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housenuts
10-07-2005, 07:54 PM
Stars $15+1 Turbo

no reads. UTG just lost the last pot.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

<font color="#C00000">SB (t1155)</font>
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t1535)</font>
<font color="#C00000">UTG (t565)</font>
UTG+1 (t1320)
MP1 (t1030)
MP2 (t3475)
MP3 (t1430)
CO (t1735)
Button (t1255)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t200</font>, <font color="#666666">6 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to t800</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero ?
10-07-2005, 08:20 PM
The blinds are getting higher, but not high enough yet. Perhaps wait to the next level before pushing with this hand.

I dont like to take coinflips until the blinds justify it... which will be the next level. Let the other two UTG and BB, duke it out.
lastchance
10-07-2005, 08:26 PM
Shove it.
10-07-2005, 08:30 PM
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Shove it.

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Really? BB is only t100. And he is sitting on t1535 in chips... you think there is a reason to commit to this pot by shoving with two people who we already know are going to be allin on this hand?
lastchance
10-07-2005, 08:32 PM
T525 guy is pretty desperate. T1000 guy could have quite a few hands. And I like AK a lot.
pineapple888
10-07-2005, 08:37 PM
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10-07-2005, 08:38 PM
Okie dokie, I understand now.

Heh, sorry.

Asking questions is the only way to get smarter. /images/graemlins/smile.gif Maybe next time I will now call in this position. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
10-07-2005, 08:41 PM
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I saw that /images/graemlins/wink.gif

What do you really think?
10-07-2005, 08:43 PM
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I saw that /images/graemlins/wink.gif

What do you really think?

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Hmmm. So he deletes his post/opinion on this issue huh? LOL!

Maybe my original thinking was write on this one.

(shrugs)

Oh well, I still think fold.
pineapple888
10-07-2005, 08:44 PM
Actually, I think I was wrong. Posted too fast, then wasn't fast enough on the delete key. Sorry about that.

I'm now thinking this is a fold, but I'll let others puzzle it out.
10-07-2005, 08:47 PM
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Actually, I think I was wrong. Posted too fast, then wasn't fast enough on the delete key. Sorry about that.

I'm now thinking this is a fold, but I'll let others puzzle it out.

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Uh-huh! So I was right to begin with! LOL!
lastchance
10-07-2005, 08:48 PM
Maybe fold is right. Maybe I give too little credit to reshove guy.
Fletch46
10-07-2005, 10:34 PM
I hate AK. I raise like most people say I should, miss the flop and then what ????? I understand the value of raising having knocked someone out of a tournament recently with my 75s in an unraised pot (flop K75 and he went AI - sweet, sweet sweet). But mostly I just want to do what the ING guy says - save my money! But I know it's wrong. The confusion continues . . .
Cactus Jack
10-08-2005, 04:05 AM
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I hate AK. I raise like most people say I should, miss the flop and then what ????? The confusion continues . . .

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AK is a moneymaker for me. Most people overvalue it. Lose enough to the Mighty Ducks--22--and it will drive the point home.

AK is a drawing hand. Most opponents play it like it was a made hand, like they've got a weak AA or something. It's not. I know this. They don't. That's why it's a moneymaker for me.

Housenuts, nice hand post, btw. This is another in a series of nice hand posts I've seen here lately.

I honestly don't know and that's the truth. Put me in this exact spot 10 times and I play it both ways 5 each, I think. It really is a case I'd have to be sitting there at the time. It's that close, to me. My first thought was call the all in. My second thought was there are still a lot of players and as this is PS (right?), there's still a lot of time left. I'd hate to let this one go, but I probably would. Close call.

CJ