SB all-in

Commerce Casino's Limit Tourny on June 7. 4th round and the limits are 50-100; rebuys are over. I'm short stacked as is BB. Seats 9 and 10 are medium stacked, very loose with position and are correctly attacking the short stacked blinds. Anyway, the hand: I've posted in the Sb and look down at two black 9's. I have 3.5 SB's remaining. It's folded around to Seat 9 who raises. Folded to me. BB has been folding about 80% of the time to a raise. I don't expect her to be in the hand and feel a raise won't impact her decision, so, I call. This, I feel, was great mistake and I realize it immediately. Flop comes Q 6 3 rb. I check-raise all in. Seat 9 calls and turns over A/10. As I suspected, he missed the flop. He catches an A on the river and I'm out. How could I have won this hand with so few chips?

How could you have won this hand with so few chips? If the A wouldn't have come on the river!


I don't think there was much of a chance of you betting A-10 out of the hand. Possibly a re-raise pre-flop followed by a strong bet on the flop, but it's totally dependent on your opponent and his/her playing style.


You tried this approach, and were one card away from more than doubling up. Tough luck.. play another day.


CHiP

Your play is inconclusive: Since you're pot committed anyway, calling preflop only makes sense if you bet out on the flop, to confront him with 3.5:1 odds (as he will also have to call the subsequent all-in) and give yourself a (small) chance to take it down.


You knew beforehand that there's no way he would fold any live hand for a check-raise when getting 8:1 odds, so why risk giving a free card to hands like JT or allowing him to fold a cold bluff on a completely hopeless hand like 98? If you intended to trap him anyway, why not reraise preflop and bet all-in on the flop to at least assure maximum profit when your nines hold up.


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Ignatius