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Message: [QUOTE="starfall, post: 401026, member: 7551"] Sometimes you just haven't a hope in hell of getting anywhere in a Limit Holdem tournament, especially a freeroll. First hand I play is pocket Aces. Capped betting, and they get cracked by Pocket Sixes flopping a full house (the player was ultra-aggressive so I didn't necessarily put them on anything, but when they capped the flop I just called and it only cost one big bet to show down). Next up, Pocket Two's. See the flop, with loose, aggressive players this would get paid off. Miss, and fold. Then Pocket Queens. Another decent hand. Cap the pre-flop betting (someone else would cap it otherwise, not that the tighest player at the table raising actually scares off many people anyway). Flop includes an Ace, and someone bets and other player raises, so I know I'm now behind and fold. Yep, a crappy AX hand wins it. Next, AJ - not a complete premium hand, but worth a look. Flop includes a Queen, and there's another bet and raise, and I know I'm behind to the raiser, and have to (correctly) fold. By this point half my stack is gone... Then, Pocket 3's. Flop trips. (A23). This is great heads-up, or so I think. The ultra-aggressive player who's been raising EVERYTHING raises back at me so most of my chips are in on the flop. Turn comes another club, for 3 clubs, but they could have anything and they'd still raise, so I push the rest of my chips in, and find they'd been playing something like QX clubs, and made a flush as their random finishing hand to bust me out. So much for solid play - the aggressive donks outdrew every hand (not a single hand of mine wasn't the ahead going to the flop). NL would have been the same - I'd have pushed with Aces knowing I'd get called, would have got outflopped, and just bust out faster... Just as well it was only a freeroll, otherwise I'd really have been annoyed. I don't think it's rigged - just sometimes you have to wonder about how long the lucky streaks of the absolute idiots whose only action is to raise every single opportunity can last. [/QUOTE]

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