Checking pf & then hitting two pair on the flop with lim

[jimmer]

Well, all my new found advice worked well tonight. When my M dropped to around 7 I started finding the tight players and pushing all-in. I got my M up to around 9 or 10 and then the blinds went up and I did it all again. Not once did I get called.

One interesting thing I noticed was; when we got down to the last 25 players, the 5 small stacks (which at one point included myself) were all sat on my table.

However as per usual, just when things are starting to look up, this happens;

alartist has been limping calling raises all game. There is no rhyme not reason to his play. atilla nl has only just sat at the table.

If that ace didn't turn up on the river I would of jumped to second place in the overall tourney with 16 players left.

Advice on the hand please??? Is this just a bad beat or did I play the hand wrong?

PokerStars Game #27863440803: Tournament #161304161, $1.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/05/05 19:16:15 ET
Table '161304161 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: nelsons999 (955 in chips)
Seat 2: carlosjor (4225 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: jbdb3 (2605 in chips)
Seat 5: atilla nl (2220 in chips)
Seat 6: alartist (4265 in chips)
Seat 9: boromir969 (2890 in chips)
carlosjor: posts small blind 100
jbdb3: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jbdb3 [Ks 9c]
atilla nl: calls 200
alartist: calls 200
boromir969: folds
nelsons999: folds
carlosjor: folds
jbdb3: checks
*** FLOP *** [9s Kh 7h]
jbdb3: checks
atilla nl: bets 400
alartist: raises 400 to 800
jbdb3: raises 1605 to 2405 and is all-in
atilla nl: calls 1620 and is all-in
alartist: calls 1605
*** TURN *** [9s Kh 7h] [5h]
*** RIVER *** [9s Kh 7h 5h] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jbdb3: shows [Ks 9c] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
alartist: shows [Kd Ac] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
alartist collected 770 from side pot
atilla nl: shows [Qc Kc] (a pair of Kings)
alartist collected 6760 from main pot

[HalfSugar]

I don't see anything wrong with that hand, it's just a cooler.

If you were deeper stacked, with two limpers in front you would be looking to make it > 1,000 to go but with your stack as it is, you either check or shove here, and shoving is bad.

[xDiamond_CutteRx]

Jimmer, you know the answer to your question already.

[Garoen]

Jimmer, you know the answer to your question already.

[Jernej Zorec]

wp

[miaowmiaowchowface]

Jimmer, you know the answer to your question already.

yes plz stop poasting these

[jimmer]

Jimmer, you know the answer to your question already.

I think you are right, however I had two concerns;
1. I was just a little concerned that I let two players from early position see a cheap flop.
2. That with the stack sizes the way they were (especially alartist's) that I should of simply pushed all-in on the flop and not check-raised.

I can see now that I no matter what i did preflop or on the flop I was gonna get two callers, but at the time?????

Thanks for the replies

[jimmer]

yes plz stop poasting these

I don't think there's a problem with me posting my hands. I've only been playing sng's for a few weeks and haven't hit the money yet.

I'm clearly doing something wrong and I am trying to identify what.

I was confident i played the hand well, but I'm open-minded enough to realise I could be wrong.