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JoshNjuice
09-20-2005, 11:53 PM
I have been at this table for 10 hands and haven't seen this opponent play too many hands. I have seen him limp in a few pots, but that's about it.

I still don't know what I should've done. I've included everything I had to make my decision at the time (including table chatter). I'd like to hear what y'all would've done here.

Thanks in advance for your feedback

JoshNjuice

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

UTG+1 ($28.75)
MP1 ($25.30)
MP2 <font color="#A500AF"> OtherDude</font> ($58.65)
CO ($20)
Hero ($19.25)
SB ($27.05)
BB ($9)
UTG ($69.75)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif. CO posts a blind of $0.50.
UTG calls $0.50, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP2 <font color="#A500AF"> OtherDude calls $0.50</font> , CO (poster) checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $3</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG folds, MP2 <font color="#A500AF"> OtherDude calls $2.50</font>, CO folds.

Flop: ($7.75) K/images/graemlins/heart.gif, J/images/graemlins/heart.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
OtherDude checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $5</font>, OtherDude calls $5.

Turn: ($17.75) T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
OtherDude bets $50.65 (All-In),

{Table chatter after his all-in}

SomeGuy, "hes got it"
AnotherGuy said, "u think he called 5 with an ace?"
AnotherGuy said, "maybe pair and ace, whatever"
OtherDude (who had moved all-in) said, "maybe a suited ace"
AnotherGuy said, "lol"

{end table chatter}

<font color="#CC3333">Hero ??????</font>

EDITED: to remove players' names from chatter. Also, it should be noted that his "all-in" was reduced to my remaining $11.25.

MINETZ
09-20-2005, 11:55 PM
fold, hes not going to make this move without an ace, as you are very likely to have an ace.

kongo_totte
09-21-2005, 12:00 AM
Fold, and don't think twice about it.

wdeadwyler
09-21-2005, 12:05 AM
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fold, hes not going to make this move without an ace, as you are very likely to have an ace.

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Larimani
09-21-2005, 12:11 AM
I call. this is micro-stakes. more often than not you'll be in front.

nebben
09-21-2005, 12:30 AM
that is false.

MINETZ
09-21-2005, 12:32 AM
so wrong u are.

mason55
09-21-2005, 12:37 AM
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I call. this is micro-stakes. more often than not you'll be in front.

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I really really can't ever see him being in front here. And no way he's in the lead enough to make this call profitably. He might have gotten bluffed this hand but I guarantee you can't make this call profitably, even at these stakes.

Larimani
09-21-2005, 12:47 AM
why would he go all-in here if he had the nut straight?? Surely he would try to extract more out of this hand. I'm 80% confident that he's got two pairs. I know I'm being result oriented but I'd love to know the results of that hand.

MINETZ
09-21-2005, 01:29 AM
ill bet any amount at 4-1 that he had an ace.

J Chap
09-21-2005, 01:52 AM
2 things

Thing 1) what about how pot committed hero is (he's got just short of 50% of his stack in this pot right now.

He's putting $11 into a pot of $27 at this point.

Thing 2) even if villain has the damn ace, hero has 1 king, 3 queens, 3 jacks, 3 tens = 10 outs to win. Plus he has 3 aces to split.


I'm not good enough at all the stats, but does that not affect anything?

LaramieJC
09-21-2005, 02:03 AM
I call here. Getting just over 2.5:1 with 10 outs to win and 3 to tie if he does indeed have an A, I think this is +EV. The fact that he immediately leads with the push when the scare card fell makes me think that there is even a good chance you are ahead at this point and up against a semi-bluff.

nietzreznor
09-21-2005, 02:04 AM
I call. The pot is $18, he bets $11, so you have to call $11 to win $29, which is almost 3:1. You fill up ~20% of the time you are behind, and you will split when an ace falls (2 or 3 outs to split). This together with the times you are ahead (probably not often, but certainly you will be ahead sometimes), and I think calling is probably slightly +EV here.

kurto
09-21-2005, 02:41 AM
There's a good chance he has 1 less out then you're saying. Villian if he's not a total lag, will likely have a broadway kicker. It may not change things much but that's likely to be one less out.

10 outs at the max to win is less then 3-1.

If the villain has an ace, Worse case scenario (A-2)... according to the pokercalculator, hero only has a 26% of winning. Hes not getting 4-1 on his money.

That would change if you think there's a decent chance he's bluffing, but I don't think he is. The villain has to consider the possibility that the hero raised with a hand like AK... I don't think 99% of players do this without an ace.

JoshNjuice
09-21-2005, 11:18 PM
I'm glad to see this has generated a little discussion.

I called. He had Ah9h (broadway with the nut flush draw) and I spiked a K on the river for quads to win the hand. I'm still not convinced that I made the wrong call.

(In the moment, I was ball-parking these numbers and they led me to make the call after almost all my time bank had expired) The numbers work out to be pretty close. If he has an Ace (and not a K, Q, J or T), then I have 10 outs to win and 3 to split. I'll call that 11.5 outs and a 26% chance--right at 1:3--to "not lose". I'm getting a little better than 2.4:1 on my money (I get the "1" to be 29.4%). So, the difference between my pot odds and odds of not losing is 29.4 - 26 = 3.4%

The decision to call or fold basically comes down to the answer to the question "How likely is the villain to be bluffing here?". My math says he needs only be bluffing about 3% of the time to make the call break-even. That means I break even if he's bluffing about 1 in 30 hands. I think that's uber likely in this situation.

Ok, now it's time for those of you who understand this game and the math to tell me why I'm wrong. Let me have it!

JoshNjuice