These situations occured at last weekend"s Ladbrokes Poker Festival in Killarney.
Tourney is 3-day,550 euro buy-in with 15000 chips and 1-hour levels, starting at 25/25
1. We are at Level 3 and I am in the SB when it is folded round to the serial-limper to my right who is on the button. He makes it 300 to go and I call for 250 more, making the pot 700, with ah qh
Flop comes qd ts
and after I check, he reaches down and throws 3 chips into the pot. The dealer announces "3000" and he nearly jumps out of his seat with shock before syaing "OK then".
Now either he is Sir John Gielgud in a mask or he meant to bet 300 and picked up the wrong chips ! I think it"s the latter so I raise to 6000......and he CALLS !!
Turn comes the :
: and he quickly announces "ALL-IN"
So I have top-pair, top kicker against a guy who I believe was making a weak continuation bet but played it like Stevie Wonder. Would you call, leaving yourself just 800 behind if you lose, at such an early stage in the tourney ??
Scene two.
Late on day one and my room-mate is moved to my (very active) table, although we don"t acknowledge each other at that stage. He is a good, solid player and has 36k while I am down to around 15k.
A Scottish guy, who likes to see a flop and has around 32k, raises to 850 (150/300 level) and my pal calls in an instant to his left. I look down in the BB at
and call for 550 more, putting 2450 in the middle.
Flop is a lovely ac
and I bet 1650, which the Scot calls, only for my ex-mate to IMMEDIATELY shove for his whole stack. I am next to act and know that the Scot can do that P..t I am sharing a room with some MAJOR damage.
So then.....what do you put the all-in on........and would you call for your tourney ??
Scene Three
It"s Final-Table time with 100,000 euros for the winner plus a Carribean Poker Cruise package and it is 8-handed after 25 hours of play over 3 days.
The guy who is 3rd in chips bets 60k and the chip leader on the SB calls. The BB folds.
Flop comes ad js
and the SB bets out 150k. The original raiser makes it 500k and so the chippy shoves and the other guy INSTA-CALLS.
What hand do you think the caller had to insta-call with ??
