Preflop raises shorthanded

[durron597]

SB in the first hand was pretty loose-passive, and had miniraised over limpers a bunch of times. This was the first time I saw him miniraise a preflop raise.

In the second hand, MP was playing about 35% of hands, calling raises and raising himself (though not really reraising) - except the one hand where he was shortstacked and pushed over a raise with JJ. Then he doubled through me calling a raise to 90 (15/30 blinds) in the BB with 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif to eventually make trips and crack my KK.

In the third hand, villian had been playing pretty tight preflop, but I pushed because it was 5 handed and thus I thought that gave me enough of an edge for it to be correct. Note that level 3 had just started and we hadn't played that many hands.


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UTG (t865)
Hero (t2480)
SB (t3940)
BB (t4715)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t300</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to t500</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t2480</font>,


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MP (t1318)
Button (t1177)
Hero (t1655)
BB (t3525)
UTG (t1325)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP raises to t150</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1655</font>,


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (4 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

BB (t2526)
UTG (t1185)
Button (t4129)
Hero (t1160)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t200</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1160</font>,

[NYCNative]

Those hands are monesters 4-handed. No problam with you pushing them all day.

[durron597]

Hand #4: SB in this hand had just called a preflop raise with 53o and crippled the CO who had raised with KJo and flopped TP - SB calls the flop bet and hits his 3rd 5 on the turn.

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MP (t2810)
CO (t420)
Hero (t1390)
SB (t2120)
BB (t1300)
UTG (t960)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q/images/graemlins/club.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP calls t30, CO calls t30, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t150</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to t420</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP folds, CO calls t390 (All-In), <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1390</font>,

[dan123]

usually with aces i try to make the other player go all in first. sometimes theres an aggresive player who wants to rase me and i fold ig dont have aces, unless a jack cums.

-dan

[durron597]

[ QUOTE ]
usually with aces i try to make the other player go all in first. sometimes theres an aggresive player who wants to rase me and i fold ig dont have aces, unless a jack cums. im sorry that this post has absolutely nothing to do with your thread and is kinda sick

-dan

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fyp

[durron597]

I'm wondering if #2 is too big of an overbet. But is raising to 400 and folding to a push better?

[durron597]

Dominated in all 4 cases.

#1 AK vs. KK
#2 AQ vs. AK
#3 AQ vs. AK
#4 QQ vs. AA

If I considered these a bad beat I wouldn't have posted them, but I made a FToP mistake in each case - is it possible to get away? The blinds are still pretty small.