Thanks for that @LeVsKaRa Yes I have read the book and find it very useful, but still there are a lot of scenarios to cover, and it's not easy to remember every specific situation, except to know you can't be messing about too much. It was the absolute bubble, five left and four tickets, and had been that way for some time, very tight and close, a few times one of the shorter stacks at risk and surviving. We were all fairly tight but the player on my right had been raising far more often than anyone else, being lucky once when short stacked and all in. I'd been getting no hands to defend or attack with, having to shove lighter a few times as I'm sure everyone had to. It was just one of those situations where I felt these raises were coming far too often to be credible so fought back and found the bad news, this time he did have it. If I'd had JJ or QQ the result would have been the same. I was a bit upset but only for 5 minutes, I felt I'd done OK for an hours worth of final table play and my big hand was hit by a bigger one. I think we all played that hour quite OK so it wasn't like I was coolered by 74o or anything stupid, and will take some confidence going forward. The UK and UO satties are virtually the only poker I'm playing at the moment so Dara's book is going to be reread again, hopefully some more situations or specific hands will stick in the memory, I have to make them count. Good Luck to us both, see you on the felt.
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