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AA suited
03-20-2005, 02:04 PM
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP2 (t730)
HERO (t1150)
Button (t930)
SB (t1205)
BB (t1220)
UTG (t1145)
UTG+1 (t1645)
MP1 (t1975)

Preflop: HERO is CO with T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t200</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">HERO raises to t1150 (All-In)</font>,

No reads since I was multi-tabling.

My experience has been that min raisers are weak, and will fold to strength.

Should I have just called instead?

What would you have done?

gasgod
03-20-2005, 02:28 PM
With position on the raiser, I would want to see a flop. There's no hurry to go all-in. If my stack were bigger, I might reraise to try to drive out the players behind me, but I'm not prepared to stake everything on this hand.

JMHO. I'm interested to see what good players think.


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Bigwig
03-20-2005, 02:30 PM
I'd muck.

AA suited
03-20-2005, 03:32 PM
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I'd muck.

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hm.. i see your point. even though it's a min raise, it's still a raise. and it's from early position. and this is a 50+5.

i have nothing invested in the pot, and i have 11BB so i'm nowhere close to desparate.

if he just limped, i would have limped. if he raised 2.5BB+, i would have folded.

i guess min raisers are a leak for me.

11t
03-20-2005, 03:34 PM
I think this is a fairly read dependant decision, if I noticed the person was doing a lot of min raising and was an overall poor player than I might push. I am kind of concerned by the fact that he min-raised in such an early position, I would be far more inclined to push from the SB with AT vs a min-raise from the CO when it is folded to him than in this position.

Did he have aces?

kdotsky
03-20-2005, 03:56 PM
I'd muck too. But if he just limps, I'd either fold or push. WIth about 10BB and 8 people still left, I like pushing here sometimes. Do you play on stars?

microbet
03-20-2005, 05:43 PM
I don't really like a call much because you won't have any idea where you are at after the flop and not a deep enough stack to try and figure it out.

With no read, I would fold here with less than AJs or maybe AQ, or 99+.