SoCalPat
04-19-2003, 02:37 AM
Relatively new poster here, slightly more experienced player. In short, bear with me.
I'm in a LHE tournament in SoCal and catching very little. The bad news (aside from being short-stacked, less than T-2,500 with 800-1,600 blinds) is I've won but one pot by getting the table to fold. The good news is I've won all my showdowns -- all six of them in nearly four hours.
That's not enough in a 200-plus person tournament. That said, there's five tables left, all with 7-8 players. Top 27 spots pay.
Sooooo ... with barely enough to cover my impending blinds (and I know they'll be attacked), I look down to see 88 UTG. In the big blind is a friendly sort who knows I don't mess around when raising (my showdown hands won were KJ, AQ, AK, KK and QQ, and I raised pre-flop on the latter four). However, he's the second-biggest stack at the table. I know little about the small blind.
I raise, folded to the blinds, who call.
Flop comes 9-7-3 rainbow. Blinds check, and I stick the rest out.
I watch the rest of the hand, two more little cards come out, so there's a straight possibility out there, but the BB turns over J9o and I'm out.
Question: Given my circumstances, do you raise pre-flop, and do you check along post-flop? I figured given my pre-flop raise, I had to bet that board on the flop. But any other opinions would be much appreciated.
I'm in a LHE tournament in SoCal and catching very little. The bad news (aside from being short-stacked, less than T-2,500 with 800-1,600 blinds) is I've won but one pot by getting the table to fold. The good news is I've won all my showdowns -- all six of them in nearly four hours.
That's not enough in a 200-plus person tournament. That said, there's five tables left, all with 7-8 players. Top 27 spots pay.
Sooooo ... with barely enough to cover my impending blinds (and I know they'll be attacked), I look down to see 88 UTG. In the big blind is a friendly sort who knows I don't mess around when raising (my showdown hands won were KJ, AQ, AK, KK and QQ, and I raised pre-flop on the latter four). However, he's the second-biggest stack at the table. I know little about the small blind.
I raise, folded to the blinds, who call.
Flop comes 9-7-3 rainbow. Blinds check, and I stick the rest out.
I watch the rest of the hand, two more little cards come out, so there's a straight possibility out there, but the BB turns over J9o and I'm out.
Question: Given my circumstances, do you raise pre-flop, and do you check along post-flop? I figured given my pre-flop raise, I had to bet that board on the flop. But any other opinions would be much appreciated.