Three hands near the bubble in last night's Party $40K guaranteed

[jcm4ccc]

Three hands from last night’s Party $40K guaranteed. All three hands were near the bubble (220 positions paid). Also, I was taking care of my 8-month old son, who woke up in the middle of the night, so no reads.

Hand #1: About 300 people left

I thought I had enough chips to make a serious dent in the 2 limpers’ stack, to the point that they might not make the bubble. So I decided to try to steal the pot. My stack is clearly below average.

Gawlfa34 (5731)
Ratman737 (2768)
TimWakefield (8178)
MarkV12 (4390)
ping2331 (1746)
NateHate (2310)
pat3767 (11124)
JakartaJazz (5457)
NEEWBE (5506)

JakartaJazz posts small blind (150)
NEEWBE posts big blind (300)

** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NateHate: Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Gawlfa34 folds.
Ratman737 calls (300)
TimWakefield folds.
MarkV12 calls (300)
ping2331 folds.
NateHate raises (2310) to 2310
NateHate is all-In.


Hand #2: About 250 people left

It looked like I was going to make the money, so I decided to take a chance with this hand and bluff my way to the pot. I planned to fold if the Villian re-raised me all-in. Instead, the bastard re-raised me only 1200 chips, so I decided to call his raise and push the flop if I liked it. Otherwise, I was going to check/fold. My stack was about 1000 chips below average.

pat3767 (16674)
auger74 (14705)
NEEWBE (811)
Stinger101 (7190)
TimWakefield (12409)
MarkV12 (7978)
mythara (10770)
NateHate (6258)
nonickname1 (910)
mythara posts small blind (300)
NateHate posts big blind (600)

** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NateHate K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

pat3767 folds.
auger74 calls (600)
NEEWBE folds.
Stinger101 folds.
nonickname1 folds.
TimWakefield folds.
MarkV12 folds.
mythara folds.
NateHate raises (1200) to 1800
auger74 raises (2400) to 3000
NateHate calls (1200)

** Dealing Flop ** : J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
NateHate bets (3258)
NateHate is all-In.


Hand #3: About 230 people left

10 people to the money. I had the big blind covered, so I expected him to fold. I would have folded if any of the larger stacks between me and the big blind had challenged me.

Stinger101 (7190)
TimWakefield (12409)
MarkV12 (7978)
mythara (10470)
deboomkikker (12498)
NateHate (12516)
pat3767 (15662)
auger74 (7847)
NEEWBE (3633)

auger74 posts small blind (300)
NEEWBE posts big blind (600)

** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NateHate 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Stinger101 folds.
TimWakefield folds.
MarkV12 folds.
mythara folds.
deboomkikker folds.
NateHate raises (1600) to 1600
pat3767 folds.
auger74 folds.
NEEWBE raises (3033) to 3633
NEEWBE is all-In.
NateHate calls (2033)

[bmxreed36]

Hand #1

I think I like it although it would be better with reads. You have just enough to make them fold alot of hands and if successful, you increase your stack by 50% and it's a good hand to do it with IMO.

Hand #2

This one I don't like so much. Considering an early position limp from a big stack, your raise probably doesn't have much fold equity. I would just check and see a flop here. Once you did raise and he min-raised, you pretty much had to call and also go with the flop.

Hand #3

Seems alright to raise here, sounds like you have a plan if one of the bigger stacks reraises. One thing I do when raising a shorter or average stack on the bubble is manipulate my bet size (if possible) so that if he pushes, I will know for sure if I'm going to call. For example, if I have a crap hand, I may raise just a little less, so that an all-in raise by him will give me incorrect odds to call and I can lay it down easily. Or raise just a little extra so that he knows you will be calling a push and you know that if he pushes, you're calling. In this hand, you have the odds to call with pretty much anything.

[Dave D]

Hand #1.

Eh, marginal. I think this is table dependent, if you think they'd fold good move. You're pretty low stacked, so meh sure.

Hand #2

I really don't like this. The only time I'm not pushing with 10 BBs or less is if I have QQ-AA. And that's because I'm trying to get a little action and/or am hoping someone pushes over on me. Jacks is a push. AK is a push. That being said, I don't know if I'd push K9, totally table read dependent but I'd probably wait for a medium ace at least. I think you have to look at it this way, if villian had pushed on you, and you plan to fold, you just donked away 1/3 your stack. That's just bad poker. Better to get it all in and maximize FE, as even if everyone folds you get 2.5 BBs, pretty significant.

edit: Didn't notice you were the BB. This is an easy check for me, it would disguise your hand and let you open push the flop.

Hand #3

Nothing huge here. Personally I like 3 or 3.5x the BB, but whatever. Definatly gotta call his push. Seems pretty standard if you've decided to steal with this hand. I think that's the only critisism, as now you're forced to show you've been stealing with crap.