$55+15 Live. A few preflop decisions.

[graarrg]

so I was playing at the old Seminole in Hollywood, FL and decided to take a break from the shitty limit games (1/2 or straight 2, nothing more in Florida.)

Blinds start at 50/100 and you're given 1500 chips. They increase every 15 minutes. So basically when your cards are freezing and it gets to 200/400, you're pretty short stacked. For the most part, I split 1st/2nd with someone and I never even put in a bet after the flop, so these things are about playing correctly PF.

hand 1:

200/400 blinds. 8 players. Hero has 1000 in chips, MP1, and picks up K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. 2 folds to him, one by the big stack (3000+). Push?

hand 2:

ITM, 400/800 blinds. Hero has 1900 on the button and gets K4s. Definite push, regardless of who's playing, right?

hand 3:

ITM, 400/800 blinds. Hero has 8000 on the button with JJ and Raises to 2400. Small blind goes all in for 2700. Big blind reraises all in, 4900. Hero ??

This guy was a solid, aggressive player, and it looked like this move was geared to knock me out and isolate the all in. I figured if he had overcards I would essentially get a coin-flip chance to win the tournament then and there (which is a real nice proposition), and if he had a lower pocket pair I'd be in good shape. Then again, such a confident all-in raise knowing that I had raised first must have indicated a strong hand. Thoughts?

[spentrent]

How many places pay?

If it's only first, I might go with your gut and call. Otherwise, I'm mucking JJ here.

[graarrg]

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How many places pay?

If it's only first, I might go with your gut and call. Otherwise, I'm mucking JJ here.

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3, so I was already gonna get my money back and a little more. Guess I shoulda mucked.

[Nottom]

Hand 1: seems liek an east push to me

Hand 2: same

Hand 3: If I understand correctly. You lead for 2400, the SB pushes for an additional 300 then the BB comes over the top for 4900 total. So its 2500 to you for a chance to win 10000. Is this supposed to be a tough call?

You almost have the odds to call if he flips up an overpair, which he certainly doesn't always have.

[spentrent]

Another consideration is that the players in these things aren't very tricky... knocking a third guy out with a marginally profitable heads-up hand against a desperate stack seems like a play that these Hard Rock monkeys aren't considering.

[lastchance]

Call/Push all 3. Push the third one initially.

[Nottom]

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Call/Push all 3. Push the third one initially.

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I don't think you have to push the last hand. JJ is a hand I don't mind getting action with at this point as the chip leader.

[kyro]

What a ridiculous structure. Terrible rake. Yuck.

I push the first 2. I like the raise in the third hand, and most likely call the all-in, especially given the blinds.