Two Plus Two Older Archives  

Go Back   Two Plus Two Older Archives > Tournament Poker > One-table Tournaments

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 10-19-2005, 08:32 PM
tigerite tigerite is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 360
Default $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.


Chip Counts:
Button: 135 Chips
SB: 1565 Chips
BB: 3780 Chips
<font color="red">Hero: 2520 Chips</font>

Hero is UTG with T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Blinds are 150/300

Hero ?
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 10-19-2005, 08:48 PM
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
Default Re: $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.

I'd bet out, without committing yourself. You've got a nice stack, and a shortstack very near broke. Others will probably say push and play for first, but I'd say you're already in good contention for first and there's no need to gamble right this moment.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 10-19-2005, 08:57 PM
Scuba Chuck Scuba Chuck is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 1-table tournaments
Posts: 1,537
Default Re: $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.

Depending on the table dynamics, my two most common decisions are to limp or fold.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 10-19-2005, 09:03 PM
bigt439 bigt439 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 134
Default Re: $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.

What's the biggie doing with 88 and AJo? You're almost never getting called by anyone else. I think you can go ahead and push, but folding is close. I hate limping here personally, although I'm not completley sure why. Just seems meh. Raising less than all-in is kinda dumb with your stack.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 10-20-2005, 05:57 AM
tigerite tigerite is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 360
Default Re: $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.

[ QUOTE ]
What's the biggie doing with 88 and AJo? You're almost never getting called by anyone else. I think you can go ahead and push, but folding is close. I hate limping here personally, although I'm not completley sure why. Just seems meh. Raising less than all-in is kinda dumb with your stack.

[/ QUOTE ]

Big stack is passive but loose, typical donk really. He hasn't been using it intelligently and I don't think he would come over the top of a limp or raise without a very strong holding.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 10-20-2005, 05:59 AM
tigerite tigerite is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 360
Default Re: $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.

[ QUOTE ]
Depending on the table dynamics, my two most common decisions are to limp or fold.


[/ QUOTE ]

Yes, this was also my thinking because the big stack wasn't playing as he "should" (some of the folds after this hand he made were criminal to me, like when I was BB and he was SB, he didn't even complete, bar once).

However - I didn't want to give shorty a free ride against big stack's "any two" at the same time. Against an intelligent player as the big stack I would push or fold here, but because of my read I limped. Shorty and SB folded, BB checked. Flop was ten high, he checked, I bet, he folded.

Not really very interesting I guess.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 10-20-2005, 06:11 AM
bennies bennies is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Dinamarca
Posts: 75
Default Re: $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.

Well, it's interesting to me: a) because I usually "forget" that limping is an option when blinds are high, b) because I always fold this like a good patient school boy. Nh.
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 10-20-2005, 06:12 AM
Melchiades Melchiades is offline
Junior Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 18
Default Re: $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.

I limp here. To be able to check down and knock out shorty should he decide to play this hand.
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 10-20-2005, 06:16 AM
tigerite tigerite is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 360
Default Re: $33 bubble, ATo UTG, short stack on button.

[ QUOTE ]
I limp here. To be able to check down and knock out shorty should he decide to play this hand.

[/ QUOTE ]

This actually did happen a few hands from this one, sadly shorty had KK then and won the hand, but that was good for me, as the two stacks to my right kept being about equal, so I could push over both of them and neither wanted to call, or from SB into BB. It was a very sweet bubble for me as the big stack was being so ridiculously passive, and it wasn't long before I was the big stack, and went on to win the tourney.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 08:35 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.