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Message: [QUOTE="xOneCoolHandx, post: 5173943, member: 143461"] Your final table story was the story of my night last night (and a few weeks ago when I posted this). The night before, I sat in 4 50 cent MTTs and one $1 MTT and finished ITM in all of them making 4 final tables (highest finish was 3rd). Then last night, I get into the ACR CC FR and not even 10 or 15 minutes into the game I catch aces from the SB. Made a pot sized raise which the BB and a mid position limper called. Flop comes J54. I check, BB makes 3/4 pot sized bets so I think he has Jx. Limper folds and I push (a pot-sized raise would have put me almost all in anyway). As I hoped, he called and had J10. Turn comes a jack :mad:. So, I wait the 45-ish minutes until the league game starts on PS. Not even 5 hands into the game, I catch 10 10 from UTG. I raise pot (very standard for me). Button makes a small raise not even doubling my original raise. At this point maybe the better option would have been to flat call and see a flop, but because I have experience with this player (and the hand before he made the same same raise and called an all in with A8), I did not think he was very strong and I pushed figuring that with my table image that he would realize that I did have a fairly big hand and lay his down or I would be at least a small favorite. He calls with aces (irony much?). Since I was steaming, I took a break to watch videos, post on here and do some writing and then got back on ACR. Entered a Venom and built up a pretty decent sized stack until I had QQ run into aces. Next tournament was a 50 cent MTT and once again, an early position player (that I have played against often) raises. I have AQs on the button but I flat call him because I know I can outplay him postflop 90% of the time. Flop an ace and he bets (he is a persistent CBer but also plays any ace from any position at any time so I am guessing he has an ace) knowing that he probably has an ace I raise and he pushes. I call and he DOES have an ace -- AK. Enter another 50 cent MTT and have JJ run into aces. Switch to BCP and have KK run into aces and next tournament have AK run into aces. Finally, I go back to ACR and manage to take down a win, but I took two bad beats even during that one. Fortunately, I had sizable stacks that were able to withstand the bad beats and I managed to win a couple of flips and put bad beats on a couple of other players (there was one hand that had been pot raised preflop, I meant to fold but misclicked to double his bet with Q2s, he pushed but the push was not even a full bet more, so I had to call and I managed to eek out a win) I do believe skill accounts for more than 60% of the game. Really, I believe only about 5-10% of the game is luck. But then there are days like yesterday that I would almost flip that around. HAHA [/QUOTE]

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