50+5 Rebuy Final Table (Live)

erfinator · #1 02-22-2005, 08:31 AM

About 75 entrants. Top prize is $4,000. Table is 6 handed, and I've been raising about 65% of hands pre-flop and taking them down uncontested. The whole table notes this, but has yet to play back at me. Then this hand.

Blinds are 1k-2k. I have about 40k behind and opponent has about 30K. Folded to me in cutoff and I make it 6k to go with 5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. Villain calls in the BB. Read on him is that he's pretty much as straight-forward as they come. Bets good hands. Check-calls draws. Check-raises monsters.

Flop comes 3 : [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]:4 : [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]:6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Hmmm, I flopped the nuts.

Villain bets out 6k. I hem and haw, pretend I'm agonizing over it, and I call. Turn is a shitty, shitty 4 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. He bets out 10K and I push. Thoughts?

Results to follow.

youngin20 · #2 02-22-2005, 09:02 AM

I like raising the flop. board is toooo drawheavy. if he had a heart, you let him hit it. you have no redraws if you are behind...so you better be ahead. unless he has the flush, or the set, i think you are kvorked. will he pay you off with an overpair? maybe....but its mostlikely to be an overpair with a heart, so he still has outs, and his two other cards. so basically, its way ahead or way behind for you sir. Probably ahead, because i can imagine flat calling with an overpair heads up. But im not sure i like your play.

schwza · #3 02-22-2005, 11:31 AM

does he only bet good hands?

after he bets, there's 19k in the middle and he has 18k behind. i think i'd employ the rarely-correct min-raise. if he calls that (and he probably will, even with A-high since you've been uberaggressive), he'll be left with 12k in a 37k pot. he'll have a tough time getting away from any kind of hand at this point.

one thing i don't like about smooth calling is that there are a lot of cards that can kill your action.

jslag · #4 02-22-2005, 01:10 PM

Given your reputation at the table as being aggressive (especially preflop), I think I would have just pushed on the flop. It looks like you're making a move with a heart flush draw. Your opponent already has 1/3 of his stack in the middle and is betting his hand. I think it would be hard for him to get away from it if you came over the top.

I wouldn't really put him on a flush draw, though it's always possible. The most likely holding he has is a pocket pair and he was testing the waters with that flop bet.

If you really have the wild man image at the table, this is a great spot to move all-in and exploit it.

How it'd turn out?

erfinator · #5 02-22-2005, 01:29 PM

You all have the line I know I should've taken. As it turned out, he called me with 6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]... River was of no help, and I went on to win the tourney. I think part of my problem was that I had to piss like a racehorse adn they wouldn't give us a break.

tiger7210 · #6 02-22-2005, 01:29 PM

I don't like flat calling the flop here unless the opponent is super aggresive. If your opponent is truly an ABC player he is betting into you with something. The board is extremely draw heavy and your made hand is a bit vulnerable. I reraise him here to 18K and am quite happy to increase my stack by 25% with a 5-7 if he doesn't call. If he does I'm still happy that I've pot committed him as a big favorite but I don't want to see the flush card or the board pair up and kill my action.