Easy push? (Stars 45k)

Nato76 · #1 11-07-2005, 01:52 PM

First post here. I'm trying to improve my MTT game. This is with about 100 players left. I win this and I am chip leader. Call? Easy push?

PokerStars Game #2994739415: Tournament #14414196, Hold'em No Limit - Level XV (2000/4000) - 2005/11/07 - 02:12:46 (ET)
Table '14414196 137' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: stayart (232377 in chips)
Seat 2: Walt75904 (45110 in chips)
Seat 3: 9_balla (63267 in chips)
Seat 4: scgolfer (42530 in chips)
Seat 5: MasterVlad (53124 in chips)
Seat 7: MrDelnoche (108395 in chips)
Seat 8: GYPSY 98 (193465 in chips)
Seat 9: Nato1976 (155958 in chips)
stayart: posts the ante 200
Walt75904: posts the ante 200
9_balla: posts the ante 200
scgolfer: posts the ante 200
MasterVlad: posts the ante 200
MrDelnoche: posts the ante 200
GYPSY 98: posts the ante 200
Nato1976: posts the ante 200
Nato1976: posts small blind 2000
stayart: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Nato1976 [5s 5h]
Walt75904: folds
9_balla: folds
scgolfer: folds
MasterVlad: folds
MrDelnoche: folds
GYPSY 98: folds
Nato1976: raises 8000 to 12000
Tamilen is connected
stayart: calls 8000
*** FLOP *** [3h 7d 5d]
Nato1976: bets 16000
stayart: raises 16000 to 32000

Sam T. · #2 11-07-2005, 01:55 PM

Clearly the villain called your raise with 64. Fold.

Seriously, if he had 77 or sucked out, that's either bad luck or a bad beat. Of course you're going to felt here.

#3 11-07-2005, 01:57 PM

yep,easy push.

Nato76 · #4 11-07-2005, 02:04 PM

Ok. Better question would be how would you have played this hand? Bet more preflop? Bet more on the flop? I will post the results after a few more comments/suggestions.

charlieD · #5 11-07-2005, 02:10 PM

you played it well so far. after getting raised on the flop move in, no free cards here. if you get beat so be it.

#6 11-07-2005, 02:14 PM

think the way you played it was pretty close to perfect IMO. Don't be too results oriented thinking. He thought you were stealing blinds and called with a 4 6 or 2 diamonds and rivered the flush. Pushing was the right move.

Sam T. · #7 11-07-2005, 02:16 PM

In the SB I always raise more than 3BB pre-flop, because I'll be OOP for the rest of the hand, and that sucks. In this case, you also don't much want a flop simply because it will probably include overcards.

On the flop: Yahtzee! I agree betting out is right. It's usually right. The min-raise I see as a weak bet. He's drawing, or thinks you missed the flop, or both. With a diamond and str8 draws on the table, it's time to shut this down. After his min-reraise there's roughly 70k in the middle. With 130k left behind, you can't make any raise except a push. (Any real reraise would have to be to t70k, but at but then you're left with only t60k and t140k pot, which is no good.)

Push.

Nato76 · #8 11-07-2005, 02:27 PM

He thinks for a while and ends up calling. I think because of my weak bet after the flop he took it as a steal. I'm thinking a bigger bet might have taken it without a reraise.

*** FLOP *** [3h 7d 5d]
Nato1976: bets 16000
stayart: raises 16000 to 32000
Nato1976: raises 111758 to 143758 and is all-in
stayart: calls 111758
stayart said, "i just dont believe you"
stayart said, "fack"
*** TURN *** [3h 7d 5d] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [3h 7d 5d 8d] [2d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Nato1976: shows [5s 5h] (three of a kind, Fives)
stayart: shows [7h Ad] (a flush, Ace high)
stayart said, "ugg"
stayart collected 313116 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 313116 | Rake 0
Board [3h 7d 5d 8d 2d]
Seat 1: stayart (big blind) showed [7h Ad] and won (313116) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: Walt75904 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: 9_balla folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: scgolfer folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: MasterVlad folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: MrDelnoche folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: GYPSY 98 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Nato1976 (small blind) showed [5s 5h] and lost with three of a kind, Fives

People_Mover · #9 11-07-2005, 02:39 PM

easy push. nh

#10 11-07-2005, 03:01 PM

You got your money in as a 93% favorite, you made a good play, over 9 times out of 10 you're going to double up there. What if you went all in preflop with AA and he called with 72 offsuit? Well he has a better chance of winning that hand than he does this hand. Good play, unlucky result.