SyphonTheirCash
01-15-2005, 10:10 PM
Hey everyone,
This is my first attempt at posting a situation so I hope I do it well enough. Ty in advance for any feedback. This situation just happened to me recently. I orginally thought I made the correct play, but the more I think about it.... So i'm in a $100 33-person multi table tournament top 4 getting paid. Starting stack is 1500 making the average stack at the time about 7071. The blinds are 500/1000 increasing in less than 5 minutes to 1000/2000(No Antes). With 7 left i'm sitting on the BB with 4,100. The other stacks are one at 1,000; 4 at about 10,000; bigstack on the SB with about 3 times the next biggest stack. It folds around to the SB who raises it to 3,000. The SB player is a maniac player. He will raise everyhand no matter what it is if the pot has not been raised yet. He raises 72o the same as AA. I've had a pretty good read on him regardless the whole night and doubled off him twice. The rest of the players on the table are quite solid and probably wouldn't do anything stupid prior to me being blinded out or getting a bigger stack. The way he bet it and acted I put him on medium cards 8-Q no pair. I look down at my hand and see A /images/graemlins/spade.gif8 /images/graemlins/heart.gif. I think it is a great example of a decision with a marginal hand , something that is crucial when you are in tournament play. What would you do in this situation?
This is my first attempt at posting a situation so I hope I do it well enough. Ty in advance for any feedback. This situation just happened to me recently. I orginally thought I made the correct play, but the more I think about it.... So i'm in a $100 33-person multi table tournament top 4 getting paid. Starting stack is 1500 making the average stack at the time about 7071. The blinds are 500/1000 increasing in less than 5 minutes to 1000/2000(No Antes). With 7 left i'm sitting on the BB with 4,100. The other stacks are one at 1,000; 4 at about 10,000; bigstack on the SB with about 3 times the next biggest stack. It folds around to the SB who raises it to 3,000. The SB player is a maniac player. He will raise everyhand no matter what it is if the pot has not been raised yet. He raises 72o the same as AA. I've had a pretty good read on him regardless the whole night and doubled off him twice. The rest of the players on the table are quite solid and probably wouldn't do anything stupid prior to me being blinded out or getting a bigger stack. The way he bet it and acted I put him on medium cards 8-Q no pair. I look down at my hand and see A /images/graemlins/spade.gif8 /images/graemlins/heart.gif. I think it is a great example of a decision with a marginal hand , something that is crucial when you are in tournament play. What would you do in this situation?