99 on button on bubble

[Chief911]

You certienly cannot fold. Most of the time I'll call and play a flop here. But there are many (better) players that I've seen that would push this.

Nick

[People_Mover]

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You certienly cannot fold. Most of the time I'll call and play a flop here. But there are many (better) players that I've seen that would push this.

Nick

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I agree with a call and see what the flop brings. If checked to you, throw a bet out there and fold to a raise if there are overcards. That's just me...

[Tailgunner]

I like the call here too. I'd probably push, but going into the bubble isn't where I'd choose to risk running into a hand. MP knows you're aggressive and is playing into the tight blinds with a short stack also, so even though he's loose you've got to give him some credit. Folding is definitely too weak against a loose player behind you and tight ahead, a call will at worst let you fold to a re-raise and give you a read on how to play the flop without committing yourself.

[beetyjoose]

Thanks for the input thus far. I think I should of just called preflop, but unfortunetely that's not what I did.

I ended up re-raising about half my stack $4500 in an attempt to isolate. Looking back this was probably a weak play, as I was planning to play for all my chips if need be.

What happened next caught me off guard:

Button: raises to $4500
SB: Folds (not surprising)
BB: Smoothe Calls (Danger!)
MP: Smoothe Calls

O.K... So now my isolation plan went out the window, and with the two smoothe calls, I'm beginning to think I'm way behind.

Flop comes 725 rainbow

BB: Open pushes (not surprising)
MP: Thinks, and Folds
Button:???

[Tailgunner]

MP's think-fold looks like some kind of overcards or weak ace, which makes BB even more likely to be representing an overpair... since he's not likely to smooth call two PF raises and fire at the flop with 88, I'd fold. There's a chance he could be pushing you around after having dominated you, but it's not worth it when you'd still have enough of a stack to ride into the money.

[beetyjoose]

I thought about this for a while and I ended up folding. I still had a decent amount of chips to double through.

This hand bugged me a lot during and after the hand. I'm not sure if it was correct or not, but my reasoning was for the following:

I had come to the conclusion that the BB had a big hand preflop. I didn't want to look at the flop, see all small cards and say to myself "he has AK".

I was trying to be consistent with my read. Even if he had a small PP he may have hit a set. Pretty much the only hand he has that I can beat is 88.

I'm thinking that I may have misplayed the preflop action, but perhaps I salvaged the hand. Oh perhaps I should of called because I set out to play the hand a certain way and should of stuck to my guns.

[schwza]

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MP ($6500) : raises to $1500 (one of the looser players at the table)

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i assume this guy is agg, too? you have fold the flop every time there's an overcard. i think the flop will be tough to play, but there's a very good chance we can win this pot now with a push. and villain may call with worse.