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07-29-2005, 09:36 PM
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Bubble hand - do I have to bust?
NL Texas Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee
Level:7 Blinds(150/300) Seat 1 is the button Total number of players : 4 Seat 8: Hero (UTG) ( $1200 ) Seat 3: SB ( $795 ) Seat 1: Button ( $7430 ) Seat 4: BB ( $575 ) Blinds(150/300) ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to Hero [ Js Ad ] Hero is all-In [1200] Button calls [1200]. SB is all-In [645] BB folds. ** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, 6d, Kd ] ** Dealing Turn ** [ 4c ] ** Dealing River ** [ 7d ] Hero shows [ Js, Ad ] a pair of kings. Button shows [ 8c, 8d ] two pairs, kings and eights. SB shows [ Jc, Jd ] two pairs, kings and jacks. Button wins 810 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, kings and eights. SB wins 2685 chips from the main pot with two pairs, kings and jacks. Hero finished in fourth place. Hero has left the table. Should I limp? Should I fold? Should I minraise? (I don't like this option.) Or is this just the way it goes sometimes? 
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07-29-2005, 09:44 PM
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Re: Bubble hand - do I have to bust?
There were four people left and you were the frontrunner to get second, but if you just sit on your stack and one of your other two opponents doubles up at some point, you're looking at playing yourself into third place instead of second.
In this situation, your stack was only good enough for a little more than two trips around the table. When you pick up good hands like AJ in a dire situation like that, you've got to be leaning heavily towards moving all-in. The factor that would swing my decision this time is that the small stack was in the big blind, which was more than half his stack. You're likely to either steal his blind (which is a great result because he'll be out the door in no time) or get a call from an inferior hand that cannot break you even if he's draws out. It's just bad luck that the big chip leader had a hand with which he wanted to get involved. In my opinion, your all-in move was a winning play.
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