So I\'m the chip leader...SB playalong
 

5$ MTT, I have just transfered to a new table, so reads are limited. At this point in the tournament, I am the chip leader. I would like to keep it this way.

Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
<font color="blue">Seat 1: amiller03431 ( $18504 )</font>
<font color="blue"> Seat 2: BOUTTHAT111 ( $31840 )</font>
Seat 3: rogerston ( $52848 )
Seat 5: Hero ( $70718 )
Seat 6: sconova ( $36842 )
Seat 7: welder39 ( $41981 )
Seat 10: The_McNasty ( $14718 )
Seat 4: ziggy830 ( $36397 )
Seat 8: spinnochio ( $18354 )
Seat 9: ozziner8 ( $14923 )
Trny:18242073 Level:13
Blinds (750/1500)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
welder39 folds.
spinnochio folds.
ozziner8 folds.
The_McNasty folds.
<font color="red"> amiller03431 raises [3000].</font>
<font color="green"> BOUTTHAT111 calls [3000].</font>
rogerston folds.
<font color="green">ziggy830 calls [3000].</font>
<font color="green"> Hero calls (small blind)[2250].</font>
sconova folds.

<font color="blue"> Pot 13,500</font>
** Dealing Flop ** [ A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ]
Hero?

Re: So I\'m the chip leader...SB playalong
 

edit: never mind, misread the post...hero is in SB

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what is the action to you after the flop?

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I am first to act in the SB

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Since this is a $5 party MTT, any number of hands could have called the min raise preflop, and I doubt any of them were AK. I'd be a little worried about AJ and possibly AQ, but I'd throw a decent sized bet out there and just tread carefully from here on out. Odds are you probably have the best hand, but you gotta protect it from straight draws so I wouldn't check. If someone re-raises you, depending on your read of the player and the size of his stack, I'd either call or push.

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Luckily the board has no real draws on it, so if you are ahead now, the chances are great that you will be ahead on the river, even if everybody stays in the hand.

The preflop action is a little worrisome. I would check this hand and see what develops. The nice thing is that the preflop raiser is the short stack. He is likely to push this flop. If he pushes and everybody else folds, I would certainly call. If everybody checks and the button bets, I might push. If BOUTTHAT111 bets, I don't know what I'm doing. Depends on the size of the bet, I guess.

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Odds are you probably have the best hand, but you gotta protect it from straight draws so I wouldn't check.

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Why do you have to protect it from straight draws? KQ is dead, KT, QT are unlikely and have 4 outs. I don't mind giving them free cards.

I check the flop, probably check-raising. The pot is pretty huge so any bet is going to represent a large percentage of the players stack. Hopefully someone commits themselves with KK, QQ, TT or some kind of jack. I don't particularly like betting, because if you bet and the min-raiser pushes, it lets the bigger stacks fold hands like KJ-JT. Also, if the min-raiser checks, there's a reasonable chance one of the other two players takes a shot at the pot.

Don't worry about being behind here, if you are then you lose all your chips. Worry about maximizing your win against hands that can pay you off like pocket pairs, jacks and weaker aces.

Steve

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Don't worry about being behind here

[/ QUOTE ] I think you do need to worry about being behind. You had a raiser and two callers (even though it was a min-raise, it was still a substantial portion of their chips). Playing AT like you have the nuts is just donking away chips, I think. You need to tread carefully. Check the hand, assess the situation, play some poker.

Re: So I\'m the chip leader...SB playalong
 

easy check and wait for CB from original raiser. i definitely call anything with this hand simply because the odds say he doesn't have the other A (although we know this happens so often). Orginial raiser doesn't have a big enough stack to scare me off and its always possible if he has AK or AQ that i can still hit a few of my outs (i.e. the T's or another pair hits board). You have him covered and you just flopped a set. Check and wait for the action. If everyone checks. I lead the turn for 1/2 pot.

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Actually, I think I would have pushed preflop. A lot of chips are on the table, and nobody seems to love their hand. Even the short stack will have 10BBs if he folds. The other two will definitely need a good hand to call you. Wield that big stack.

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5$ MTT, I have just transfered to a new table, so reads are limited. At this point in the tournament, I am the chip leader. I would like to keep it this way.

Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
<font color="blue">Seat 1: amiller03431 ( $18504 )</font>
<font color="blue"> Seat 2: BOUTTHAT111 ( $31840 )</font>
Seat 3: rogerston ( $52848 )
Seat 5: Hero ( $70718 )
Seat 6: sconova ( $36842 )
Seat 7: welder39 ( $41981 )
Seat 10: The_McNasty ( $14718 )
Seat 4: ziggy830 ( $36397 )
Seat 8: spinnochio ( $18354 )
Seat 9: ozziner8 ( $14923 )
Trny:18242073 Level:13
Blinds (750/1500)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
welder39 folds.
spinnochio folds.
ozziner8 folds.
The_McNasty folds.
<font color="red"> amiller03431 raises [3000].</font>
<font color="green"> BOUTTHAT111 calls [3000].</font>
rogerston folds.
<font color="green">ziggy830 calls [3000].</font>
<font color="green"> Hero calls (small blind)[2250].</font>
sconova folds.

<font color="blue"> Pot 13,500</font>
** Dealing Flop ** [ A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ]
Hero?

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I checked because I wanted the short stack to go all in. This way, I could protect my hand with his bet and also close the action. Unfortunately the small stack didn't cooperate.

Hero checks.
<font color="red"> amiller03431 bets [1500].</font>
<font color="green"> BOUTTHAT111 is all-In [28840]</font>
ziggy830 folds.
Hero ? <font color="blue"> Pot 43840 </font>