Party $55 - AQs in SB, facing raise....

octaveshift · #1 07-17-2005, 08:43 PM

For some reason, this hand gave me a lot of trouble. Do I really want to call this without position?

Button hadn't been too out of line, up to this point.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (7 handed) http://216.119.70.224/converter/hhconverter.pl

UTG (t1800)
MP1 (t1340)
MP2 (t970)
CO (t805)
Button (t2205)
Hero (t2065)
BB (t815)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t350</font>, Hero ?????

bluefeet · #2 07-17-2005, 08:47 PM

yeah, don't like these suckers. if i had 1/2 a nad, i'd let it rip over top. raising makes it extremely difficult to play the flop. me, i just call. making a pot sized bet on a Q-high, A-high, 2-diamond flop....check/fold otherwise [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

tshort · #3 07-17-2005, 08:48 PM

Seems like a blind steal to me. He could raise with a wide range here. I don't think a call is correct, you most likely have the better hand. I think you should reraise to around 750.

adanthar · #4 07-17-2005, 08:49 PM

My typical play is to push here. You can also call and hope the BB pushes, but raising to 1K will pot commit you for no good reason.

octaveshift · #5 07-17-2005, 08:52 PM

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i just call.

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Button raises [350].
Hero calls [275].
BB calls [200].

** Dealing Flop ** [ 5h, 2h, 3d ]

Hero.. check folds?

adanthar · #6 07-17-2005, 08:54 PM

Pretty much, unless he minbets or something.

bluefeet · #7 07-17-2005, 08:54 PM

yup. lots of chips still and mad skills [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

octaveshift · #8 07-17-2005, 08:54 PM

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My typical play is to push here. You can also call and hope the BB pushes, but raising to 1K will pot commit you for no good reason.

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Interesting. Certainly eliminates position issue.

I need to figure out when, exactly, I lost my testicles.

Perhaps Bluefeet and I need some hormone replacement therapy?

11t · #9 07-17-2005, 08:56 PM

I push here

11t · #10 07-17-2005, 09:02 PM

Go shoot some guns, it makes you feel real manly.

It would take a really good read for me to even think about not pushing here and if I had that good of a read and was confident the other player had a monster I'd probably just fold.

PS I stand by my gun shooting comment