Hand history review for PokerStars $6 Turbo

[UMTerp]

FWIW, I don't mind the all-in on #31 at all - you're close enough to that magic 10BB number. I'd have made the same raise.

BlackAces, why don't you like that one - what the plan if you're reraised? What if you're called and miss the flop? I think you want to see all 5 here, and if you run into AK, so be it - them's the breaks.

[texasrattlers]

Maybe I put in such big raises pre-flop in hands #31 and #34 because I do not feel my post-flop play is strong enough. For hand #34 (the 66), I do not know any other way to play it. If I raise to say 600 and am called, I feel I am dead post-flop unless a 6 hits. And for hand #36, I guess I would not want to be the victim of a stop and go if I get no help on the flop, so the all-in takes away that possibility and I am not too afraid of a caller. I figure pocket pairs or AK at that stage would re-raise all in anyway, and I do not see folding to a re-raise w/ AQ.

This is just my thinking, and I am writing it not to defend myself but to seek alternative viewpoints and playing styles that are better than mine.

[BlackAces]

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FWIW, I don't mind the all-in on #31 at all - you're close enough to that magic 10BB number. I'd have made the same raise.

BlackAces, why don't you like that one - what the plan if you're reraised? What if you're called and miss the flop? I think you want to see all 5 here, and if you run into AK, so be it - them's the breaks.

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Looking at it again, I missed the fact that the big stack was in the SB. So yes, I probably do go all-in there. There's only the SB to worry about anyway, as the BB has next to nothing left, and can't hurt me. Frankly, I'm amazed he folded.

The reason I was thinking of a standard raise was that I would hope that SB would make a stand with a hand worse than mine, reading me for a possible steal on the button.

[BlackAces]

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Maybe I put in such big raises pre-flop in hands #31 and #34 because I do not feel my post-flop play is strong enough.

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That's as good a reason as any.

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For hand #34 (the 66), I do not know any other way to play it. If I raise to say 600 and am called, I feel I am dead post-flop unless a 6 hits.

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I wouldn't have been as willing to go all-in there, as one of your opponents has shown the ability to limp with big hands (the TT in hand 17). But again, if you don't feel your postflop play is good enough, this is an OK play.

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And for hand #36, I guess I would not want to be the victim of a stop and go if I get no help on the flop, so the all-in takes away that possibility and I am not too afraid of a caller. I figure pocket pairs or AK at that stage would re-raise all in anyway, and I do not see folding to a re-raise w/ AQ.

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I assume you meant 31...see my above post as to why I might not go all-in with AQ in this spot, albeit not against a stack as big as the one you faced. Also, I don't think there was anyone at your table capable of a stop & go. They seemed a bit passive to me.

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This is just my thinking, and I am writing it not to defend myself but to seek alternative viewpoints and playing styles that are better than mine.

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That's good. I'm starting to reply to people's posts for that same reason, given that I haven't gotten to play much lately.

(Ah, the life of a newlywed...we can't all have wives like Thunder Keller, although mine has been pretty good about the whole poker thing.)

[texasrattlers]

I posted the remaining 16 hands of this tourney in a new thread. Thanks!