The Greatest Bingo Player of All Time and the 3rd all in

This past Friday was one of my two monthly live games. Two NLHE tournaments with a periodic cash game for those waiting for the 1st or 2nd tournament to end. The one thing that makes this game special is the appearance of the Greatest Bingo Player of All Time, we will call him Bingo or B for short. Anyway, B believes himself to be God's gift to poker as well as bingo.

B was crippled early on when he was the third all in (for the first time that night but not the last). I still don't understand the thinking here. B is on the button, there is an early position caller, mid position raiser (3xBB) followed by a mid/late position reraiser(approx. 8xBB) Now it's B's turn so he calls (?????) First I don't understand the call when its been raised and reraised in front of you. All the money is getting in so why not push and if you can't push then fold. B didn't have anything invested in this pot and still had the original raiser to worry about.

Anyway, its gets folded around to the orginal raiser who, you guessed it, moved all in. The rereaiser calls the all in and now we are back to B, who calls the all in as well?!?!?!?!?

At this point, the rest of us are calling out the various possible combos from the short list of pairs, AKo, AKs (maybe AQs). It seemed obvious to us that B, at least, had to have a pair and a big one at that. Most even thought we would see three pairs.

Everybody was a little dumbfounded with B turned over the QJo. How he thought this was the type of hand to get 80% of your chips in the middle with is beyond me but it wasn't the last time he would do that. At the final table we are down to 7 (paying 4 places). B is the small blind, I am in the cut off. Up to this point, I had only played 3 hands voluntarily and showed each one AKo, AQs, and I pushed all in with AKo 3 hands earlier. Now blinds are 30-60 and I have 440, button has 240 and B has 170 in the 30 SB (BB had around 100 after posting the BB but was bad enough to regularly fold even against one player if he didn't have cards). It gets folded to me and I find 99 so I go all in (I have the other three covered and don't even mind a caller at this point). The button thinks and talks for awhile before callin my all in. B calls and the big blind folds. The button has AK and B has K 10 offsuit. ??????? How on earth B thought that was a good call is beyond me. Of course he claimed to "know" I had a medium pair and he was getting pot odds to call.

Up until that point I had not pushed with anything but AK and AQs. Of course he made his prediction after he sees my cards and the hand is over plus what did he think the button had? garbage? QJ and K 10 offsuit are horrible hands to call especially since this is a tournament. Pot odds don't really matter unless you have over 30 times the big blind and the call doesn't cost you that much in a tournament where a premium is placed on survival. B even knows this because he often would tell me I made a bad call since I could have folded to "fight another day." These types of hands are almost never ahead in these types of situations and, as was the case here, easily dominated by the other hands.

Whatever you do, don't be the third all in unless (1) you are short stacked and will get wiped out by the blinds this round, (2) have enough chips such that you will still have over 20 BBs if you lose or (3) have a hand like high pair of AKos or AQs. Don't call off a lot of your chips to an all in or two all ins with to big cards because you "think" you have two overs or two live cards. It is a poor move that will cost you in the long run.