You are Gus Hansen in the SB with 97 suited |
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Posted Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:48 am GMT by jimmer
(Extract taken from Gus Hansen's blog on Gushansenpoker.com).
"I was very pleased about playing the short-handed $2500 NLH tournament. The structure is very fast compared to the start stack of 5000, and it definitely favors players like myself who like to play a lot of pots.
I arrived two hours late and sat down at a table with Dario Minieri, an Italian on-line phenom. Dario is the epitome of hyper-aggression and pretty darn proud of it too, I think. If Dario re-re-raises you all-in fairly early in a tournament, be it deep or short-stacked, you never know whether he has the goodies or rags and dolls. I saw him bust AK pre-flop today with 94o or something like that – full speed ahead without any regard for poker conventions or established truths. On the one hand, you gotta love that approach! One the other hand, I believe it is very hard to actually win a live tournament that way because there are spots where you have to stop and put it in reverse.
Be that as it may – it didn't take long for Dario and myself to get tangled and when the smoke cleared I had doubled up to 10k and Dario was down to about 11-12k. He hit top pair and I hit a set of Queens – nothing much you can do at this level if you are hyper aggressive.
In another hand, I did try to induce a third barrel bluff from Dario in a hand, where I flopped two pair and made a flush on the river, but alas he took his finger off the trigger – hyper aggression my ass J.
Fast forward to my final hand of the day. We are playing 100/200. I have just about 10k in chips. The button (also sitting pretty with a 10k stack) opens for 550, I call in the SB holding 7  9 . The BB calls"
The flop is
K  9  7
Gus Hansen????????
Your move, amounts and reasons why are....?
The check raise seems the obvious move, but with Gus Hansens reputation this could seem a bit predictable.
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