Cold deck or badly played?

J29622 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 09:04 PM

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

saw flop|saw showdown

CO (t4715)
Hero (t1210)
SB (t1260)
BB (t1850)
UTG (t3375)
MP (t1090)

Preflop: Hero is Button with

,

.
1 fold, MP raises to t100, CO calls t100, Hero raises to t200, 2 folds, MP raises to t1090, CO folds, Hero calls t890.

Flop: (t2355)

,

(2 players)

Turn: (t2355)

(2 players)

River: (t2355)

(2 players)

Final Pot: t2355

Results below:
MP has

(two pair, kings and twos).
Hero has

(two pair, nines and twos).
Outcome: MP wins t2355.

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Should I have mucked this preflop or was I supposed to broke here?

squeezyplayer · #2 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 09:22 PM

i'm allin the first time it gets to me, don't make a stupid little min reraise.

Trons · #3 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 09:28 PM

I'm not much of a tourney player, but my opinion is:

A) I don't like the min raise PF. I think I probably would have put about 400 here...

B) I wouldn't have called the push. I put his (imho) probably hands that he would push with PF into pokerstove (AA-TT, AKs, AKo, AQs, AQ) and i come up with you as a 2:1 underdog to those potential hands.

You still have plenty of chips (even with a 300 raise, you're still looking at 45bb which at this stage in the tourney would be enough play your A game and hopefully come back).

Don't get me wrong, I don't like his raise either. but we're not talking about how he played

Take this opinion for what it's worth and I'm sure somebody will disagree with me.

J29622 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 09:35 PM

What the hell, I didn't min-raise.

That's weird, I reraised to 350. I know that for a fact because I distincly remember putting those numbers in.

J29622 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 09:35 PM

And I didn't have 45x the BB, I had 24x the BB which is quite a bit different.

Also bear in mind that a lot of the players here at the lower limits are either maniac/donkeys/calling stations so their shove range of hands really isn't as tight as that. He could easily have been doing it with a 33 or a 44, or maybe even a A8 where I am a big favorite.

sk8freak_21 · #6 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 09:54 PM

im a tourney player, and i am not getting my money in this early

MTdemocrat · #7 (**permalink**) 07-23-2007, 10:01 PM

Way to early. Even if you pull a major suckout here and double up you can get your money in at a better spot w/ a better edge. Chips later in the tournament are worht more than a double up now!!

The early stages of a SNG are about SURVIVING. You only want to get your money in when you are a huge (4-1 or better) favorite.