did i make the right laydown?

benneh · #1 06-29-2005, 02:49 PM

this hand i'm about 4th or 5th in chips in the current $2 hold em tourney on stars. SB had just taken a huge hit in previous hand and i decided i'd call him when he moved in vs my 5s, but i hadn't anticipated the others of doing the same.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) converter

MP3 (t2970)
CO (t1180)
Button (t960)
SB (t460)
Hero (t5450)
UTG (t1470)
UTG+1 (t1380)
MP1 (t1700)
MP2 (t2260)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t20, MP1 calls t20, MP2 calls t20, 2 folds, Button calls t20, SB raises to t460, Hero calls t440, UTG+1 raises to t1380, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, Button calls t940 (All-In), Hero folds.

i didnt want to risk that much on my stack this early with such a marginal hand, but was i in a must call situation given the odds? do i HAVE to risk my large lead just cause i'm getting correct odds?

for results oriented whores, i would have hit my set (and still lost)

HeroInBlack · #2 06-29-2005, 03:35 PM

I don't know if I totally agree that you had the odds. You're most likely 55% vs. two overs, but it's very possible that you're 19% against an overpair, and it's almost never gonna happen that you're the 81% end. It is for this reason that I pretty much don't call all-ins with low pairs unless the pot is paying me like 3-1.

The large number of players behind you could also steer you toward folding, but you wouldn't think any of them would have something they would call an all-in with when they didn't raise the first time they had the chance.

Anyway, I fold to the original raise myself and let the idiot enjoy risking 460 to win 80.

Once you call the 460 and it gets reraised, I think you have to fold because it's just way too likely one of them has an overpair.

TxDozerMan · #3 06-29-2005, 03:47 PM

You should have folded this to the initial raise.

Drizztdj · #4 06-29-2005, 03:57 PM

I agree with the fold Benneh, IM me tonight and I'll go through the reasoning with ya.

I should be on around 8-9CST.