this is into a 900FPP qualifier for the WCOOP #1 event. I am about 35 about of 170, Final table gets a seat . My stack is a about 2 times the average. I have been at this table for not that many hands.
On this hand I thought that I was way ahead on the flop, so I reraised the bet out from the BB. I figured he had overcards to the board, maybe an overpair.
I know that I really screwed up 4th street by not reraising but I was a little worried that somehow I was somehow behind so I just called.
On the river 8 I could not imagine what kind of hand this guy could have called the preflop raise with and then called my big reraise on the flop, and yet just bet the small amount he bet on the Turn. I was worried that I was behind to a set, but I thought that there was more of a chance that his all-in bet as just a desperation move to buy the pot and scare me away. Was my reasoning flawed here? After all even if he lost this pot he would have still had a 2x average size stack, so I thought that the possibility that I was way ahead existed so I called. If I won this hand I would have been in top 5 in chips.
I have made some really bad laydowns in the past because my stack would still be decent if I folded. I am trying to work on reasoning through the hands better and I have been much more succesfull at calling and having it be the right move, because people were making moves. In this tournament I had made 2 calls where people bet on down to have nothing.
Thoughts on a river call or laydown?
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (8 handed)
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<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>
MP1 (t20)
<font color="#C00000">Hero (t7475)</font>
CO (t17479)
Button (t6080)
SB (t3066)
<font color="#C00000">BB (t16096)</font>
UTG (t6700)
UTG+1 (t105)
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
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3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t450</font>, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, Button calls t450, <font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, BB calls t300.
Flop: (t1425) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets t450</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1350</font>, Button folds, BB calls t900.
Turn: (t4125) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets t450</font>, Hero calls t450.
River: (t5025) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets t13846 (All-In)</font>, Hero ?