Wired 8's in NL Tourney - Page 2

OldLearner · #11 03-24-2004, 01:17 PM

With all the limpers (5 of 7 in front of you) and 8 seeing the flop, I'm not as worried about the drawing hands (the ones I'm ahead of) as I am about the hands that may have flopped a set! Not to mention any other PP that has you beat (or as Greg mentioned, a flopped straight).

You're playing your hand for set value (not TP), as you stated, you missed in which case you were going to fold.

You didn't follow your game plan. This was an easy fold IMHO.

curtains · #12 03-24-2004, 02:49 PM

Wow its good to know that I can bet 1/6th of the pot in the future and make people fold overpairs in giant pots, late in the tournament when the blinds are huge.
Regardless of the results I'd be hard pressed to FOLD this hand, and I can't see how its an easy fold. I still like allin. Blinds just go up way too fast in these events and you do have a hand which could easily get called by a weaker hand. I base a lot of what I say on the fact that this is an $11 rebuy tournament (Im assuming its something of that nature), because really so many of the players have no idea whats going on.
Im willing to gamble that my overpair is good in this spot when I have 27k in chips and there is 20k in the pot. Also its a very important factor that 5 players have already folded. If you were sooner to act after the initial bettor, the play changes a lot.

gunbuster · #13 03-24-2004, 09:49 PM

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One note - You claim you were going to limp if the pot wasnt raised in front of you, but thats definitely the wrong mindset to have in this situation.

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Well, I should have rephrased that. I definitely would have raised if it was folded to me. But as it stands, I had decided to limp after 2 people limped already from EP. If there was a raise after the limpers, the 8's would probably co into the muck.

The intent was to play it like a set, but game plans change as the game situations change. The flop came all babies and 5 players folded to the LAP's bet. He could have been pushing a flush draw or two overcards here, so I figured my hand was good. The pocket 10's had a tough call to make -- which is why I am glad I put him to the decision instead of having to make one myself.