$22 HU Did I wildly overplay Top pair?
 

We had not played many hands HU. Villian had been playing fairly tight 3-4 handed.

***** Hand History for Game 2934554227 *****
150/300 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 16894177) - Wed Oct 26 14:44:15 EDT 2005
Table Table 67296 (Real Money) -- Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 7: skairzo (3695)
Seat 8: prits308096 (4305)
skairzo posts small blind (75)
prits308096 posts big blind (150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to skairzo [ 9d, 8h ]
skairzo raises (375) to 450
prits308096 raises (600) to 750
skairzo calls (300)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4s, 9h, 2s ]
prits308096 checks.
skairzo bets (1000)
prits308096 raises (2900) to 2900
skairzo raises (1945) to 2945

Re: $22 HU Did I wildly overplay Top pair?
 

98o is nearly even money against a random hand. I'm not in love with the PF raise, but don't mind it too much. It really depends on how often you've been raising and whether you've been able to get the villian to fold PF.

How often has the villian reraised you PF? You've got pot odds to call, but I'm not in love with playing 20% of my stack with 98o.

If villian's PF reraise is rare, I'd be tempted to either check the flop or bet closer to half the pot, say 750 instead of 1000, so that you have a better chance of seeing a showdown cheaply.

The Shadow

Re: $22 HU Did I wildly overplay Top pair?
 

i just push this on the flop.

Re: $22 HU Did I wildly overplay Top pair?
 

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If villian's PF reraise is rare, I'd be tempted to either check the flop or bet closer to half the pot, say 750 instead of 1000, so that you have a better chance of seeing a showdown cheaply.



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if villain has the overpair he's representing, you're not getting to SD without all the money in the middle. i'd bet an amount that's going to make him push with AJ or whatever overs he has. i'd pick 900, but it's splitting hairs.

i think that we should definitely not fold to the push here.

Re: $22 HU Did I wildly overplay Top pair?
 

If he's been playing fairly tight, then you're basically praying that he just has overcards. There really doesn't seem to be any other way you can play it though. You can't check the flop because you don't want to be giving him cards, but you really can't fold after you bet because the odds are so good. It's just one of those "stacks are so shallow and I am praying for a hand" type of situations.