Re: TPGK facing SS push, several players still to act behind
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If you don't move w/this flop, what exactly were you hoping for?
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K,K,Q would be nice!
But seriously, there was no doubt that I was playing the hand, the question was call or push. I pushed and the small blind called all-in and showed a set of 9's. Good play, bad result.
It just got me to thinking about different ways to play similar situations.
In this case, had I just called with those two diamonds out there I could be giving somebody just about the correct odds to draw to the flush.
What if it was almost the same flop but say a rainbow board? Now does just flat calling have decent chance of getting heads-up with the short-stack at a minimum risk to my stack?
As schwza points out, everybody left in the hand has under 1,200 - so if I call and get reraised I'm going to have to make the call based on pot odds anyway. Might as well push.
But what if everybody left to act had big stacks? Do I raise enough to make draw to the flush incorrect based on odds - but allow myself the ability to get away from the hand if somebody acting behind me, seeing a push and a re-raise, shows great strength and comes right over the top?
Or assuming the rainbow board example from above, can I call here with big stacks yet to act and actually get away from somebody coming over the top?
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