DarrenX
06-29-2005, 12:52 PM
11-person $100 event, down to 4, top 3 pay. Blinds at 400/800. 33000 chips in play, stacks are as follows:
UTG- T9800. Maniac who obviously doesn't care about the money- likes making moves, stands up to what he percieves to be moves from others. Lucked his way to get here. LAAAAG.
Button- 8100. Seemed solid but a little on the tight side. He hadn't reraised all tourney until a couple hands ago when I folded my AJ to his smallish suspicious raise and he showed KK (had the odds to call but went with my read).
SB- 3100. My buddy that I know his playing style very well, as we've played 200ish heads up tourneys. Very tricky, capable of up and downshifting when necessary... at this point the table perceives him as tight/solid.
BB(Me)- T12000 shown signs of looseness, but shown down mostly solid hands. As of late my open raises hadn't been getting any callers.
So, then hand in question. With 400/800, UTG LAG raises to 1800- no need to suspect a monster, was a fairly standard raise for him. All fold to me with AJo.
NOW- in a SNG on-line, I think it'd be an easy push. What makes me hesitate here is my lack of FE against the maniac. I figure to be ahead and at the very worst a coin flip here if and when he calls, but is it a big enough edge to throw my chip lead away to a guy that will eventually hang himself?
It's been months since I played a live tourney, so I may be overthinking this... just seemed like I had a better read on everyone as it was live, and wondered if those additional reads made it a good idea to wait for a better opportunity.
Oh yeah, and it was really weird to see that big round orb in the sky- you guys call it the "sun", right? /images/graemlins/wink.gif
UTG- T9800. Maniac who obviously doesn't care about the money- likes making moves, stands up to what he percieves to be moves from others. Lucked his way to get here. LAAAAG.
Button- 8100. Seemed solid but a little on the tight side. He hadn't reraised all tourney until a couple hands ago when I folded my AJ to his smallish suspicious raise and he showed KK (had the odds to call but went with my read).
SB- 3100. My buddy that I know his playing style very well, as we've played 200ish heads up tourneys. Very tricky, capable of up and downshifting when necessary... at this point the table perceives him as tight/solid.
BB(Me)- T12000 shown signs of looseness, but shown down mostly solid hands. As of late my open raises hadn't been getting any callers.
So, then hand in question. With 400/800, UTG LAG raises to 1800- no need to suspect a monster, was a fairly standard raise for him. All fold to me with AJo.
NOW- in a SNG on-line, I think it'd be an easy push. What makes me hesitate here is my lack of FE against the maniac. I figure to be ahead and at the very worst a coin flip here if and when he calls, but is it a big enough edge to throw my chip lead away to a guy that will eventually hang himself?
It's been months since I played a live tourney, so I may be overthinking this... just seemed like I had a better read on everyone as it was live, and wondered if those additional reads made it a good idea to wait for a better opportunity.
Oh yeah, and it was really weird to see that big round orb in the sky- you guys call it the "sun", right? /images/graemlins/wink.gif