Dealing with LAGs in a short-handed tournament situation

[mrh86]

This guy CdnEarl has basically sucked out a dozen times, which made him the chip leader, and he will not fold for anything. I've seen him show down king high and worse for as much as 30% of his stack. I genuinely thought that he'd go away if I stayed in the hand, since he had just limped UTG and I made it 2400 to go. Does anybody make this call here, or should I have pushed PF since the LAG is to my left?


PokerStars Game #2574644640: Tournament #12554632, Hold'em No Limit -
Level IX (300/600) - 2005/09/14 - 16:07:50 (ET)
Table '12554632 3' Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Kstnbike (1060 in chips)
Seat 2: mrh86 (5975 in chips)
Seat 3: CdnEarl (16160 in chips)
Seat 6: DFDPhantom (7290 in chips)
Seat 7: lleaw (10015 in chips)
Kstnbike: posts the ante 50
mrh86: posts the ante 50
CdnEarl: posts the ante 50
DFDPhantom: posts the ante 50
lleaw: posts the ante 50
Kstnbike: posts small blind 300
mrh86: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mrh86 [5s 5d]
CdnEarl: calls 600
DFDPhantom: folds
lleaw: folds
Kstnbike: raises 410 to 1010 and is all-in
mrh86: raises 1990 to 3000
CdnEarl: calls 2400
*** FLOP *** [Qh 8c Jh]
mrh86: checks
CdnEarl: bets 2925
mrh86: folds
*** TURN *** [Qh 8c Jh] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [Qh 8c Jh 9c] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***

In white below:

<font color="white">CdnEarl: shows [Kh 5h] (a pair of Eights)
CdnEarl collected 3980 from side pot
Kstnbike: shows [4h 4d] (two pair, Eights and Fours)
Kstnbike collected 3280 from main pot
</font>

[Benal]

If you're looking to isolate the short stack all in, push.

5 handed with those stacks.. Is this even an MTT?

[Exitonly]

less than 10BB's why are you raising less than allin?

especially with a lag guy like that to act after you.. if you play this hand, push... (and i like playing this hand)

[mrh86]

It's one of the 'Stars 10+1, 27 person tournaments. I play those a lot during the week because I don't have the time for large MTTs.

[TomHimself]

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horrible

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[adanthar]

Wait, you're the guy that thought 70% wasn't enough of an edge?

...yeah

[ClaytonN]

no offense, but you have a lot to learn. but i admire your sense of at least trying to learn by taking our beratings without freaking out.

[ismisus]

Push All In, he would likely call you anyways since he "commited" himself by limping. This way he can't outplay you.

If this was me, I would fold 55 in this situation. I would look for spots where the LAG isn't commited to steal/isolate. Even with these huge blinds I look to limp with the LAG with trash such as QT, J9. Often times you get to double up off monsters like 2nd pair.

It also semi-likely that the all in guy has you in a big way with higher pocket. If he doesn't, you're still only a slight favorite

[MrBrightside]

I play these a lot lately too, its a way to practice MTT-ish strategy without the time commmittement. They fill up pretty quick, and I've done well.

also, on this hand, as others have said, I push to isolate the short stack all in.

[BigHef]

I don't post much, but the way you played that makes me feel ill...

I fold, but if you're hell bent on playing then push, you've only got a pair of 5s so you want to be heads up with the short stack