Posted Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:28 pm GMT by mooseontheloose
Here's the situation...
I'm in an MTT, blinds are moving and I'm at around 2000 (blinds 100/200 I think). I'm the 2nd or 3rd lowest on the table and dealt pocket 10s.
I'm last to act, someone in MP raises about 4xBB, person right to my right reraises All-in. Now this guy had a large stack and I was 99% sure he was just bullying for the blinds and other bets in the middle. He liked to use his stack.
I folded.
I thought it was right but a friend of mine, pretty loose, told me afterward that with my stack being low I had to make that call. My I felt that with a raise from MP it was likely that guy would call and probably has me beat. The guy who reraised likely has a mediocre hand but having even 1 overcard (quite likely...I put him on Ax) is bad for me.
I was sure I did the right thing folding but wanted to see what others felt. In my position, was that my shot to double-up? I assumed not considering I had a raiser behind me still to act.
Note: The raiser from MP folded and the re-raiser showed A6s, so my read on him was correct and I was obviously then unsure if my move was correct as heads-up I would've been in decent shape to double-up.
Oh and both guys had me covered in chips but a lot.
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Posted Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:30 pm GMT by shorn7
I would have pushed based on your stack size. The first raiser will not call multiple pushes without a huge hand and the second guy likely has AK. Also, if the first raiser has high cards, the overlap helps you since some of the puts are gone.
You are getting too low on chips to fold a hand this good at this point.
Posted Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:41 pm GMT by mooseontheloose
Basically what I expected to hear. I think at the time I just overanalyzed the situation and felt beat, but in reality I was likely better off than I thought and needed to take advantage of the situation. I eventually doubled up afterward so at the time, again I felt I'd made the right play.
After making my post (as I reread it) I realized that, like you said, I should've pushed - the LP guy was somewhat loose and MP was very tight, which is what originally scared me but you brought up the good point that he would likely avoid a 3-way with a monster like AA.
Thanks, I'd basically realized it was a mistake but what you said showed me my 2nd-thoughts here were correct. I had like 3 people looking over my shoulder and giving me opinions while I played that hand, it was distracting and I guess I just didn't allow myself to really think about it.
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