Weak hand from Party 40k

stoli · #1 12-02-2005, 10:54 AM

We were near the bubble 300 left of 2540ish. Villian has been fairly tight but has noticeably decided to start playing aggressive to try and steal some chips from players trying to make the money. I have folded for 3-4 rounds in a row here, and the table has only seen me show down strong holdings so he must view me as pretty tight.

I feel like I probably should've put the pressure on him pre-flop and re-raised all-in right? I kinda felt like re-raising him but not putting him all-in would give me some info. I felt like if he had a premium hand too he'd re-raise all-in. While if he was stealing and got caught this bet would let him know I didn't care if he was calling or not and might induce a fold, winning me his original raise.

Then on the flop I'm getting close to 6-1.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (9 handed) converter

BB (t4678)
UTG (t4540)
UTG+1 (t5436)
MP1 (t5450)
MP2 (t15444)
MP3 (t45831)
CO (t8304)
Hero (t8890)
SB (t20880)

Preflop: Hero is Button with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
2 folds, MP1 raises to t2000, 3 folds, Hero raises to t3800, 2 folds, MP1 calls t1800.

Flop: (t8500) A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
MP1 bets all-in [t1650], Hero Calls.

Turn: (t8500) 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)

River: (t8500) A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)

Final Pot: t8500

Exitonly · #2 12-02-2005, 10:59 AM

raising him less than all in MIGHT give you more info.. but.... what the hell for? you have no need for more information, after you make the raise that's less than all in you've gotta go the rest of the way with it.

schwza · #3 12-02-2005, 12:49 PM

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I kinda felt like re-raising him but not putting him all-in would give me some info

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this is not the reason to reraise small. the reason is to trap him if he has a hand like AT or 88 and you think he might find a fold if you push.

but you are pretty much indifferent whether he folds AT (he has approx the pot odds he needs to call). i think that he's very likely to call a push with a small/medium pair because of the chance you have AK/AQ and he might fold it if high cards flop, which would obviously be very bad for you. so push.

psyduck · #4 12-02-2005, 01:17 PM

this is ridiculous. just push preflop or re-raise to the exact size of his stack.

#5 12-02-2005, 01:27 PM

About how many entrants are there in the 40k?

schwza · #6 12-02-2005, 01:29 PM

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2540ish

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#7 12-02-2005, 01:32 PM

lol thanks...missed that. Was up all night and now am trying to read some posts, doesnt really mix well.