No read on the guy at all. Partly because he hadn't done anything worth noting and partly because I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have been. When the hand was done, I said something like "let me guess, you had something like A10, right?" And he responded by saying "No, I had KJ of spades and was on the draw. Did you have a pocket pair?"

Could just be BSing me, trying to get me on tilt or something but I don't see how I could have called here with that A staring me in the face.





PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (6 handed)

BB (t1342)
UTG (t1930)
MP (t2145)
Hero (t2080)
Button (t1855)
SB (t1958)

Preflop: Hero is CO with , .
1 fold, MP raises to t200, Hero raises to t800, 3 folds, MP calls t600.

Flop: (t1675) , , (2 players)
MP bets t1345 (All-In), Hero folds.

Final Pot: t3020

Results in white below:
No showdown. MP wins t3020.

easy fold.

if ur gonna re-raise preflop here for almost half your stack, why not just push it preflop?

thats y ur a losing player seany...

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I guess I kind of find myself doing this a lot. When I pick up solid hands I want to encourage action but then get myself into situations where I'm forced to make tough decisions.

In the example above I hadn't seen a solid hand for so long and, with the way the cards were going for me, I didn't think I'd see another one for months. So I wanted to get as much action (read as: opponents chips) as I could. I'm afraid that pushing all-in will make my opponent fold his marginal hand and I'll only pick up the blinds plus his raise.

I just call or push all in preflop..
easy fold on the flop

He had the nut flush draw, it's pretty standard to move all in.

he called your bet on the flop, if he had AK he woulda reraised you preflop all in probably and if he had A10 he woulda flat called like you suggested.

if he did have A10 then he probably wouldnt have gone all in after the flop was down cus of his kicker and so he might've had A8 tops (probably not A5).
In this situation i would either put him on 2 pair with aces, a bluff, or a draw. Yet if he did hit 2 pair he may have slow played it or raised less than that.

There's no straight possibilities or anything and it is always hard to count out the ace and so i probably would have done the same thing. you weren't too committed to the pot and he overbet the pot as well. You definately wernt getting good odds if he had 2 pair so all you could called on was thinking he had a draw or bluffed