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Loose chipleader calls? U make this one?
Five player home game. Start w/ 2500 chips. Four remaining.
After recovering from my early shortstack I have built up a nice chip stack of around 7000. One player has about 3500. The other two have 1450 and 1700. For the last 20 minutes or so I have been running over the table winning pot after pot pre=flop or on the flop. Given the general passivity of the table, my raising standards have decreased somewhat. I'm very well known by my friends for playing ultra-aggressively in spurts but then taking people out with significantly better hands than they've given me credit for - or for making good calls on re-steals against me. One other helpful comment: the people I play against now how to release hands pre-flop, but are harder to bully out after they flop to something. For that reason - I like the raise/chop out small pots line here better than the 'call' and play post-flop line. Hand in question: Blinds at 100 200. The two 'shorties' in the blinds - I'm UTG w/ A8o. I raise to 550. Other decent stack folds. Small blind thinks and goes all-in. Big blind feels desperate and also goes all-in with mediocre cards. (I got this read on the BB when they ANNOUNCE 'I have nothing but I guess I need to do this at some point here.') Action to me: Pot now @ 3700. I need to call 1150 more. I'm fairly certain my Ace high beats big blind - though I'm concerned small blind has a better ace or mid-pair...I know he doesn't have AA so I figure I can win the hand by hitting EITHER an lonely ace or a lonely eight. Plus this is a player who will re-steal against me with a low low pair or a suited king type of hand. So...Easy call right? If I lose - I'm down to 4500 and bump one of the shorties up to even with the other stack. If I win I control 85% of chips in play. Plus if my reads are right - I'm priced into calling as a 3:1 dog. Easy call right? Anyone see these calls as chip-spewing? (aware of +EV / folding behind arguements in general --- looking to this example specifically for help.) (Wow - as I type this out it seems like I'm looking for someone to hold my hand and nod their head....) If this hand is too easy - what do you think of loose calls with chip leads? what if losing the hand left with me with only 2000 in chips? |
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