Early on, top two on a monotone board, call this push?

Kumubou · #1 06-17-2005, 12:32 AM

Small buy-in Start tournament, early on (level 2). Lots of bad play (from me too, probably -- but that's why I play these small events and not the 500k guaranteed and such).

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (8 handed) converter

CO (t1863)
Button (t1080)
Heroine (t2065)
BB (t1490)
UTG (t2012)
UTG+1 (t985)
MP1 (t2030)
MP2 (t2715)

Preflop: Heroine is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
4 folds, CO raises to t100, 1 fold, Heroine calls t75, BB calls t50.

Is flat-calling this min-raise a bad move? I did not think much of this minraise; the player in question would do this with nearly any hand he was playing.

Flop: (t300) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
Heroine bets t300, BB calls t300, CO calls t300.

I bet the pot in an effort to get single clubs out of the hand, mainly (also an effort to just win the pot outright). Would a smaller bet have been suitable?

Turn: (t1200) 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 players)
Heroine bets t500, BB raises to t1090, CO folds, Heroine...

I think I screwed this up. Try to protect the pot again and push right away? Or do I fold to BB's all-in bet? The pot was laying over 4.5:1 odds, and the only hands I was behind were 66, AA, JJ, and any two clubs. However, anything less would be a nasty overplay on the BBs part (and it could be a stone-bluff). The most likely thing I was hoping for was an Ax[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]; TP with a strong redraw. Even if I am behind, I have 4 outs against a flush or 66, 2 outs against JJ, and I'm dead meat against AA (but the latter two hands are highly unlikely). So about 10% of the time I am behind, I suck out anyway. Even with all that, do I fold this cheese?

Pot at this point: t2750

-K