by scorch- » Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:01 pm
Polak wrote:there was a guy at the table who had about 150K in chips. He just doubled up through 3 out of 5 hands in a row, he always had an Ace, Ace 8, then AK, then AJ.
the guy was getting hit by the deck.
anyway he fires another raise to 11K while being UTG +2 or +1. im one position behind the button with about 45K, ive been waiting to make a move forever. the blinds are 1.5K/3K
I call with QJ of clubs and him and I are heads up. Flop is A,Q,10 rainbow, he checks i shoot out 20K and he guy snap calls me. turn is 4 of clubs he checks, i shove, he says he has to call and he has AJ.
river is a brick and i lost. i just couldn't put him on another ace and my patience was wearing thin. it sucks playing for 9 hours and nothing to show for it. this was also my second 100K+ tourney and i feel like there is still a lot to learn.
Sucks watching someone else pick up a bunch of hands while you're sitting with weaker. Definitely have done the same.
If you want to learn I'll give my advice in that spot, you don't have to read it if you don't want to.
Flatting there is pretty bad. PFR hasn't really been out of line. Raising A8 late position with a small stack is normal. AK and AJ are standard raises in MP as well. With an EP raise, he knows he's not getting much credit because he's raised so much recently, so you expect a fairly strong hand out of him unless he's the type to think he can level the entire table. If you think he's that type and that he's weak in this spot, just come over the top and shove... but I don't think he's weak here too often. He'll have a really hard time calling with anything less than AQs/JJ+ in that spot as long as you don't have a crazy image, so you do have some FE from mid-pairs and ATs/AJ type hands.
My suggestion is to just fold. You have position on the guy, but QJ is a speculative hand that you can't call with if you get squeezed pre-. You're also not deep enough to make QJ a profitable flat versus an EP opening range. If you think he's opening wide, a shove might be profitable, but he has to fold a lot of his range for that to be the case. QJ is a weak hand heads-up in these situations. You need to be much deeper to be flatting here (or playing the hand at all to an EP raise).
[quote="Polak"]there was a guy at the table who had about 150K in chips. He just doubled up through 3 out of 5 hands in a row, he always had an Ace, Ace 8, then AK, then AJ.
the guy was getting hit by the deck.
anyway he fires another raise to 11K while being UTG +2 or +1. im one position behind the button with about 45K, ive been waiting to make a move forever. the blinds are 1.5K/3K
I call with QJ of clubs and him and I are heads up. Flop is A,Q,10 rainbow, he checks i shoot out 20K and he guy snap calls me. turn is 4 of clubs he checks, i shove, he says he has to call and he has AJ.
river is a brick and i lost. i just couldn't put him on another ace and my patience was wearing thin. it sucks playing for 9 hours and nothing to show for it. this was also my second 100K+ tourney and i feel like there is still a lot to learn.[/quote]
Sucks watching someone else pick up a bunch of hands while you're sitting with weaker. Definitely have done the same.
If you want to learn I'll give my advice in that spot, you don't have to read it if you don't want to.
Flatting there is pretty bad. PFR hasn't really been out of line. Raising A8 late position with a small stack is normal. AK and AJ are standard raises in MP as well. With an EP raise, he knows he's not getting much credit because he's raised so much recently, so you expect a fairly strong hand out of him unless he's the type to think he can level the entire table. If you think he's that type and that he's weak in this spot, just come over the top and shove... but I don't think he's weak here too often. He'll have a really hard time calling with anything less than AQs/JJ+ in that spot as long as you don't have a crazy image, so you do have some FE from mid-pairs and ATs/AJ type hands.
My suggestion is to just fold. You have position on the guy, but QJ is a speculative hand that you can't call with if you get squeezed pre-. You're also not deep enough to make QJ a profitable flat versus an EP opening range. If you think he's opening wide, a shove might be profitable, but he has to fold a lot of his range for that to be the case. QJ is a weak hand heads-up in these situations. You need to be much deeper to be flatting here (or playing the hand at all to an EP raise).