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how do you play these hands? (blind special)
So I hate these situations. Pretty decent stacks, good hand in the small blind, against a similar stack. How do you play these that a)give you the best chance to win and b)let you get out the cheapest? I hate the results here, obviously, but I'm not sure if I played it wrong or not. (I could give up the flop, I suppose, but it's just as likely to have hit me, so I bet.)
(from a PS $22 180-man SnG. As an aside, has anyone else had troubles with the hand converter recently? I had to find a third mirror of the bisonbison converter before I found a page I could access.) PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com UTG+1 (t1235) MP1 (t2305) MP2 (t2115) MP3 (t2000) CO (t3540) Button (t3275) Hero (t3945) BB (t3595) UTG (t1240) Preflop: Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">7 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t200</font>, BB calls t150. Flop: (t400) Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t250</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to t850</font>, Hero folds. Final Pot: t1500 |
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Re: how do you play these hands? (blind special)
if you think he bluffs alot here, and/or won't call a push with a Q, then push. otherwise the fold is fine.
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Re: how do you play these hands? (blind special)
All looking fine and dandy to me
An aggressive player would often call your raise and raise your CB on a non-scary board because it's the blind battle. This however is not a non-scary board so bar a read I'm folding here too and look for other places to bring my healthy stack in play |
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Re: how do you play these hands? (blind special)
I would open push, honestly. You don't get action with aces in blind battles unless you're beat and you might get called with a worse ace.
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Re: how do you play these hands? (blind special)
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I would open push, honestly. [/ QUOTE ] i certainly hope you're not serious about pushing preflop. |
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Re: how do you play these hands? (blind special)
blinds arent anywhere near enough to be open pushing here.
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Re: how do you play these hands? (blind special)
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blinds arent anywhere near enough to be open pushing here. [/ QUOTE ] yes. if openpushing truly is the most +EV for you to play here, then you have some serious problems with your postflop play. |
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Re: how do you play these hands? (blind special)
I just complete a lot here. The stacks are so deep that you get played back at a great deal in these low buyin battle of blinds and you're fighting over 75 chips. If you keep the pot small you can give yourself a better chance to make a real hand and bust a guy that overplays tp.
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Re: how do you play these hands? (blind special)
Would it be extremely weak-tight to just check-fold the flop? He is likely to have hit the flop unless he holds a lower pocket pair. If he has a medium holding he might be afraid of the check-raise and just check behind. You have some outs for the nut straight and the backdoor flush, as well as an A.
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