Not much to report (though this gets kinda long anyway). I didn’t really get to play much in Pakistan. I played some very low stakes no-limit with my host, but it was fake - just a teaching game. I also would have had something to say about the NYC WSOP qualifier, but Pauly stole my damn thunder by publishing Coach’s tourney wrap-ups. I can’t decide if I’m madder at Pauly or Coach. I’ll answer that by the end of the grovel. I do have Ferrari’s report, though, so I’ll publish his for the sake of completeness. He isn’t bitter; not at all.
I also played a couple of SNG’s last night, which were mostly uneventful, but why should that stop me. Input is requested on one of them, so please do read on.
I think I would only have called that raise if I was short-stacked. KJ, JJ, 10-Q, 99, or KK could all have slammed you right then, and the BB could have had any one of those (Although KK or 99 would have been unlikely). With that kind of a raise, even if he’s chasing the straight, your hand doesn’t have much likelihood of improving, and (unless you were short-stacked to begin with) you hadn’t committed enough of your chips to put yourself in the line of that kind of fire in an SNG.
Were you SB or on the button? Depending on what 25% of your stack was relative to the size of the pot/blinds I might have raised with more pre-flop, to ensure that nobody tried to tangle with what was really a pretty weak hand pre-flop.
As thrilling as it is to pair up both of your cards on the flop, your hand was never a favorite, and you probably shouldn’t have called.
By the way, I’m not aware of Ferrari ever inviting good players to his game.
You had better read more carefully then.