Was this a good play?

gcDanno · #1 06-11-2004, 05:17 PM

3rd hour of Stars $10 rebuy. I think my image is pretty tight. The bad guy appears to be a good player. I wasn't sure what to make of his opening raise. I was afraid of a monster, and that's why I only called. If I hit a set I knew I could take him for a ride.

My re-raise was hoping to make him think that maybe I had a Ten, and he would let it go. Comments please.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (9 handed) converter

saw flop|saw showdown

UTG (t20522)
UTG+1 (t3200)
MP1 (t4697)
MP2 (t13115)
MP3 (t8438)
CO (t5775)
Button (t36685)
Hero (t11717)
BB (t18356)

Preflop: Hero is SB with J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
UTG raises to t800, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO calls t800, Button folds, Hero calls t600, BB calls t400.

Flop: (t2800) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (4 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG bets t400, CO folds, Hero raises to t2000, BB folds, UTG raises to t19697, Hero folds.

Final Pot: t24497
Main Pot: t6800 (t6800), won by UTG.
Pot 2: t17697 (t17697), returned to UTG.

Results in white below: 
No showdown. UTG wins t24497.

cferejohn · #2 06-11-2004, 07:07 PM

I think that was fine. If you think he is a good player, than smooth calling an UTG raise with JJ is fine. If you re-raise and get re-re-raised, you're going to have a tough decision to make.

Good raise, and, I suspect, good laydown. Not a fun one to make, but it's hard for me to imagine what he might have that you beat here. *If* this player would raise 99 or AQ UTG, then you're ahead of those, but all other likely hands have you in quite a bit of trouble. Good raise to find out where you were and to push off draws, and a tough, but good (I think) laydown.