PLO8 200 Short Handed Hand #1

[Jorge10]

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Depends on everything you haven't included, like the last 20 hands, etc.

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About 5 hands prior I had crushed him with a pair of kings for high and A/3 for low on a board where a straight and flush was possible. Thats why I assumed he was very very loose. But I only got 70 off him. He rebought and this hand came up.

I dont know why, but I just shoved. There is no real explanation for it.

Hero raises [$264].
Villan is all-In [$92.65]
** Dealing Turn ** [ T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]
Hero shows [ 4 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ] a pair of aces.
Villan doesn't show [ A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 3 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ] a pair of tens.
Hero wins $127.35 from side pot #1 with a pair of aces.
Hero wins $405.30 from the main pot with a pair of aces.
There was no qualifying low hand.

I wasnt really sure if my decision was correct or why I even made it, so I decided to post the hand.

I wanted to see if anyone else makes the same decision or if laying it down was a better way to play it.

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I dont know why, but I just shoved. There is no real explanation for it.

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It sounds like you intuitively planted him on complete garbage a high enough percentage of the time to make a call here automatic in a range-of-hands sense. That's exactly the way things go shorthanded, where you have to play more by feel than by rote math. For example, when playing you probably gain a sense for the importance of how long the guy takes to fire out a bet/raise. Maybe when they come "too fast" you know he's got junk a great % of the time. The important thing is to not get down on yourself those times when a guy like this flips up top set, or your timing-based read was just an unlucky disconnect at the wrong time or whatever; and also to keep plays like this separate from hopeless calls that one occasionally makes out of stupid desperation when on tilt.

Good read and NH.

[gergery]

And if he does show top set, just jump into the $2k game and win it back. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
-g