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TT - bubblicious
Full Tilt $30+3 buy-in tourney ~360 entrants
Top 36 get paid, 44 are left when this hand comes up Blinds are 250/500 with a 50 ante Hero (~T6600) is UTG with TT and raises to T1250 UTG+1 pushes all in for ~T9300 Folds around to Hero - call or fold and why? I don't rememeber the exact payout structure but 28-36 got ~$45, 1st got ~$2500 |
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Re: TT - bubblicious
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Full Tilt $30+3 buy-in tourney ~360 entrants Top 36 get paid, 44 are left when this hand comes up Blinds are 250/500 with a 50 ante Hero (~T6600) is UTG with TT and raises to T1250 UTG+1 pushes all in for ~T9300 Folds around to Hero - call or fold and why? I don't rememeber the exact payout structure but 28-36 got ~$45, 1st got ~$2500 [/ QUOTE ] This is rough. You'll only have 10BB left if you fold, but UTG is certainly representing QQ-AA, AKs. I would grit my teeth and fold. |
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Re: TT - bubblicious
You put in almost 1/4 of your stack and the upcoming Blinds will whack another ~1k off the remaining, leaving you with about 8BBs if you fold here...I'm a little torn here but this may be you're best chance to make a run for the real money, otherwise you're looking to push with any decent upcoming hand, hoping to double up inside this round.
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Re: TT - bubblicious
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You put in almost 1/4 of your stack and the upcoming Blinds will whack another ~1k off the remaining, leaving you with about 8BBs if you fold here...I'm a little torn here but this may be you're best chance to make a run for the real money, otherwise you're looking to push with any decent upcoming hand, hoping to double up inside this round. [/ QUOTE ] Bah I forgot he was UTG. I grit my teeth and call. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] |
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Re: TT - bubblicious
The only hand that I am really afraid of here is JJ, because I think he tries to milk QQ-AA here with a smaller raise. JJ,99,AK,AQs seem much more likely with the push, IMHO. I call and go for the real money.
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Re: TT - bubblicious
Save yourself the headache and just push preflop next time. Call.
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Re: TT - bubblicious
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Save yourself the headache and just push preflop next time. Call. [/ QUOTE ] I think open-pushing is bad - the table was playing pretty tight - usually the first one to raise was scooping the pot. I think an UTG open-raise is strong enough. Besides, if there's a reraise and a re-reraise behind me I can muck and feel good about it. |
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Re: TT - bubblicious
2 thoughts:
1) Why didn't you raise more? Most people raise 3xBB at this level. The weak-ish raise may be taken as a sign of weakness and cause someone to mess with you. 2) With this size stack, folding is not an option once you decide to raise. If you were planning on folding to a reraise, you should have limped or folded to begin with. I'm calling here much often than not since folding leaves you crippled. If you had 25xBB or more and villian had a big stack as well, then folding becomes more attractive. The only time I'm folding in this spot is when villian is is a predictable player who will almost always smooth-call w/ a big ace and only push TT-QQ and maybe KK and AA. Those players appear, but not too often. Pay attention - without this read though, you must assume that he very well has AK or AQ, or something like 77-QQ. |
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Re: TT - bubblicious
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2 thoughts: 1) Why didn't you raise more? Most people raise 3xBB at this level. The weak-ish raise may be taken as a sign of weakness and cause someone to mess with you. [/ QUOTE ] The table was playing very tight - people were opening for $1250 and taking the pot uncontested. I suppose I could've bumped it to $1500 but I don't think it makes that much of a difference. Also, the blinds may have just gone up (from 200/400 to 250/500 - I don't remember exactly). You are right though - I would normally come in for at least 3XBB if I am going to come in at all - perhaps a small mistake on my part. |
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Re: TT - bubblicious
You're 9 handed right? So there's 2450 in the pot after your opening raise (remember there are antes) so bb is getting 3.27:1 preflop to call. You need to raise enough so that villain's not getting such good odds to call especially if he's deep stacked. But if you raise much more you're pot committed anyway, so you might as well just push preflop. 2 all ins over an under the gun raise at the bubble is pretty uncommon and I don't think you need to change how you play for fear of that.
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