's and half the field left, 10 minutes later, I was 3rd in chips and went on to win it So I have two of these comebacks in my resume
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Of course there is no need to say here you got lucky All of us at some point we had to go all in with useless cards. But the times we got something good out of it, cant be compared with the ones we have lost i believe
Joined: Oct '11
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Posted by Mober: Of course there is no need to say here you got lucky All of us at some point we had to go all in with useless cards. But the times we got something good out of it, cant be compared with the ones we have lost i believe
You're so right about that one! Even if poker is mainly a game of skill, there is, to some degree, luck involved. The laws of, well everything, says that you can't be lucky all the time, the same goes for being unlucky all the time. So in the long run, the skill is what separates the players!
But yeah, no skill involved in that recovery! Or well, there were some once I had a 10 BB stack so I could pick my shots a little bit but hey, I can't complain, it all went my way by the end of it
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Posted by erru9107: So, I was sitting in this MTT, very early, only second blind level. I was on the big blind and got dealt AA. Everyone folds except guy on the small blind who goes all-in, of course I call that one! He flips over 33 and hits a 3.
Now, this leaves me with LESS then 1 big blind, heck, I didn't even have enough to cover the small blind. so I was forced all-in with any two cards the very next hand. I got some crappy low non connectors off suit cards, can't remember what they were something like 52 or 64 or whatever. Anyway, I managed to hit a full house quadrupling my stack. I then went on to triple my stack with KQs after hitting a flush.
This went on until I had a decent stack, and what do you know? I was sitting at the final table 3rd in stacks! Now, it was a sat so only 4 places payed. I managed to hold on and finish in 3rd for a nice $20 ticket
The moral of the story is: When everything feels hopeless and you have pretty much nothing left, just go all-in with what you have, take care of every opportunity and sooner then you know, you're back on top!
