A (slightly) interesting situation

[ilya]

***** Hand History for Game 853260583 *****
Table Table 11238 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: domseger ( $1459 )
Seat 2: diamondcuta ( $1465 )
Seat 3: Big_SteveS ( $46 )
Seat 5: mrzarembsky ( $650 )
Seat 8: CHJ5588 ( $1384 )
Seat 9: tbonic ( $2996 )
Trny:5292875 Level:4
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to mrzarembsky [ Td Th ]

Notice that the big blind is all-in for 46, reducing the initial pot by a third. Plus of course he's going to the river. Of course even if he wins I get most of my chips back, but if there's another caller I'm prolly in worse shape than usual. Also I don't particularly want to make people comfortable about calling my pushes with AJ and KQ. I folded, and although I think it was probably the wrong play after all, I thought the situation was still interesting.
By the way, the blinds weren't going up until after they hit me.

[durron597]

Six handed, are you kidding? Jam it. You need the 100 (ok 96) chips that it will add to your stack, because you are so short. Who knows, maybe you'll big cards to call you and you can double up.

[ilya]

Yeah you're right....just the fact that I keep thinking of how I could justify folding tells me that I should have pushed.

I do think the situation changes a hand like 66 or 77 from a push to a fold, though.

[tallstack]

FWIW, the tens are just too good of a hand for me to pass up here. Someone may call with overcards, but very few hands are a favorite over you here. If the players are loose, then you have a decent chance to get a caller that you have dominated. Even if you get head's up with the BB, you still have a great chance (~75% against a random hand) of winning the showdown. I'm sure that pushing here is +CEV.

If you fold then you will post on the next two hands and possibly be down to t500 with the blinds soon increasing to 100/200. That doesn't sound too attractive. You will not likely be able to steal easily with that stack.

I agree that the partial BB makes the hand less attractive, but I would still push here.

Dave S

[ilya]

Thanks for the reply tallstack. I think you're right.

[chill888]

You are right: interesting. If you push and get called you hate it, but if you don't get called you don't win much and may even lose to all-in.


Probably right to push - but you don't have to like it /images/graemlins/wink.gif