playing against a short stack limper
 

Me = $5800 Her = $800 10/20 NL commerce casino

I’m holding A,7 off on the button against 1 short stack limper so I decide to raise the pot thinking I have the best hand.

Pot= $150

The Flop comes..
8-4-2 RB she overbets makin it $225 to go

perhaps I'm a bit more careful than most when it comes to the play of garbage hands hands in position. considering I came from the doldrums of the "restricted buy-in" side of the house where it’s explicitly difficult to get a short stack to fold but I decided to re-raise here.

She’s been limping in with small suited cards, A,x suited and small pocket pair. Open bets her draws and check raises sets so I thought I had a pretty good read on her.

I re-raised to $400 which about puts her all-in and she calls with A,3 suited with no flush re-draw

Turn
8-4-2-5
River
8-4-2-5-6

After playing the 200 and 400 restricted buy-in games at the commerce and consistently winning for over a year I moved up to the 10/20 NL min $600 about 4 months ago. I’m playin well but I’m lookin for a critical eye to offer up scenarios or suggestions about playing against short stacked players. Although she turned her str8 and I rivered a bigger one I thought my re-raise on the flop should have won the pot right there figuring she would lay down a pinned wheel..

Comments?

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

err how does the re-raise to 400 put her all-in, she has 800 stack, pre-flop she put in about 60-80....

also, i think the flop raise is bad especially after the overbet, shes not folding

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

she limped for $20
called my raise of $50 leaving her with $730
pot is about $150
she bets $225 leaving her with $505
my bet of $400 pot commits her if she calls since it would leave her with $105 therefore folding or pushing was her next move I thought.. The over bet looked more like a steal and since no body felt the urge to look her up (as she's done this before) I felt that was the best way to. I thought I was good PF and thought I was still good on the flop which is why I re-raised.. the overbet should have warned me though that she probably wasn't going anywhere..

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

In that game, I would make this $100 - $120 to go PF if I felt like raising in your spot.

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

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she limped for $20
called my raise of $50 leaving her with $730
pot is about $150
she bets $225 leaving her with $505
my bet of $400 pot commits her if she calls since it would leave her with $105 therefore folding or pushing was her next move I thought.. The over bet looked more like a steal and since no body felt the urge to look her up (as she's done this before) I felt that was the best way to. I thought I was good PF and thought I was still good on the flop which is why I re-raised.. the overbet should have warned me though that she probably wasn't going anywhere..

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your wording in your post was flawed. you said you raised TO 400, when it should be you raised 400 MORE.

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

maybe a bigger raise was a better idea.. but, did I not want the call?

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

correct...my apologies. I hope it is clearer now [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

Yeah - I assume you're trying to isolate her and in that game, the blinds will often call an additional $50, while they will not often call an additional $100. And if she folds, fine, thats a free $50 with a crappy ace - we'll take that.

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

normaljoe: i have never seen the term "pinned wheel" before. I like it.

Re: playing against a short stack limper
 

fold pf