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Originally Posted by ruexp67,Jan 15 2007, 08:50 PM
So, I was playing tonight, got out drawn twice and became the short stack. I fold, and fold, and scratch, and fold to stay alive.
I get down to just a hair over 3x the BB, and am dealt AA. The table folds to me, and I push. The SB raises the bet, and the BB cannot fold fast enough. The SB turns over K/5h.
Of course, he flops a K, turns a flush draw, and catches a second K on the river.
I know I was betting into a situation where the play is to call me with any two, and I know that AA is FAR from a sure thing. But the RAISE is what slayed me. I couldn't stop laughing.
Earlier I was playing, and no matter what I could not hit a flop. I was down to about 10x the BB and decided the next decent hand I got, I would push with. Three people limp in, in front of me. I push all in. It folds around to the guy in first position, who had limped in. He decides to call my all-in with 4/3c. The bet was only about 1/3 of his chips, but 4 high!? He flopped a 4 there were two 8s on board and he turned the 3. Three pair 
My A high was no good.
These are the things that drive me NUTS!
I get down to just a hair over 3x the BB, and am dealt AA. The table folds to me, and I push. The SB raises the bet, and the BB cannot fold fast enough. The SB turns over K/5h.
Of course, he flops a K, turns a flush draw, and catches a second K on the river.I know I was betting into a situation where the play is to call me with any two, and I know that AA is FAR from a sure thing. But the RAISE is what slayed me. I couldn't stop laughing.
Earlier I was playing, and no matter what I could not hit a flop. I was down to about 10x the BB and decided the next decent hand I got, I would push with. Three people limp in, in front of me. I push all in. It folds around to the guy in first position, who had limped in. He decides to call my all-in with 4/3c.
The bet was only about 1/3 of his chips, but 4 high!? He flopped a 4 there were two 8s on board and he turned the 3. Three pair My A high was no good. These are the things that drive me NUTS!
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Originally Posted by ruexp67,Jan 15 2007, 08:43 PM
Two choices,
One: Limp with your PP. I am not a fan of this because you can get outdrawn with crap. If someone reraises you, the odds are there to fold.
Two: Raise more than 3x the BB with them. It's a bit of a tell, but it ALMOST guarantees that a re-raise will be a bigger PP.
Bottom line, you have to be careful with it.
One: Limp with your PP. I am not a fan of this because you can get outdrawn with crap. If someone reraises you, the odds are there to fold.
Two: Raise more than 3x the BB with them. It's a bit of a tell, but it ALMOST guarantees that a re-raise will be a bigger PP.
Bottom line, you have to be careful with it.
Two: I was doing between 2 and 3 x the pot (there are 9 antes in it at this point, so a 3x BB raise leaves really good pot odds - i.e. 150/300 + 225 in antes, 600 to call a 1575 pot = 2.5:1 instead of the usual 3.5:1). But even that was a huge portion of my stack.
The last time this happened, I also had the (mis)fortune of having a very solid player right after me... who happened to get bigger hands each time I had a big one (AJs v AKo, 88 v AA) toward the end.
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Tonight's classic:
9 seat table pot limit hold em, I'm at #4 (#1 being SB and #2 being BB). 3 folds, I have AKo and raise 1/2 the pot (blinds were 80/160, so the raise was to 400), 5 and 6 fold, 7 reraises to ~1000 all in, 8 reraises to 4000 all-in... I call.
Great hands here...
5 has KQo (dominated by me and thus a huge dog), and 6 has... 22. board is all middles and dueces wins a huge pot (and basically ends my tournament). Who the fuck calls a raise and reraise with DEUCES?
9 seat table pot limit hold em, I'm at #4 (#1 being SB and #2 being BB). 3 folds, I have AKo and raise 1/2 the pot (blinds were 80/160, so the raise was to 400), 5 and 6 fold, 7 reraises to ~1000 all in, 8 reraises to 4000 all-in... I call.
Great hands here...
5 has KQo (dominated by me and thus a huge dog), and 6 has... 22. board is all middles and dueces wins a huge pot (and basically ends my tournament). Who the fuck calls a raise and reraise with DEUCES?
