This is not a bad beat post

[ddubois]

Please do not reply "This is why I like party" or "Go play chess, you won't get sucked out on"! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Party Poker No-Limit $10/1 Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (8 handed) converter

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

<font color="C00000">Hero (t775)</font>
SB (t725)
BB (t1650)
UTG (t1045)
UTG+1 (t495)
MP1 (t700)
<font color="C00000">MP2 (t1675)</font>
CO (t935)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="CC3333">MP2 raises to t100</font>, <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t775 (All-In)</font>, <font color="666666">2 folds</font>, MP2 calls t675.

Flop: (t1575) 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Turn: (t1575) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t1575) J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t1575
<font color="green">Main Pot: t1575 (t1575), between Hero and MP2.</font> &gt; <font color="white">Pot won by MP2 (t1575).</font>

Results in white below: <font color="white">
MP2 shows Ad 9h (two pair, aces and nines).
Hero shows Kc As (one pair, aces).
Outcome: MP2 wins t1575. </font>

I'm having trouble thinking about this hand without being results-oriented. If instead of pushing, I had re-raised him, say 300, we should think he would call, right? I mean, logicically, if he would call an all-in, he would call any re-raise? Or is it possible that pushing somehow represented weakness to this guy? Is trying to guess what he was thinking pointless?

If I reraise preflop to 300, and he called, I'm going to be pushing on that flop, so I'm going to lose regardless, but with the line I took, at least I got all my money in while I was a 3:1 favorite. If I had done the reraise/flop-push line, I would be putting in most of my stack when I'm a big underdog. So, looking at it in a Fundamental Theory sense, I played "perfectly", but I still don't quite feel right about it.