11-11-2005, 11:54 AM
In last nights 3R on stars I was involved in a hand that I feel was a key hand in the later stage of the tournament for me.
There were about 100 players left out of 1300+ so we are in the money already. 1000/2000 blinds with 200 ante. I was in the SB and looked down at AA - stack of 26k after posting the small blind. All folds to the CO (36k stack) who open raises a standard 3xBB and the button folds. A reraise from me is going to surely pot commit me and I wanted to try and ensure this was heads up so I pushed to ensure the BB (100k+ stack) didn't call with odds to try and bust us both. Villain thought for a moment and folded.
Looking back I think that perhaps I should have smooth called his raise and jammed any flop. I may have even gotten an overcall from the BB and let him catch something on the flop too. I feel I missed out on a good chance to accumulate chips here by playing the hand too aggressively preflop. If I were able to extract more in this situation I would have had a good chance to go on to a final table.
Do you agree that a stop n go here is probably more +EV than a preflop push? I'm not usually looking for places to pull this off, but hindsight tells me that this is probably the perfect spot to either do that or smooth call and check any flop so the PFR can lead out and then reraise allin if his bet isn't big enough to do that from the start. Another line I had also thought of post-play was to reraise about half my stack with plans of jamming any flop but that looked a little too fishy to me with only 11BB remaining.
Did I push too hard preflop? Is there one move that would be more preferable than the other? Do you want to reveal the strength of your hand preflop by reraising and hope for a call or do you just let villain see a flop and hope he makes a worse hand that he'll call a push with?
There were about 100 players left out of 1300+ so we are in the money already. 1000/2000 blinds with 200 ante. I was in the SB and looked down at AA - stack of 26k after posting the small blind. All folds to the CO (36k stack) who open raises a standard 3xBB and the button folds. A reraise from me is going to surely pot commit me and I wanted to try and ensure this was heads up so I pushed to ensure the BB (100k+ stack) didn't call with odds to try and bust us both. Villain thought for a moment and folded.
Looking back I think that perhaps I should have smooth called his raise and jammed any flop. I may have even gotten an overcall from the BB and let him catch something on the flop too. I feel I missed out on a good chance to accumulate chips here by playing the hand too aggressively preflop. If I were able to extract more in this situation I would have had a good chance to go on to a final table.
Do you agree that a stop n go here is probably more +EV than a preflop push? I'm not usually looking for places to pull this off, but hindsight tells me that this is probably the perfect spot to either do that or smooth call and check any flop so the PFR can lead out and then reraise allin if his bet isn't big enough to do that from the start. Another line I had also thought of post-play was to reraise about half my stack with plans of jamming any flop but that looked a little too fishy to me with only 11BB remaining.
Did I push too hard preflop? Is there one move that would be more preferable than the other? Do you want to reveal the strength of your hand preflop by reraising and hope for a call or do you just let villain see a flop and hope he makes a worse hand that he'll call a push with?