pho75
01-18-2005, 05:37 PM
$0.01/$0.02 NL. We had about the same sized stacks and both had plenty. I have no specific reads on villain.
I'm UTG with AKs and raise to $0.10. It's folded to the button who reraises me $0.30 and then folded back to me.
Now, this is very unusual for this game. What usually happens is that either, I get called by one or more players, or I get reraised and at least one other person will call that reraise. If it’s no too big and I can close the betting, I'll call it.
What happened here sort of threw me. It seems like what would happen in a normal game with good players. And because I don't play with good/normal players I was at a loss for what to do.
Usually when someone reraises here it's an all-in, which I never call with AK. Sometimes the reraise won't be all-in. It will be like 5 to 10 times the original raise. That could mean anything from AA to 66 or AK, AQ, AJ, KQ. And again, I never call those with AK.
Here he reraised me only 3 times my raise. That said to me that he had a pair that was not AA or KK (he could have AA or KK but not likely). I was thinking J's or T's. This is still a micro game so he could have anything.
I thought that just calling would be wrong because I was out of position and was only getting 3-1 on my call. I know that seems big, but I don't know what the odds of flopping an A or K are. They seem worse than that to me.
I thought folding might be good for the same reason calling would be bad.
Then I remembered why AK is such a good hand before the flop. There is good fold equity it when you go all-in for a big raise heads up. So if he had AK, QQ, JJ, TT he may fold. He would certainly fold all pairs lower that T's and any other goofy thing he might have wouldn't he?
So I went all-in for my remaining $3. He thought about it for a long time and then called.
He turned over JJ and they held up.
I wasn't upset, I just figured I made the right play and lost a coin flip. But then I started thinking that the fold equity that I thought I was getting was probably a lot less than it would be against good players. I mean, If some wack-job is going to reraise me with 55 (which happens all the time) then he's probably crazy and foolish enough to call my all-in re-reraise more often that I would like.
So, after all my rambling, my questions are:
1. What do you think of my play in a low limit no-foldem hold'em game?
2. What do you think of my play in a higher stakes game with better players or against a player I know to be good/tight?
Wow, I did ramble on. No wonder my posts never get answered.
I'm UTG with AKs and raise to $0.10. It's folded to the button who reraises me $0.30 and then folded back to me.
Now, this is very unusual for this game. What usually happens is that either, I get called by one or more players, or I get reraised and at least one other person will call that reraise. If it’s no too big and I can close the betting, I'll call it.
What happened here sort of threw me. It seems like what would happen in a normal game with good players. And because I don't play with good/normal players I was at a loss for what to do.
Usually when someone reraises here it's an all-in, which I never call with AK. Sometimes the reraise won't be all-in. It will be like 5 to 10 times the original raise. That could mean anything from AA to 66 or AK, AQ, AJ, KQ. And again, I never call those with AK.
Here he reraised me only 3 times my raise. That said to me that he had a pair that was not AA or KK (he could have AA or KK but not likely). I was thinking J's or T's. This is still a micro game so he could have anything.
I thought that just calling would be wrong because I was out of position and was only getting 3-1 on my call. I know that seems big, but I don't know what the odds of flopping an A or K are. They seem worse than that to me.
I thought folding might be good for the same reason calling would be bad.
Then I remembered why AK is such a good hand before the flop. There is good fold equity it when you go all-in for a big raise heads up. So if he had AK, QQ, JJ, TT he may fold. He would certainly fold all pairs lower that T's and any other goofy thing he might have wouldn't he?
So I went all-in for my remaining $3. He thought about it for a long time and then called.
He turned over JJ and they held up.
I wasn't upset, I just figured I made the right play and lost a coin flip. But then I started thinking that the fold equity that I thought I was getting was probably a lot less than it would be against good players. I mean, If some wack-job is going to reraise me with 55 (which happens all the time) then he's probably crazy and foolish enough to call my all-in re-reraise more often that I would like.
So, after all my rambling, my questions are:
1. What do you think of my play in a low limit no-foldem hold'em game?
2. What do you think of my play in a higher stakes game with better players or against a player I know to be good/tight?
Wow, I did ramble on. No wonder my posts never get answered.