I played in one of the $10.000 freerolls awhile back and I remember in particular one of the hands I played there. I played loose-aggressive at the start and got ~60 BB stack and then tightened up. After that I got skunked -- could hardly get a card higher than a ten and folded/lost every hand, getting blinded down in the process.
I got put on a new table with around 20 BB left and finally got AQs, which ended with an ace, paired board and a K, resulting in a split pot. The next hand was the blind and I received 72. It folded around to SB with a 2x stack to mine, and he raised big enough to have odds to call off a push from me. I pushed, he showed A5, a 7 came on the flop and no A on turn or river, the villain's chat indicating that he was well pissed off that I wasn't playing ABC poker. His chat before that was hand commentary in typical pedantic pokerstrategy tone and style so I calculated that pushing and winning with 72 would either freeze him up or put him on tilt.
Here was my thinking: 1. the bubble was fairly close but too far away to limp into and if my luck would run as it has, my blinds will get slowly picked off. I had a 2/1 chance if he didn't have a 7,2 or pair. If I won the hand showing the worst hand in hold-em, it would establish my table image as someone who would not be bluffed off his blinds. It worked that time -- I literally didn't get a raise to my blind at that table from then on with it folding down a couple of times to SB who max timed out, then folded and I could be fairly sure a raise would mean he had a monster. I ended up in the money (18th place, as I recall).
Did I do the right thing?
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