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Title: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Waz1892 on December 16, 2008, 22:15:25 PM
$6k guaranteed on betfred..$5buyin

blinds 400.800.  I have 7k...villian has 16.6k.  folded to him in mid pos.

he bets 2400
i call for another 1600 in BB with 10"s..(ok to call?..raise all in?) i now think all in as M of less than 10
FLOP.. 9c jh 7d

I Bet 2k..(enough..ship it?..)

he re-raises..all in..
i call (ok..?)

he shows..AK...k on river..i said in chat..strange call with A high..am i right
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: WarBwastardo on December 16, 2008, 23:38:18 PM
I"d have shoved on him pre-flop.  I think calling 2400 with a stack of only 7000 is too bigger percentage.  
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: tumblet on December 16, 2008, 23:45:17 PM

I"d have shoved on him pre-flop.  I think calling 2400 with a stack of only 7000 is too bigger percentage. 


Yes me 2, and/or shipped it in after flop.
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: duke3016 on December 16, 2008, 23:49:43 PM


I"d have shoved on him pre-flop.  I think calling 2400 with a stack of only 7000 is too bigger percentage. 


Yes me 2, and/or shipped it in after flop.


Daf ? what would George do
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: tumblet on December 16, 2008, 23:57:31 PM



I"d have shoved on him pre-flop.  I think calling 2400 with a stack of only 7000 is too bigger percentage. 


Yes me 2, and/or shipped it in after flop.


Daf ? what would George do


george would have had   9s 7h and have 2pr
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Swinebag on December 17, 2008, 00:16:59 AM
calling pre flop is only ok if you are prepared to go all the way with it no matter what the flop is. I prefer the shove pre flop but others will say that "stop and going" does give you alternative ways to win the pot.

So once you call you have 4600 behind and the pot is 5200 going to the flop. So shove em in. Opponent may fold but will probably call given

1. he has 2 overs
2. he may actually think he is ahead vs a stop and goer
3. he isn"t putting his tourney on the line with the call.

The 2K bet is basically a shove in disguise anyway because you aren"t going anywhere and most oponents would know that anyway. Dont think the AK guy did anything too bad to be honest.
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Waz1892 on December 17, 2008, 01:09:02 AM

Dont think the AK guy did anything too bad to be honest.


agree with all u say ..TY..only "arguement"..he knows he has to catch...no?....im tellin him i have at least pair..with the fact im basically commited.??
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: LongshanksED on December 17, 2008, 06:01:14 AM
i would say its risky calling with the AK but he did over cards but there is 2 lines of thought i would say

1. i presume the villain"s thinking that on that flop his AK is good as you only called his pre flop raise and would be looking at a weaker ace. even if you shoved all in pre flop he has already commited 2.5k in chips and would surely call

and with AK pre flop and tourney life aint in danger then should you shove his call is ok too

2. but also (going by theory books) you maybe shouldve check raised all-in and that tells him that you have a made hand

its a difficult one to play the way you did

without knowing too much about the villians past its hard to know how his style is
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: kinboshi on December 17, 2008, 09:17:27 AM

calling pre flop is only ok if you are prepared to go all the way with it no matter what the flop is. I prefer the shove pre flop but others will say that "stop and going" does give you alternative ways to win the pot.

So once you call you have 4600 behind and the pot is 5200 going to the flop. So shove em in. Opponent may fold but will probably call given

1. he has 2 overs
2. he may actually think he is ahead vs a stop and goer
3. he isn"t putting his tourney on the line with the call.

The 2K bet is basically a shove in disguise anyway because you aren"t going anywhere and most oponents would know that anyway. Dont think the AK guy did anything too bad to be honest.


I like the stop and go here.  AK can call the shove correctly pre-flop, but his call on the flop is meh imo, he might have the odds to call if he knows both of his cards are live (if you have AJ for example, only his K is live).

Shoving pre is probably my usual course of action, mixed up with a bit of wash n" go.
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Swinebag on December 17, 2008, 10:10:56 AM


Dont think the AK guy did anything too bad to be honest.


agree with all u say ..TY..only "arguement"..he knows he has to catch...no?....im tellin him i have at least pair..with the fact im basically commited.??


The argument is when in the hand you are pot committed. You are saying you are pot committed after your lead on the flop, but the AK guy is thinking that you are pot committed after the call preflop (edit) that committed a third of your stack.

Yes, there is a very strong possibility he has to catch, but he also cant rule out the possibilty you are bluffing with air. Once you call his raise pre flop, he knows you are pretty much pot committed and knows you will pretty much lead on any flop whether you have a pair or not
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: AMRN on December 17, 2008, 11:41:53 AM

he re-raises..all in..
i call (ok..?)

he shows..AK...k on river..i said in chat..strange call with A high..am i right


Re your chat comment - he didn"t call with A hi - he pushed with it, and that is perfectly reasonable given the apparent weakness of your relatively small lead out bet.

With your stack size, once you decide to play the hand at all, you have to be prepared to commit your entire stack. So - it"s just a question of all in pre or post flop.... I tend to prefer stop and go - flat call preflop, knowing that you are open shoving after the flop whatever comes down. He then only has three cards to hit if has overcards, and on this flop, you may even get him to fold JJ.
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Waz1892 on December 17, 2008, 19:47:56 PM
all about learning..so thank-you all for comments...

i now think it was fold the BB or raise all in...most of my hands held up so not complaining about the rivered K, it happens, just trying to understand the way i play better to further improve

finishing 252nd (200 cashed) from 1600+ im pleased about, the night before i was 7th out of 669 in the PPbetfred freeroll series, leg 4...so picked up $40.

the reason for the post, wasn"t a complaint but to get more experianced better players viewed, and you have..so thank-you.

Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: WarBwastardo on December 17, 2008, 20:37:29 PM

all about learning..so thank-you all for comments...

i now think it was fold the BB or raise all in...most of my hands held up so not complaining about the rivered K, it happens, just trying to understand the way i play better to further improve

finishing 252nd (200 cashed) from 1600+ im pleased about, the night before i was 7th out of 669 in the PPbetfred freeroll series, leg 4...so picked up $40.

the reason for the post, wasn"t a complaint but to get more experianced better players viewed, and you have..so thank-you.




Don"t think I"d ever fold tens in that spot with such a short stack.
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Waz1892 on December 18, 2008, 02:04:15 AM


all about learning..so thank-you all for comments...

i now think it was fold the BB or raise all in...most of my hands held up so not complaining about the rivered K, it happens, just trying to understand the way i play better to further improve

finishing 252nd (200 cashed) from 1600+ im pleased about, the night before i was 7th out of 669 in the PPbetfred freeroll series, leg 4...so picked up $40.

the reason for the post, wasn"t a complaint but to get more experianced better players viewed, and you have..so thank-you.




Don"t think I"d ever fold tens in that spot with such a short stack.


oops.meant dont think..but all in
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: noble1 on December 18, 2008, 04:02:36 AM
Not the way i"d play TT with 8.75bb left,but you know that now it was a shove or fold situation so enough said.
as played though AK re-raise is ok??? Mathematically to make it correct he has to think you have no pair or no piece of the flop what so ever.

blinds 400/800  no antes ?
villian bets - 2400
you call - 1600    
pot - 5200
you had 7000 called 1600 leaving 5400 back
you lead out 2000  [3400 left]  
villian re-raises putting you all in,so basically he is risking 5400 to win 10600 with 2 cards to come with Ace high.
That is odds of 1.96 to 1 , equity wise %33.78

So what is AK beating to make the shove correct maths wise -
board 9c  jh 7d
AcKd - 73.131%
AQs+,ATs,A8s,A6s-A2s,KQs,KTs,QTs,T6s,86s,AQo+,ATo,A8o,A6o-A2o,KQo,KTo,QTo,T6o,86o - 29.419%  

a fairly broad range of hands that have missed the flop,but if we add any hand to this range that has hit the flop -

AcKd - 34.636%
22+,A2s+,K9s+,K7s,Q9s+,Q7s,J2s+,T6s+,92s+,86s+,72s+,A2o+,K9o+,K7o,Q9o+,Q7o,
J2o+,T6o+,92o+,86o+,72o+ - 65.364%

if villian figures that you have a pair of sorts,a piece of the flop or flopped the straight which by the way all combined is 48% of all possible hands , what will the figures look like -

AcKd - 21.535%
22+,AJs,A9s,A7s,KJs,K9s,K7s,QJs,Q9s,Q7s,J2s+,T7s+,92s+,86s+,72s+,AJo,A9o,A7o,
KJo,K9o,K7o,QJo,Q9o,Q7o,J2o+,T7o+,92o+,86o+,72o+ - 78.465%

What does everyone think about the AK re-raise now , who is for? who is against?


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2. but also (going by theory books) you maybe shouldve check raised all-in and that tells him that you have a made hand


he definitely would price AK in if he [wazz] check raised all in, as played by villian it is rather debatable about shoving AK to a lead out from wazz..
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: noble1 on December 18, 2008, 04:46:54 AM
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Posted by: Swinebag22 Yesterday at 12:16:59 am
Posted by: Swinebag22  So once you call you have 4600 behind


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I have 7k...villian has 16.6k.  folded to him in mid pos.

he bets 2400
i call for another 1600 in BB



7000 - 1600 Work in Salford as a maths teacher???  sorry i could not resist it lol  ;D
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: CrizzyConnor on December 18, 2008, 05:44:18 AM
Like has already been said before, there are two possible courses of action here:
1) Re-raise all in pre-flop
2) Stop & Go

Both are fine. If you re-raise all in pre you"re more than likely getting a call from him anyway so outcome would"ve been the same. However you chose to flat call his raise leaving you 4600 behind... The flop that hit is in my opinion a great flop for you, definitely about the best you could have hoped for with only one overcard and a gutshot. No matter what had hit though you should be pushing all in, taking away his positional advantage and putting him to a decision.

The 2000 bet isn"t even half pot, achieves nothing and never will. I know it sounds stupid and would be ridiculous to leave yourself with only 3BBs behind but a lot of weak players at $5 level ARE willing to put out that 2k as a feeler bet and fold to a raise. The bet looks either REALLY weak or REALLY strong - the guy obviously took it as weakness and even if he was wrong he still had two overcards.

The 2,000 bet was the main mistake in the hand. You were committed anyway so why leave anything behind and give up an opportunity to take down a pot without showdown? If you put it all in and he calls then I think you can question his call but not with the way the hand was played.



Dont think the AK guy did anything too bad to be honest.


agree with all u say ..TY..only "arguement"..he knows he has to catch...no?....im tellin him i have at least pair..with the fact im basically commited.??


At $5 level online I don"t think you"re telling him anything at all with the 2k bet, except "take a shot please"... IMO the 2k bet looks weak to him, if he"s wrong he has 2 overcards and if he misses he"s still got chips anyway. You"re fairly deep in the tourney but still 200-odd places away from the real money, there"s no money ladders to worry about yet and players are looking to build stacks to take them deep. He was looking to build a stack and didn"t really do anything wrong imo, he just pounced on what he saw as an opportunity to build chips ftw...
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: CrizzyConnor on December 18, 2008, 05:44:47 AM

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Posted by: Swinebag22 Yesterday at 12:16:59 am
Posted by: Swinebag22  So once you call you have 4600 behind


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I have 7k...villian has 16.6k.  folded to him in mid pos.

he bets 2400
i call for another 1600 in BB



7000 - 1600 Work in Salford as a maths teacher???  sorry i could not resist it lol  ;D


What about the 800 BB he already has in?
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Swinebag on December 18, 2008, 08:00:23 AM


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Posted by: Swinebag22 Yesterday at 12:16:59 am
Posted by: Swinebag22  So once you call you have 4600 behind


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I have 7k...villian has 16.6k.  folded to him in mid pos.

he bets 2400
i call for another 1600 in BB



7000 - 1600 Work in Salford as a maths teacher???  sorry i could not resist it lol  ;D


What about the 800 BB he already has in?


Thanks Chris, I did assume (right or wrong) that the starting stack before posting blinds was 7K
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Waz1892 on December 18, 2008, 09:02:24 AM

The 2,000 bet was the main mistake in the hand. You were committed anyway so why leave anything behind and give up an opportunity to take down a pot without showdown? If you put it all in and he calls then I think you can question his call but not with the way the hand was played.


crizzy thank-you for comments..and yes seems to be the main problem with the whoel situ.  And certainly something i need to improve in terms of a thought process

1) what was i thinking and aiming to do..(I had no real thought process as to why im betting what i did- hence the pickle i get myself into sometimes)
2) General game needs to be thought through as to what im trying to do when betting, calling raising, representing..etc, as i dont really at the moment.


TY ALL
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Waz1892 on December 18, 2008, 09:04:52 AM

Not the way i"d play TT with 8.75bb left,but you know that now it was a shove or fold situation so enough said.
as played though AK re-raise is ok??? Mathematically to make it correct he has to think you have no pair or no piece of the flop what so ever.


noble, this was my intially though, as if i was in AK position, i dont think id be calling as i knew i have to hit, as i would defo put oppoent on a pair or hit board.
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: CrizzyConnor on December 18, 2008, 09:26:29 AM

2) General game needs to be thought through as to what im trying to do when betting, calling raising, representing..etc, as i dont really at the moment.


Yeah defo, I think a lot of people feel rushed in online poker because of the fast nature of the game but you should defo try take a second to just question what you"re doing before you do it. It"s not always possible as those snap clicks of the mouse are so easy to make (and the reason I crash out of most tournies, lol)... Anyway good luck with future tournies and well done taking down some money in one of those crazy Poker Player freerolls!
Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: noble1 on December 18, 2008, 11:26:12 AM
 
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I have 7k...villian has 16.6k.  folded to him in mid pos.

he bets 2400
i call for another 1600 in BB


Crizzy the blinds 400/800 ""i have 7k"" gives the game away then he calls for 1600 more


expand (a+b)n


(a + b)n

(a     +     b)n

(a          +          b)n

(a               +               b)n                  ;D

Title: Re: Your Thoughts please..
Post by: Waz1892 on December 18, 2008, 20:57:37 PM


2) General game needs to be thought through as to what im trying to do when betting, calling raising, representing..etc, as i dont really at the moment.


Yeah defo, I think a lot of people feel rushed in online poker because of the fast nature of the game but you should defo try take a second to just question what you"re doing before you do it. It"s not always possible as those snap clicks of the mouse are so easy to make (and the reason I crash out of most tournies, lol)... Anyway good luck with future tournies and well done taking down some money in one of those crazy Poker Player freerolls!


TY crizzy, i was quite chuffed!