09-16-2005, 01:21 AM
Playing a 10+1 sng on Party. Table was aggressive at first, then calmed down a bit. I saw this as an opportunity to start getting jiggy with it. Fortunately I started getting hands so I could do so more than planned. Anyways, villain was playing solid, raising now & then, but playing somewhat conservative. Meanwhile, I had been raising and check-raising a LOT lately, so I'm sure people figured me to be somewhat of a maniac for the time being. Here's the hand in question:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)
BB (t2105)
Hero (t1730)
MP1 (t1270)
MP2 (t985)
CO (t905)
Button (t250)
SB (t755)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, T/images/graemlins/heart.gif. Hero raises to 475. Everyone else folds, BB goes Allin. Hero ?????
My thinking at the time was that he had been seeing me bully the table for a while, and figured I was doing it again. He knew he had me covered, and I wouldn't call unless I had a legitimate hand, which would be less likely than usual as per my previous aggression. This is why I considered calling. Is this good reasoning?? Would this reasoning work better in higher buy-in sng/tournies?? And if I knew he had a legitimate hand, what hand range would you think he had here? My guess would be 88+ and AK/AQ maybe?? I'm just starting to play more tournaments so bare with me if this is stupid or anything /images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)
BB (t2105)
Hero (t1730)
MP1 (t1270)
MP2 (t985)
CO (t905)
Button (t250)
SB (t755)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, T/images/graemlins/heart.gif. Hero raises to 475. Everyone else folds, BB goes Allin. Hero ?????
My thinking at the time was that he had been seeing me bully the table for a while, and figured I was doing it again. He knew he had me covered, and I wouldn't call unless I had a legitimate hand, which would be less likely than usual as per my previous aggression. This is why I considered calling. Is this good reasoning?? Would this reasoning work better in higher buy-in sng/tournies?? And if I knew he had a legitimate hand, what hand range would you think he had here? My guess would be 88+ and AK/AQ maybe?? I'm just starting to play more tournaments so bare with me if this is stupid or anything /images/graemlins/tongue.gif