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At the start of the hand I had about $21,000. The blinds were $400/$800 with a $100 ante. It was small blind versus big blind. I raised before the flop to $3,000. My opponent called. We had $6,800 in the pot. The flop came 4-4-8 with two hearts. I had J-5 of hearts and had to make a bet I really didn’t want to make. I bet $4,000. After I bet, he moved all in for $9,900 more. I put him on A-8. I didn’t put him on a 4. I also didn’t put him on a heart draw.

I figured had eleven outs. The math was very very close. I had to think about it because I am not a math genius, but I do know the math. Sometimes when it’s a real close decision it puts you right on the edge. It took me about two and a half minutes to decide that mathematically I was making the right decision even if I knew that I was beat. I had to make the call even if I thought I had the worst hand.

I wasn’t going to be busted on the hand, but if I won the hand it was going to be huge. I felt like if I won this pot, I would have made the final table. There are stages of the tournament when you have to get your money in there when it’s mathematically correct. Sometime pot odds aren’t quite as important in no-limit hold’em tournaments because of the fact that you’re going to be out if it doesn’t get there, but there are critical stages of the tournament when mathematically you’ve got to make the right decision.

I wish I had put more pressure on him before the flop. He had J-8. It actually came running jack jack so we both ended up with full houses. I had jacks full of fours and he had jacks full of eights. That hand didn’t bust me, but it crippled me. It was the $400/$800 round, and I was knocked down to $5,500 in chips. That’s just the way it goes.

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