Gus Hansen'ed the hell outta the blind from button

RiverTheNuts · #1 02-25-2005, 01:28 PM

I have ~1600, BB has around 700, Blinds are 50/100, 5 players left. I raise to 250 on button w/ 45s. He pushes, I decide that if he doesnt have a pair that I have pot odds to call. I decide he doesnt, and then get berated when I hit a pair to his AQo.

Anyone else call the BB push with that hand??

EDIT - 2 others had 400 and 300, and the big stack had like 4000, so I was pretty safe to get ITM, and was giving myself a chance to battle big stack, does this change anything?

prunch · #2 02-25-2005, 01:40 PM

i'm afraid i'l have to say no!

spentrent · #3 02-25-2005, 01:51 PM

If you trust your read then hell yeah. There are certainly a lot more card combinations for a strong ace than there are for pocket pairs.

UMTerp · #4 02-25-2005, 01:59 PM

It's a pretty bad raise to begin with (given the stacks of the two players in the blinds), but the call isn't terrible given the situation you got yourself into.

Myst · #5 02-25-2005, 02:01 PM

B/c the blinds are so small, and the other two stacks are so small, I say this is a marginal call AT BEST. The reason is the range of hands BB will push with. Since you know that he knows that the other 2 stacks are close to busting out, he will only push with the best hands, probably AQ+, AA-TT. Against that range of hands, you are only a 31.5 % fav. With those numbers, you dont have odds to call and you damage your stack size in the process.

RiverTheNuts · #6 02-25-2005, 02:01 PM

NM

curtains · #7 02-25-2005, 02:04 PM

I would generally fold after the reraise because his standards should tighten due to the 2 extremely short stacks and I feel that it's more likely than usual he would have an overpair.

Also if you call this hand and lose, you are definitely in some real danger of bubbling. Shortstacks double up on their BB quite often.

I think if you put him on an overpair 40-50% of the time, it's a fold.

UMTerp · #8 02-25-2005, 02:06 PM

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you are only a 31.5 % fav. With those numbers, you dont have odds to call

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Actually, he does, if you're looking solely at Chip-EV. There's 1050 in the pot, and it's 450 to call. $-EV is probably slightly negative if your range of hands is correct, but I'd expand it a little.

FWIW, I'd fold too, but there have been worse calls in the history of poker.