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Roland32
09-22-2005, 11:36 AM
$27 PS turbo
Well reraiser looks like he is putting on a move here which prob mean med PP. Original raisor could have something, so I folded
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP1 (t1220)
MP2 (t1120)
MP3 (t1470)
CO (t1490)
Hero (t1450)
SB (t1480)
BB (t2090)
UTG (t1460)
UTG+1 (t1720)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises to t120</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 raises to t1470</font>, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, MP2 folds.

Final Pot: t1620

downtown
09-22-2005, 11:37 AM
Easy fold for me.

Indiana
09-22-2005, 11:39 AM
I'd fold. At the VERY best you will be a coinflip here and there is a reasonable probability you will be worse than that.

Indy

pokerlaw
09-22-2005, 11:41 AM
easy fold. i fold JJ here also.

Dr_Jeckyl_00
09-22-2005, 11:42 AM
Easier said than done, but learning to fold AK early on when others are very interested in the pot and you have the BENEFIT of position, is probably +EV.

barry111
09-22-2005, 11:51 AM
The thing that makes this an easy fold is it is level 1. I would fold hooks here as well. If it was later in the game and you had some reads on these two it might be a different story.

09-22-2005, 11:51 AM
Despite it being Turbo, I would fold based on the bets ahead of you, and the fact that if MP2 calls, you could be betting your tourney life on a 3 handed pot in which you at beast would be rougly a 1/3 fav. Even if MP3 had just gone allin, there is a good chance you would be on the wrong side of a coin toss, though it would be at least a reasonable call if he was known by you to be a loose/agressive and weak player. IMO, it being early, you fold and pick a better spot.

09-22-2005, 11:56 AM
I fold there all the time, sometimes they show AT but not often. The trick is not falling in love with your hand before the action gets to you