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durron597
05-23-2005, 09:44 AM
This hand is from a HH that another poster sent me. What do you think of this play?

Edit: MP1 really didn't seem to be raising too out of line, he was more a fan of limping than raising.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t3455)
Hero (t800)
BB (t1605)
UTG (t1140)
MP1 (t1015)
MP2 (t1240)
CO (t745)

Preflop: Hero is SB with T/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#222222">1 fold,</font> MP1 raises to <font color="#0000FF">(t350)</font>, <font color="#222222">3 folds,</font> Hero raises to <font color="#0000FF">(t800 - all-in)</font>
hummusx
05-23-2005, 09:52 AM
I don't like this play. You have 8xBB, so you're not super desparate yet. You opponent has put 1/3 of his stack in, and will be getting almost 3:1 on your push to call, so you have almost no FE I think. So if we think we're playing this hand to the river, we have to ask what he has. He's in early position and has a bigger stack than you, so he should be less desparate than you are. We also know he tends to limp instead of raise. So I think there's a pretty good chance we are looking at a hand we are losing to, and a good chance we are completely dominated (AJ or AQ).

Fold and wait for another spot to push.
zambonidrivr
05-23-2005, 09:52 AM
horrible. a 10 is weak. you could push this if there had been no prior raises.
gasgod
05-23-2005, 09:55 AM
Villain has an automatic call based on pot odds, so there's little chance of pushing him off a better hand. Given the read on MP1, I don't like it. What are you ahead of?

GG
durron597
05-23-2005, 10:33 AM
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Villain has an automatic call based on pot odds, so there's little chance of pushing him off a better hand. Given the read on MP1, I don't like it. What are you ahead of?

GG

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Alright, I'm glad the replies so far all agree with me. But I thought that this kind of play might be required in these sorts of tourneys in order to have any chance of building a stack before blinding out.
zambonidrivr
05-23-2005, 10:35 AM
you are not desparate yet