I played pretty well today (better than in the Shootout where I made the final table) but I made a couple costly mistakes.
Mistake #1: I had recently been moved to a new table. I had about 12k in chips with the blinds at 200-400-50. A big stack who appeared to be fairly aggressive raised from the hijack to 1.1k and I found A
9 in the small blind. I reraised to 3.5k and he shoved in. I really gave him room to make a move here with or without a hand. I should have called or folded instead of raising.
Mistake #2: I had 13.8k with the blinds at 400-800-100. It was folded to me in the cutoff where I looked at pocket fours. The button folded out of turn while I thought about what to do. Steve Danneman in the small blind had about 11k and the BB had me covered by about 1k. Four of the five pros I talked to said within ten seconds that the right play here is to push all-in. I stupidly made it 2k and the BB quickly made it 5.5k. I was really confident he had crap and moved in quickly. He didn't like it but made a pot-odds call with A7 off and I lost on a board of 10857A.
You won't see ZeeJustin or TheWacoKidd make mistakes like these. Today it cost me.
