standard bubble play?

[benneh]

villain has built his stack up to 20k about twice and then gone back down to 10k or so. seems competent. i have control of the table and have been raising a lot of pots.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP1 (t10094)
MP2 (t23742)
MP3 (t11764)
CO (t8389)
Button (t16493)
Hero (t30348)
BB (t3571)
UTG (t3395)
UTG+1 (t5365)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A/images/graemlins/club.gif, J/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to t1200</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t4800</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, CO calls t3600.

Flop: (t9950) 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 8/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t3539</font>, CO calls t3539 (All-In).

Turn: (t17028) K/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t17028) 7/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t17028

[Pondy]

was he holding a pair ?

[benneh]

nope.

[Hofzinser]

Surely the best play would have been to push pre-flop?

You're pretty much committed if he pushes to your re-reraise anyway.

[schwza]

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Surely the best play would have been to push pre-flop?

You're pretty much committed if he pushes to your re-reraise anyway.

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this was my first reaction, too, but if villain has AQ (and maybe AK), he may call and then talk himself into a bad fold on the flop because the bubble's coming, which would obviously be a huge score for you.

how close to bubble, btw?