Setup hand or what??

ovada Hand #2845595441: HOLDEM Tournament #3846916 TBL#20, No Limit- Level 9 (150/300) - 2013-10-18 01:27:42
Seat 1: UTG+3 (2,195 in chips)
Seat 2: UTG+4 (14,775 in chips)
Seat 3: UTG+5 (5,231 in chips)
Seat 4: Dealer (1,014 in chips)
Seat 5: Small Blind (21,677 in chips)
Seat 6: Big Blind [ME] (18,928 in chips)
Seat 7: UTG (8,902 in chips)
Seat 8: UTG+1 (4,815 in chips)
Seat 9: UTG+2 (6,655 in chips)
Dealer : Set dealer/Bring in spot [4]
UTG+3 : Ante chip 30
UTG+4 : Ante chip 30
UTG+5 : Ante chip 30
Dealer : Ante chip 30
Small Blind : Ante chip 30
Big Blind [ME] : Ante chip 30
UTG : Ante chip 30
UTG+1 : Ante chip 30
UTG+2 : Ante chip 30
Small Blind : Ante/Small blind 150
Big Blind [ME] : Big blind/Bring in 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
UTG+3 : Card dealt to a spot [Kh 3c]
UTG+4 : Card dealt to a spot [6s 6h]
UTG+5 : Card dealt to a spot [9s 2d]
Dealer : Card dealt to a spot [3s 5d]
Small Blind : Card dealt to a spot [5h Kc]
Big Blind [ME] : Card dealt to a spot [Qd Ks]
UTG : Card dealt to a spot [Ah As]
UTG+1 : Card dealt to a spot [9c 2h]
UTG+2 : Card dealt to a spot [7s Jd]
UTG : Call 300
UTG+1 : Folds
UTG+2 : Folds
UTG+3 : Folds
UTG+4 : Call 300
UTG+5 : Folds
Dealer : Folds
Small Blind : Folds
Big Blind [ME] : Checks
*** FLOP *** [4d Ts Qs]
Big Blind [ME] : Bets 680
UTG : Raises 1960 to 1960
UTG+4 : Folds
Big Blind [ME] : Call 1280
*** TURN *** [4d Ts Qs] [9h]
Big Blind [ME] : Bets 2620
UTG : All-in(raise) 6612 to 6612
Big Blind [ME] : Call 3992
*** RIVER *** [4d Ts Qs 9h] [3d]
Big Blind [ME] : Showdown [Qs Qd Ks Ts 9h] (One pair)
UTG : Showdown [As Ah Qs Ts 9h] (One pair)
UTG : Hand Result 18464
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot(18464)
Board [4d Ts Qs 9h 3d]
Seat+1: UTG+3 Folded before the FLOP
Seat+2: UTG+4 Folded on the FLOP
Seat+3: UTG+5 Folded before the FLOP
Seat+4: Dealer Folded before the FLOP
Seat+5: Small Blind Folded before the FLOP
Seat+6: Big Blind lose with One pair [Qd Ks-Qs Qd Ks Ts 9h]
Seat+7: UTG 18464 with One pair [Ah As-As Ah Qs Ts 9h]
Seat+8: UTG+1 Folded before the FLOP
Seat+9: UTG+2 Folded before the FLOP

Then the very next hand lol!

Bovada Hand #2845595958: HOLDEM Tournament #3846916 TBL#20, No Limit- Level 9 (150/300) - 2013-10-18 01:28:45
Seat 1: UTG+2 (2,165 in chips)
Seat 2: UTG+3 (14,445 in chips)
Seat 3: UTG+4 (5,201 in chips)
Seat 4: UTG+5 (984 in chips)
Seat 5: Dealer (21,497 in chips)
Seat 6: Small Blind [ME] (10,026 in chips)
Seat 7: Big Blind (18,464 in chips)
Seat 8: UTG (4,785 in chips)
Seat 9: UTG+1 (6,625 in chips)
Dealer : Set dealer/Bring in spot [5]
UTG+2 : Ante chip 30
UTG+3 : Ante chip 30
UTG+4 : Ante chip 30
UTG+5 : Ante chip 30
Dealer : Ante chip 30
Small Blind [ME] : Ante chip 30
Big Blind : Ante chip 30
UTG : Ante chip 30
UTG+1 : Ante chip 30
Small Blind [ME] : Ante/Small blind 150
Big Blind : Big blind/Bring in 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
UTG+2 : Card dealt to a spot [3d Kc]
UTG+3 : Card dealt to a spot [Jc Kd]
UTG+4 : Card dealt to a spot [Jd Js]
UTG+5 : Card dealt to a spot [8h Qs]
Dealer : Card dealt to a spot [8c 9c]
Small Blind [ME] : Card dealt to a spot [Ah As]
Big Blind : Card dealt to a spot [4c Kh]
UTG : Card dealt to a spot [3h Ac]
UTG+1 : Card dealt to a spot [2d Tc]
UTG : Folds
UTG+1 : Folds
UTG+2 : Folds
UTG+3 : Folds
UTG+4 : Call 300
UTG+5 : Folds
Dealer : Call 300
Small Blind [ME] : Raises 650 to 800
Big Blind : Folds
UTG+4 : Call 500
Dealer : Call 500
*** FLOP *** [7h 6s Jh]
Small Blind [ME] : Bets 1800
UTG+4 : Call 1800
Dealer : Call 1800
*** TURN *** [7h 6s Jh] [4h]
Small Blind [ME] : Bets 4185
UTG+4 : All-in 2571
Dealer : Folds
Small Blind [ME] : Return uncalled portion of bet 1614
*** RIVER *** [7h 6s Jh 4h] [Ts]
UTG+4 : Showdown [Js Jh Jd Ts 7h] (Three of a kind)
Small Blind [ME] : Showdown [As Ah Jh Ts 7h] (One pair)
UTG+4 : Hand Result 13512
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot(13512)
Board [7h 6s Jh 4h Ts]
Seat+1: UTG+2 Folded before the FLOP
Seat+2: UTG+3 Folded before the FLOP
Seat+3: UTG+4 13512 with Three of a kind [Jd Js-Js Jh Jd Ts 7h]
Seat+4: UTG+5 Folded before the FLOP
Seat+5: Dealer Folded on the TURN
Seat+6: Small Blind lose with One pair [Ah As-As Ah Jh Ts 7h]
Seat+7: Big Blind Folded before the FLOP
Seat+8: UTG Folded before the FLOP
Seat+9: UTG+1 Folded before the FLOP

What site is this that allows you to see everyone's hole cards?

this is from bovada...but you can only see cards after tourney is over I guess,not that is matters....theres no S/N's on bovada

First hand is kinda standard, really. He's UTG with about 30bbs, you start with over 60. He's in a good spot to trap here with those short stacks behind him, and you sorta fell in love with top pair. I mean, in a way you sort of thought maybe you were trapping by hiding that KQ in the BB, but I believe it was Doyle Brunson who warned against committing to a one-pair hand on an unraised flop.

When you get raised on that flop, it should give you notice. Yes, you have top pair, but there is a decent-sized stack picking a fight with your big stack. At least one alarm bell should go off...he limped utg..what can he have here that can raise so confidently? A bluff? Maybe, but not often enough for us to lose half our stack to discover. It's OK to get bluffed on occasion.

So does he limp utg there with broadway hands and small pairs, or is this the kind of player to throw in all the suited aces, kings, and queens? At any rate, what does he push back against your stack with on that flop? AQ, KQ, KJs, QT, maybe KJo, some suited spade hands, and of course 44. You're just not that far ahead of that if at all. Then when the 9 hits you commit to his shove by betting out, meaning you feel like you really can't fold there. Calling the flop raise was iffy, but betting out here is the real mistake IMO...just check-fold that turn unless he lays out some horribly small bet.


Next hand is odd, but really just a cooler. Weird play for him to limp-call JJ there, but maybe he's one of the billions of players who hates to play JJ. You're never folding at any point there with only 17bb effective. If you play online long enough, you're simply going to see this stuff. It's going to stick in your mind, but the reality is hands can come in clumps, hands can be spread out, a 6 can seem to hit 30 flops in a row, etc. Your brain will lock on to whatever your focusing on, so don't focus on the inevitable strange combinations of hands or bad beats or whatever and you'll see their significance fade. You'll win more, and poker will be more fun.

The converse is to concentrate on the belief that the site is somehow out to get you, which is the saddest state of all. Why anyone would continue to subject themselves to the whim of a site that they believe is actively trying to cheat them is beyond idiocy. Someone was joking about a "doomswitch" today in the chat. It cracks me up. Like if they truly believe that the software is somehow rigged to favor bad players, to punish good players, or whatever, then what masochistic need are they fulfilling by logging on?

Anyway...these hands individually are sort of just coolers (alth I think there's a cheaper way out of hand #1), and taken together they can be tilting. But only if you allow that to happen.

i know the sights not out to get me lol, and yea the guy with AA played it great and me not so great.but then the very next hand i get coolered out with aces just pretty sick to me. i need to work on my game a lot more tho, i got some holes that need patching.thx for the insight man it was really helpful

IF AA had just won the hand before, online ,its bound to lose the next time its seen. Altho AA should win 75% of the time online doesnt see it that way LMFAO