Posted Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:01 pm GMT by exit music
This is from the same tournament as before.
Blinds were at 25/50, I was around 1500 in chips after starting out with 1000. There were 6/10 people remaining.
I was in the BB with K-Qo and the whole table folded around to the small blind. SB made it 150 to go. This player often makes raises with shitty hands like K10s ect from the small blind because he is that terrible, so preflop I decided to call.
The flop came K-J-7.
Small blind leads out for 100 chips inot the 300 pot, I make it 350 to go, hoping to take the pot down right there, but SB called.
The Turn: J
Small blind leads out for 450. You have about 1000 in your stack and there is already about 1000 in the pot - what do you do?
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Posted Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:22 pm GMT by UrAteUp
Call and pray? Seriously this being a tournament I probably would have pushed after the flop. Hard to tell what villian has. Was that lead bet an attempt to make you think he has a J in his hand or does he really have it? Hard to tell and more often then not I won't chance it so I will most likely lay this hand down on the turn and wait for a better chance to get all his chips in the pot.
Posted Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:30 pm GMT by aaronw
Also, if you think hes weak PF, why not raise? I think its better to raise PF and not give him the opportiunity to hit a lucky flop.
Posted Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:20 pm GMT by exit music
I easily could have raised preflop because his range of raise hands is literally 22+, JTs+, but any hand he raised with, he would call a re-raise with. I could write a book on how this guy plays, he's the worst player at our table, highly predictable in the fact that he'll never lay down a hand.
I also could have pushed on the flop, however I am very much a small-ball player, I like to play small pots with a hand like TP, although because it's a tournament, pushing wouldn't have been out of the question. I was expecting to take down the pot after my re-raise on the flop.
My read on him after the flop was A-J, KT, KQ, AK, KJ, or even QJ.
Posted Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:56 pm GMT by Jauron
You know him well enough to write a book... you should know him well enough to know if he'd lead out with the J on the turn. You should have your own answer.
Most "bad" players are not very tricky, and abuse the same moves over and over.
BTW, with your "reads" you can beat one hand and tie another, and loose against the rest, this should be an easy fold...
Posted Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:24 am GMT by exit music
I thought it was pretty unlikely for him to be leading out and betting at me with just a pair of kings, so I took my 1000 chips and folded.
He had K10 
Powa poka
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