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Old 10-23-2005, 11:37 AM
Cassidy Cassidy is offline
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Default $11 - Push With 88?

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#Game No : 2861340053
***** Hand History for Game 2861340053 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:16478776 Level:5 Blinds(75/150) - Sunday, October 23, 10:13:16 EDT 2005
Table Table 35064 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: ina007 ( $2010 )
Seat 4: Montyw ( $1435 )
Seat 5: Cassidy ( $925 )
Seat 7: esalvador ( $2385 )
Seat 9: USS_Banana ( $445 )
Seat 10: dollocks ( $800 )
Trny:16478776 Level:5
Blinds(75/150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Cassidy [ 8c 8h ]
USS_Banana folds
dollocks calls [150]
ina007 calls [150]
Montyw folds
Cassidy is all-In [850]
esalvador is all-In [2235]
dollocks folds.
ina007 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2d, Kc, 7s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Td ]
Cassidy shows [ 8c, 8h ] a pair of eights.
esalvador shows [ Kd, Ah ] a pair of kings.
esalvador wins 1460 chips from side pot #1 with a pair of kings.
esalvador wins 2150 chips from the main pot with a pair of kings.

With 2 limpers and a bit of FE I decided to push here. I couldn't recall the players making sneaky limps with big hands or making loose calls so I figured a sizable push had a good chance of seeing them fold. I had been reasonably tight and this was my first all-in move so I hoped that might make a fold from the limpers more likely.

My other concern was that the big stack would wake up with a hand he could call with but with the blinds at 150/75 and increasing to 200/100 by the time they hit me again I felt that I had to do something to get chips or risk being blinded out of the game.

Was this a good spot for a push or would limping have been a better line to take?
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