Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

Full 3/6 Table. It was short for awhile, then filled up.

New player posts UTG and checks, UTG+2 raises leaving himself with $1, MP 3-bets leaving himself with $7, you're on the button with ATo, both blinds are reasonably tight.

Cap, Call, or Fold?

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

Fold. AT off is too weak and too likely dominated to play here imo.

Mike Emery

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

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Full 3/6 Table. It was short for awhile, then filled up.

New player posts UTG and checks, UTG+2 raises leaving himself with $1, MP 3-bets leaving himself with $7, you're on the button with ATo, both blinds are reasonably tight.
Cap, Call, or Fold?

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If you think you can fold out the blinds - cap. By capping you are severly cutting down on the implied odds for the blinds and the UTG poster. They will not be able to win enough from the short stacks who will be all-in on the flop to make loose calls profitable for themselves. Furthermore, too often at 2/4 (it may be different at 3/6) I see players who are shortstacked willing to go in with almost anything. I think you have the best hand out of the two short stacks over 50% of the time you're playing against a random hand from the UTG poster and if the blinds are tight enough your cap may even get a fold from a better hand (AJo/AQo).

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

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Furthermore, too often at 2/4 (it may be different at 3/6) I see players who are shortstacked willing to go in with almost anything.

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I agree, but this thing is going to showdown, and IMO ATo is just too weak.

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

easy fold.

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

I let this go. Yeah short stacks are sometimes reckless, and the 3-bet could just be to isolate the other one, but I still see you being dominated too much on this one.

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

fold.

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

Fold.

... and it's not even close.


Adam

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

There are three arguments in favor of capping. First, players who are close to being all-in will raise/3-bet lighter than they would otherwise. Second, we have a UTG poster which both increases the amount of money in the pot AND increases the chances that the other are raising light. Finally, even if we are dominated, it will not be as costly as it would if we were in the position of pouring more money in on later streets with a second best hand. We are, in esssence going to be getting free cards to draw out on the hands that dominate us, if they are there. (Of course, this works both ways.)

The only time capping is a big mistake is if one of our opponents has a pocket pair bigger than 9s and the other holds an ace. If they both hold Ax (and one dominates us), we are only slightly behind pot-equity wise.

So I guess the answer to the question depends on the opponents. Are they steaming? Did they just lose a big pot and are now looking to lose the rest and quit? If I thought that was even a possibility, I would probably go ahead and cap it. Otherwise I would throw it away and not feel bad about it.

Re: Easy Preflop Question 3/6
 

I think this is a cap or fold, leaning toward a fold.

I have a personal theorem that dictates always re-raising any playable hand versus an all-in first-in preflop raiser...this plays in along those lines but not quite. Maybe if it was soooted. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]