Posted Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:34 am GMT by MrDarling
Ok, I'll admit, this is more of a bad beat, but I also wanted your opinion about the play of this hand. Maybe I didn't need to risk all my chips with it.
First history, this is a private MTT. I've been moved to a new table where only 4 players are alive. The rest are ghosts.
1 big stack and the rest pretty even. Surprisingly, BS doesn't still all the dead money and we pretty much divide it even (was spoken, simply happen due to our spread position)
One player kept raising and folding to a reraise or to a flop raise and became low.
When ever BS stack was involved in a pot he would put the other player AI on the flop if was checked to.
BS dbld SS by calling AI on a flop with A high (A7o)
She raised pre, he called OOP. He checked, she bet. call. On the turn he put her AI unimproved.
Later SS busted out (was a real fish, she thought her 6 kicker might be good enough)
So BS though not a maniac, would raise every time I limped PF and bet every time it was checked to him.
First hand between us :
Full Tilt Poker Game #2067576700: RaketheRake Freeroll (15387512), Table 59 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:32:50 ET - 2007/03/25
Seat 1: Hives_99 (1,045), is sitting out
Seat 2: NewYorkMony (1,000), is sitting out
Seat 3: tres pesos (1,050), is sitting out
Seat 4: weak_player (975), is sitting out
Seat 5: Smick_001 (3,240)
Seat 6: Dom4ces (1,005), is sitting out
Seat 7: Hero (1,620)
Seat 8: CatFighter (6,460)
Seat 9: pokerhard24 (1,065), is sitting out
Dom4ces posts the small blind of 30
Hero posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero  
CatFighter raises to 185
pokerhard24 folds
Hives_99 folds
NewYorkMony folds
tres pesos folds
weak_player folds
Smick_001 folds
Dom4ces fold
Hero calls 125
Didn't reraised PF as wanted to see a flop and didn't feel like committing too much. Also, if I hit I could dbl up
*** FLOP ***   
Hero checks
dream flop - plan to c/r. Unless he has A's,AK,AT A6 or a set, I'm slightly ahead
CatFighter bets 1,500
Hero calls 1,435, and is all in
CatFighter shows  
Hero shows
Uncalled bet of 65 returned to CatFighter
*** TURN *** 
*** RIVER *** 
CatFighter shows a pair of Kings
Hero shows a flush, Ace high
Hero wins the pot (3,270) with a flush, Ace high
Smick_001: nh
The very next hand I get AQ again, in the SB. I plan a trap.
Full Tilt Poker Game #2067582429: RaketheRake Freeroll (15387512), Table 59 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 15:33:39 ET - 2007/03/25
CatFighter: lucky
Seat 1: Hives_99 (1,045), is sitting out
Seat 2: NewYorkMony (1,000), is sitting out
Seat 3: tres pesos (1,050), is sitting out
Seat 4: weak_player (975), is sitting out
Seat 5: Smick_001 (3,240)
Seat 6: Dom4ces (975), is sitting out
Seat 7: Hero (3,270)
Seat 8: CatFighter (4,840)
Seat 9: pokerhard24 (1,065), is sitting out
Hero posts the small blind of 30
CatFighter posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero 
pokerhard24 folds
Hives_99 folds
NewYorkMony folds
tres pesos folds
weak_player folds
Smick_001 folds
Dom4ces folds
Hero calls 30
CatFighter raises to 250
Smick_001: Cat gonna bleed chips here
Hero raises to 3,270, and is all in
CatFighter calls 3,020
And it works. Thought about this move? Sure there is a small chance he has a real hand that crushes me. but there are not that many. A's-Q's and AK are the only hands that put me in a real bad position.
If I just call and see a flop, I would have to fold UI, since I know he will bet big and he could have had anything. (As he will raise with Axo or with any 2 face cards - and he could be steaming, I've seen him start raising big after losing a big pot before)
Obviously , it didn't work this time. I had the exact range I was hoping for but he out drew me :
Hero shows
CatFighter shows 
*** FLOP ***   
*** TURN *** 
*** RIVER *** 
The real question here : should I have allowed the pot to be this big in the first place?
Though I believe had I raised PF, he would have called anyway (knowing his hand) and would have put me AI regardless of the flop. So unless I hit I would have had to fold it.
I feel ok about this hand, but want comments non the less
thanks
danny
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Posted Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:02 am GMT by ninetensuited
Dannyk, you should never want to play for all of your chips.....i try to avoid getting all in unless im short stacked
Posted Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:47 am GMT by MrDarling
Are we talking about the 1st hand or the 2nd one?
I presume hand one is a call, since we are actually only behind a set.
Hand 2 , should I have maybe raised before? Flat call his raise? Raise less?
Problem with flat calling and raising less is that I would have had to hit to continue with the hand. From his play I was pretty sure he will put me AI on the flop regardless of the flop. And since I am not sure of his range, I couldn't call unless I hit TP.
Yeah, maybe I should have raised less though. He might had a small pair and then I was coin flipping to my tournament life. Or maybe I shouldn't have tried to be tricky and raise 1st. I think I was able to fold this post flop.
Thanks for your comment.
Tonight I have a live Freeroll, so I'll keep that in mind.
(I keep worrying about getting A's early on, and going bust against a fish with T7s)
Posted Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:12 pm GMT by exit music
I don't really see your re--raise as the problem here, I don't like AQo as a powerful limp-raise hand. Although I just noticed that this tournament was a freeroll, in which case I like the play... but in any real-money tournament I just would have made a regular PRF of 4xBB and played it pretty normally after that post flop, probably Cbetting then folding when he obviously resists with TPTK
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