trumpman84
10-07-2004, 07:02 AM
This is a live 8 person $10 tournament allowing one rebuy apiece, but the rebuy's starting chips is less than the original starting amount.
The total prizepool is $110 after a few rebuys and we decided to divide the money 70, 30, 10 respectively for 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
Anyway, there are six still remaining and blinds are 25/50. My stack is at about 1500 which is at or a little below average when I am dealt AKo on the button. After one limper I raise to 250. Small blind folds.
Big blind, had caught some hands earlier and had the entire table covered by at least 2 times, I'm guessing at least 5,000. He re-raises to 900. Limper folds and its back to me. I have a strong read for a pocket pair on this guy. I didn't think he'd make this move with AQ, AJ or any of the hands I'd like to see.
I was sure at best I was at a coinflip with a slight possibility of being a big dog, and I still had about 25x the big blind in my stack and felt no need to risk my stack on a coinflip and to wait for a better spot, and especially didn't want to risk a coinflip with someone who had me covered and had a easy call if I decided to move in.
In the end, I folded and showed my AKo, my opponent shows his JJ. The early position limper couldn't believe what I had just done. I have a lot of respect for the early position player and think he is a very good poker player, so I explained my reasoning by telling him I was risking my entire stack for at BEST around 47% odds. He told me I should come back over the top.
I asked him why I should risk my whole stack on a coinflip when I still have plenty of chips to play with and said that it's different putting all your chips in with AKo rather than calling them all off.
He said AK is the 3rd best starting hand and I should should at least see a flop with it. So, I said, "what should I do if the flop misses, which it will most of the time?" "Fold with only 350 chips remaining?, push with ace high and only two cards to come? call with ace high on a sure flop bet"
I told him I was 90% sure he had a pocket pair and asked him that if he was in my position and KNEW for a fact the big stack had a pocket pair, would he call off his entire stack on a coinflip? He said yes.
I think I'm in the right here, but I just want to see if any opinions here differ.
No less than 10 hands later, I bust him with pocket aces and say, "That's why I fold AKo there, there will be better chances to double up."
The total prizepool is $110 after a few rebuys and we decided to divide the money 70, 30, 10 respectively for 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
Anyway, there are six still remaining and blinds are 25/50. My stack is at about 1500 which is at or a little below average when I am dealt AKo on the button. After one limper I raise to 250. Small blind folds.
Big blind, had caught some hands earlier and had the entire table covered by at least 2 times, I'm guessing at least 5,000. He re-raises to 900. Limper folds and its back to me. I have a strong read for a pocket pair on this guy. I didn't think he'd make this move with AQ, AJ or any of the hands I'd like to see.
I was sure at best I was at a coinflip with a slight possibility of being a big dog, and I still had about 25x the big blind in my stack and felt no need to risk my stack on a coinflip and to wait for a better spot, and especially didn't want to risk a coinflip with someone who had me covered and had a easy call if I decided to move in.
In the end, I folded and showed my AKo, my opponent shows his JJ. The early position limper couldn't believe what I had just done. I have a lot of respect for the early position player and think he is a very good poker player, so I explained my reasoning by telling him I was risking my entire stack for at BEST around 47% odds. He told me I should come back over the top.
I asked him why I should risk my whole stack on a coinflip when I still have plenty of chips to play with and said that it's different putting all your chips in with AKo rather than calling them all off.
He said AK is the 3rd best starting hand and I should should at least see a flop with it. So, I said, "what should I do if the flop misses, which it will most of the time?" "Fold with only 350 chips remaining?, push with ace high and only two cards to come? call with ace high on a sure flop bet"
I told him I was 90% sure he had a pocket pair and asked him that if he was in my position and KNEW for a fact the big stack had a pocket pair, would he call off his entire stack on a coinflip? He said yes.
I think I'm in the right here, but I just want to see if any opinions here differ.
No less than 10 hands later, I bust him with pocket aces and say, "That's why I fold AKo there, there will be better chances to double up."