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XChamp
01-17-2005, 12:03 AM
I'm very short stacked and blind is about to hit.


NL Hold'em Level:5 Blinds (50/100) - Sunday, January 16, 22:27:39 EDT 2005
Table $50,000 Guaranteed Sunday Night Poker Table #9 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: Coach_Sac ( $2365 )
Seat 2: hero ( $922 )
Seat 3: JonDavid99 ( $1980 )
Seat 6: Toolboy36 ( $1510 )
Seat 8: villain ( $1410 )
Seat 9: larybk2 ( $3695 )
Seat 10: jomama_1069 ( $2798 )
Seat 5: odinjohn ( $1115 )
Seat 4: DaveSmith ( $1105 )
Trny:8738251 Level:5
Blinds (50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ Ad Qc ]
Coach_Sac folds.
hero raises [300].
JonDavid99 folds.
DaveSmith folds.
odinjohn folds.
Toolboy36 folds.
villain calls [300].
larybk2 folds.
jomama_1069 calls [200].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, 9s, Kd ]
jomama_1069 checks.
hero checks.
villain is all-In [1110]
jomama_1069 folds.


At this point all I have seen villain do is play KK over the board very weakly (bet the rag flop smallish, checked a J on the turn, checked a rag river) and hardly bet his straight on the turn and river. I have 622 chips left to call a 1572 chip pot. I think he's either bluffing or semi-bluffing JT or 2 diamonds. At best I think he has middle pair. so...

hero is all-In [622]
...and more to come

Also, what about my check on the flop? The whole tournament I had been raising preflop, with hands like AK, AQ, completely missing the flop and continuing with a decent bet only to get raised back. This time I figured the K beat me. I tend to go with Cloutier's reasoning here, that any hand that called preflop was either beating me then or is beating me now. The more I think about though, the more I like just moving in here. It's too easy (and likely) for villain to check and give free cards out to him and jomama when my AQ is winning.

theantelope
01-17-2005, 12:36 AM
All-in preflop. As a general rule, if you have 10x BB or less, if you're going to play, it should be all-in preflop.

silversurfer
01-17-2005, 12:54 AM
Exactly. Easy push pf, what with your stack.