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dfscott

03-02-2005, 02:28 AM

I don't know what I was thinking here -- I just didn't want to get mixed up in a pot this early, I guess. In any case, this felt really weak, but MP1's cold call worried me. This is a 10+1.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Hero (t785)
SB (t800)
BB (t1720)
UTG (t800)
UTG+1 (t405)
MP1 (t1195)
MP2 (t1590)
CO (t705)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to t100, MP1 calls t100, 2 folds, Hero calls t100, 2 folds.

Flop: (t325) 7/images/graemlins/club.gif, 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 6/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (3 players)
UTG+1 checks, MP1 bets t175, Hero folds, UTG+1 calls t175.

Turn: (t675) J/images/graemlins/heart.gif (2 players)
UTG+1 checks, MP1 bets t150, UTG+1 folds.

Anyone got a better line here?

spentrent

03-02-2005, 02:39 AM

Re-raise all-in pre-flop and bask in the satisfaction of being called by AQ and AJ.

ChrisV

03-02-2005, 02:43 AM

You should not flat call here. Decide whether to fold or reraise allin. Allin is right at this level IMO.

Edit: To explain further, you can't call because the raise is too large a percentage of your stack.

spentrent

03-02-2005, 02:49 AM

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You should not flat call here. Decide whether to fold or reraise allin. Allin is right at this level IMO.

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How would you play this hand in Level 1 of a $215? Does a push so obviously indicate AK that one of the earlier actors would be willing to take a small edge with 22-QQ?

In your experience, is the concentration of skilled players high enough to make it correct to exploit any edge ASAP? So how often are you pushing/folding?

dfscott

03-02-2005, 10:05 AM

[ QUOTE ]
You should not flat call here. Decide whether to fold or reraise allin. Allin is right at this level IMO.

Edit: To explain further, you can't call because the raise is too large a percentage of your stack.

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This is because of the 5/10 rule, right? IIRC, it says, "you can call a bet that's less than 5% of your stack, but you can't call a bet that's more than 10% of your stack. Between 5 and 10 is the gray area."

Since this is 100/785 = 12.7%, I gotta either raise or fold, right? If so, is raising the pot here correct (~t200) or should I bet more with 2 callers? (Of course, if I'm betting much more than t200, with my stack size I'm probably going all in.)