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Landlord79 says
I'm not a tourney player, but it looks like you committed yourself on the reraise and had to call regardless. You went w/ a read that turned out to be wrong, it happens, lucky for you that the cards went your way in a 60/40. Congrats on the win!!!!08/18/07
EdmondDantes says
Congrats on win! I'm not sure I'm following the hand, though, as you describe it. Given the stack sizes before the hand, how did he pushed "making the pot 200k" and you then have 2:1 odds? I'm not wild about the call even with the odds. If you were first in and raised and he shoved, maybe, but a 4-bet from the chip leader? I'd think I was WAY behind to that range. But what do I know...you weren't. Nice spike!08/18/07
Swami54 says
You're right...the pot was more like 270ish. It was late when I wrote that :)08/18/07
Anonymous says
It sounds like you dug yourself out of a big hole. It boils down to a bad read that worked out, good for you! In order to win you most likely have to lay a bad one on somebody late in the tournament. In hindsight, you should have folded to the rr, but you had a read(which was wrong) but it worked out. Is there a candy named suckout? Cause they taste sooo sweeet!08/18/07
Swami54 says
Based on odds I shouldn't fold to the rr. I only need 25% equity to call which is an extremely wide range of hands.equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 69.132% 68.80% 00.33% 62438827 299985.50 { JJ+, AJs+, AQo+ }
Hand 1: 30.868% 30.54% 00.33% 27713314 299985.50 { Kc9c }
I entered a tight reraising range for the Villain but his initial raising range is very wide. He folds a very large percentage of those hands to my reraise. I guess the question is what range of hands should I be making this play with?
08/19/07
Anonymous says
Congats. nice win.08/19/07
lakong says
I think the play and thinking was a bit flawed, but you had to call IMHO. When the guys raises from the button, unless he is a total tight nitt, your raise is fine, but why raise half your stack? If you believe he would be raising from the button with a large percentage of hands -- hey, most solid players would raise with almost any two -- then a RR push is pretty standard too. He knows that you are pushing with almost any two, but still needs a good hand to call you. He probably makes the button raise with almost any two cards, but would only call you with a pair -- perhaps it has to be 77 or better for some players, a strong A or a hand like KQ or maybe KJ. I would say that it could be rough for him to call you with an A worse than A9. So a push makes great sense with your hand.The problem with your 90k RR is that you basically need to call his potential push because you are getting about the right odds for his potential push holdings. I think it's wider than you identified. I would add pairs over 77 and Aces doens to A9. But why put yourself to the decision? If he's good he realizes that you have pretty much committed yourself and will call your push, so your raise is pretty much the same as a push. But still... just to make the point you might as well just push. Make sense?
Anyway, everyone needs a good suck-out to win one of these things. Great going. I enjoy reading these things, keep them coming.
08/19/07
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Another first place
by Swami54 on 08/17/07
After writing my entry today I entered a Stars $109 and finished 2nd to last...lol. I had TP with a fdraw and villain flopped a flush with 24s. Then I entered the Bodog 25k gtd and took first place. I usually go out Friday and Saturday nights but I happened to be around and cha ching! The 5th place FTOPS was on a Friday too...hmmmmm
Here was a critical hand that gave me the chip lead...kind of a donk move...curious what people think.
Blinds 6k/12k 1200 ante
7 people left
The button was the chip leader and had been active.
Button 360k
Hero SB 165k
He raised to 30K. I had K
9 I figured I was ahead of his range so I rr to 90k
He pushed making the pot roughly 270k and I called getting greater than 2:1
He turned over A
J ugh! but I spiked a 9I was planning on calling a push with my rr as I felt the extra chips would well be worth it. Please let me know what you think.
