PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: ITH Forums)
Button (t1500)
SB (t1500)
BB (t1500)
UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1500)
Hero (t1500)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
MP3 (t1500)
CO (t1500)
Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with,
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2 folds, Hero calls t20, 1 fold, MP2 raises to t120, 5 folds, Hero raises to t280, MP2 raises to t440, Hero folds.
Final Pot: t750
Results in white below:
No showdown. MP2 wins t750.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: ITH Forums)
SB (t1380)
BB (t1655)
UTG (t1805)
Hero (t930)
CO (t4655)
Button (t4575)
Preflop: Hero is MP with,
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UTG calls t150, Hero raises to t930, 1 fold, Button calls t930, 1 fold, BB calls t780, UTG folds.
Flop: (t3015),
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(3 players)
BB bets t725 (All-In), Button calls t725.
Turn: (t4465)(3 players, 1 all-in)
River: (t4465)(3 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: t4465
Results in white below:
BB has 3d 3h (three of a kind, threes).
Hero has Ts Th (one pair, tens).
Button has 9h Jd (one pair, nines).
Outcome: BB wins t4465.
Good fold? Good push?
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Thread: TT on 1st and last hands
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05-03-2006 #1
TT on 1st and last hands
"There is a good chance I gave you a very bad description of something that doesn't work."
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05-03-2006 #2
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05-03-2006 #3
Hand #1- why the reraise? Either you think your ahead and should push or you should flat call and look to hit a set.
Hand #2 - I'd push here in a second.
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05-03-2006 #4Poker Hustler
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1st hand, re-raising is not a good idea.
2nd hand, definately fold you know for sure. You are short stacked and you'll definately get a better spot, you know if you push you'll get called by an underpair and they'll hit their 2 outer.
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05-05-2006 #5
2nd hand: Yeah I know, easy push. Just posted it because it made for a nice storyline for the post - 1st & last hand the same. Can you frickin' believe the BB calling half his stack w/ 33 and then pushing into a dry side pot with that flop? WTF?
1st hand: OK, I may have donked this. Limp from UTG+2 I'll do every time with no reads on the table. Play for set value vs. multiple opponents. But when MP2 made the big raise (6bb) I became isolated against him.
My thoughts:
I could fold. Don't mix it up too much with a middle pair on the first hand.
I could push. Nearly did this. Thought, screw it... either double up quick or move to the next tourney.
I could call. Problem with this is that I didn't know if I was against a big A or a higher pair or a maniac. If I play for set value here, it costs me 100 chips. I'll get a T on the flop 12% of the time and no guarantee that I double up. I just wasn't crazy about my implied odds here.
So I raised. My thinking behind the raise is this: Most players at this level will come over the top with JJ-AA and maybe AK. Most, IMO, will call my reraise with AQ-Ax, KQ or 55-99. If he had called my raise, I would have played aggressive on any flop without an Ace. If an ace hit the flop I would have bailed.
But of course, he didn't call my reraise, he min-raised. Min-raise was a red flag for me. He wasn't trying to push me out, he was trying to string me along. At this point I felt strongly that he had JJ-AA and not AK. Without knowing anything about this guy, I figured that I was most likely a big underdog and I folded.
I'm probably in the minority with this thinking, but I'd like to hear more thoughts."There is a good chance I gave you a very bad description of something that doesn't work."
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05-05-2006 #6
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05-05-2006 #7
On hand one after the min re-raise you put him on JJ-AA? Assuming your correct (he's not just maniac). Your still getting about 1:4 direct odds and silly implied odds if you flop a set. I guess the problem is if you miss your down 1/3 of your stack on the first hand.
I still think the best play is flat calling the raise, but I'm much more cofident in my post-flop skills. Harrington talks about how players are usually good pre-flop or post, I'm definatly the latter so I usually look to keep things cheap before the flop. But If I were better at making pre-flop decisions, I could see your arguement for the re-raise to find out where your at.
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