09-15-2005, 09:49 AM
This is a hand from my tournament last night.
The table currently has 6 players on. The blinds are 25/50, it is pot limit and the starting stacks are 1000. This is a rebuy tournament.
I am UTG+1,
CO is quite a tricky player likes to bluff and doesn't play that many hands.
Button is a very poor player, can't even read the board, however doesn't play that many hands.
I have passed every hand for 3 rounds now, getting a very tight image, but in all honesty I was dealt 2-x every hand, QT in UTG and some other pretty rubbish hands. I decide to use my image to take a pot, I raise pot from UTG + 1 with 77. I think that from the way I have played that if I flop a set I might get paid by any pair aswell as being able to use my image to steal the pot if they make a higher medium pair.
CO calls, Button calls, Blinds fold,
Pot is now 175 from me, 75 blinds, 175 each from CO and Button. Total : 600
Flop comes : 783
I bet out 275, my total stack here is 1000 - 175 = 825.
Both opponents have around 1000 aswell so chip stacks are equal.
CO calls getting 875 : 275, roughly 3.2 : 1. Dealer Folded
Pot now : 1150
Turn : T
I bet 400 into this pot, CO raises and I call.
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My bet on the turn was based on thinking that it would be a mistake for anyone to call as implied odds will not be better than 5.2 : 1 for the CO unless dealer calls. The dealer showed weakness preflop where he called without realising that I had raised and was forced to put in the raise amount. He quickly folded after the CO called.
The table currently has 6 players on. The blinds are 25/50, it is pot limit and the starting stacks are 1000. This is a rebuy tournament.
I am UTG+1,
CO is quite a tricky player likes to bluff and doesn't play that many hands.
Button is a very poor player, can't even read the board, however doesn't play that many hands.
I have passed every hand for 3 rounds now, getting a very tight image, but in all honesty I was dealt 2-x every hand, QT in UTG and some other pretty rubbish hands. I decide to use my image to take a pot, I raise pot from UTG + 1 with 77. I think that from the way I have played that if I flop a set I might get paid by any pair aswell as being able to use my image to steal the pot if they make a higher medium pair.
CO calls, Button calls, Blinds fold,
Pot is now 175 from me, 75 blinds, 175 each from CO and Button. Total : 600
Flop comes : 783
I bet out 275, my total stack here is 1000 - 175 = 825.
Both opponents have around 1000 aswell so chip stacks are equal.
CO calls getting 875 : 275, roughly 3.2 : 1. Dealer Folded
Pot now : 1150
Turn : T
I bet 400 into this pot, CO raises and I call.
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My bet on the turn was based on thinking that it would be a mistake for anyone to call as implied odds will not be better than 5.2 : 1 for the CO unless dealer calls. The dealer showed weakness preflop where he called without realising that I had raised and was forced to put in the raise amount. He quickly folded after the CO called.