4 Responses to “Party Poker $50k Hand History Review Featuring Jamie Kerstetter (Part 1)”

  3. fishgirl

    Please i like to ask (my english is not so good). At arouned 30 min and 46 sec the hand you have aa and 56.000. about you min raise to 2400. My qestion is that the small blind only has to put 1800 more to call and the big blind 1.200 more to call. Both have very good odds for set mining if they have pairs (well they dident BUT you dident now that) SO PLEASE can you explain me why you was happy to put all youre money in-46 blinds!!!- when you got raised on the flop – he or both couled have a set!!! I mean preflop you raised and they called. There was no 3 bet so then they wouled pay expensive and then i understand to be happy to play 46 blinds with aa. But now there was ONLY a raise and 2 calls (easy set mining as i wrote before) SO why are we happy to play there our 46 blinds??? You dont now that he is drawing for a flush. (well he was BUT you dident now that) If you hade 27-32 blinds then ok we must play it like that (i think) but 46 blinds with no 3 bet pre flop is it correct??? and if it is correct , wouled it then still -again- be correct if you even hade 56 or even 66 blinds effective stack OR then you wouled use pot control please? Thank you so mush. Can you answer me please?

    • theginger45

      Hey, so I guess Jaime’s not around for a while so I’ll be happy to give some insight.

      I think you’re getting too hung up on two things:

      1) The number of blinds Jaime has, instead of the actual size of the pot

      2) The worst case scenario rather than villain’s entire range

      With 1), the number of blinds Jaime has is far less significant than the size of the pot, because the pot is already huge. With three preflop calls, a c-bet and one call already in there, there’s a lot of money out there by the time the SB shoves all-in. This means Jaime is getting much better odds to call it off, which should make her much more likely to call.

      With 2), obviously it’s possible that either of the villains could have a set here. However, we can’t afford to be scared money and just assume our opponent always has the nuts, we have to think about their entire range – in this case, the SB could have a set, but they could also have a flush draw, a hand like T9, or even a weaker overpair like TT. Remember, we’re not trying to figure out our opponent’s exact hand, we’re making judgments about their range and responding accordingly. In this case, AA is way ahead of the SB’s range, so it’s a great spot.

      Hope that helps!

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