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How would you play this hand preflop?
NL Hold'em tourney. 125 players left, 63 places pay. Blinds at 100/200 with a 25 ante, nine-handed. Average stack approx. 7500.
Three players will be active in the hand: MP with 3500 in chips, SB with 6500, and I have 6500 in the BB. I pick up AQs. MP opens with a raise to 800. Folded to SB who calls. It's 600 for me to call, and the pot is 2025. I have no good read on either player. How would you play? |
#2
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
Call, take a flop and see what the action brings there.
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#3
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
I would just call. Without a read, I would think MP has something at least a little decent and he invested almost 1/4 his stack so coming over the top may not have too much fold equity. You're getting great odds so I'd just call and see the flop.
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#4
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
Fold. Marginal hand, out of position. These are the hands you go bust on.
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#5
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
Call. Getting more than 3-1 with 2 opponents and a suited AQ. This is a hand you may double up on. (or go broke)
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
Despite the pot odds, I didn't want to call with AQ (suited or not) out of position for a substantial raise (a tenth of my stack). Unless I hit really hard (like trip Q, two-pair, or flush/flush draw), I won't know where I'm at on the flop.
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#7
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
Agreed.. if you don't hit your hand hard, you are in extremely difficult waters.
Calling this hand here is a classic chip bleeding situation that alot of people can't see. |
#8
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
any reads? I generally shove here, there's a bunch of dead money in the center and all.
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#9
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
I didn't have any good reads, other than the general feeling that people were able to lay down decent hands in the face of a big reraise. The two other guys were definately not maniacs.
I also felt that my image was fairly tight. In addition to that, I had opened the pot preflop for a standard raise (800) a couple of times the last round or so with marginal hands (I think it was 87s and 66), getting reraised big and had to fold w/o seeing the flop. Partly because of that I was down from around 9500 to 6500, but I'm not sure if the other guys noticed that or not. |
#10
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Re: How would you play this hand preflop?
I would rather call AND/OR push with 8-9 suited than push with A-Q here.
With a push, either hand you are only going to get called by hands that can beat A-Q. With 8-9 atleast you have live cards capable of making something. With a call if you don't hit hard you can get rid of it easily, and if you miss at all, you can still make a play at the pot. A-Q is probably the most overrated hand in the game. |
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