November 8, 2010
Got very stuck with this situation – not much history, villain has 7/7/0 so he's obv playing big hands. My stats 20/13/4. Can I put him on AK/AQ and assume he's missed here?
Poker Stars $50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament – t50/t100 Blinds – 9 players
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BTN): t6320 63.20 BBs
SB: t2900 29 BBs
BB: t2798 27.98 BBs
UTG: t5161 51.61 BBs
UTG+1: t2775 27.75 BBs
UTG+2: t4775 47.75 BBs
MP1: t1001 10.01 BBs
MP2: t1776 17.76 BBs
CO: t4254 42.54 BBs
Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BTN with 8 8
6 folds, Hero calls t100, SB raises to t350, 1 fold, Hero calls t250
Flop: (t800) 6 3 4 (2 players)
SB bets t450, Hero raises to t900, SB raises to t2550 all in
Having trouble playing the steal/re-steal later in tournaments at the moment. Any advice in this spot would be much appreciated
You open limped which is going to complicate your read a bit here, because now you can't define the SB's actions as purely based on representing a strong hand over your button open. The open limp in this situation introduces a whole gammit of hands that could be attacking you. I wouldn't put a huge amount of faith in the early level STATs as so much can be skewed by if he is playing multiple tables, or other early game dependant manuevers (for perspective I tend to play a lot like that very early as well and then open way up to a 20/18 – 22/18 by the later stages). That being said, I think the limp is a bad play. If you want to play the hand, raise it, you will spare yourself a lot of these weird spots. Once the flop comes because of how you played pre-flop I don't think I can range him terribly well. If you had open/raised and he re-raised you I think you can start to make a few more conclusions about what is going on, but in this situation for me given your opening action I think this could very well be either a huge hand or air trying to punish you. It is very hard to play sometimes when dealing with that sort of polarization.
That being said I think if the roles are reversed and you are in the SB I am going to attack a BTN limp like I am holding AA every time. I think this sort of play is highly exploitable in the micro's and is a really nice way to chip up.
All in all on your hand I don't think I re-raise, I would call the bet and see what he does on the turn as I think that street will be your best place to define what is going on. If you call his 3bet and his lead on the flop and he barrels again, fold you are crushed. If he checks the turn you may be able to see showdown with nothing else invested as he very well may be done trying to push you off your hand.
October 6, 2010
if you mini raise on the flop, what are you hoping for? for a fold or to get villain to shove?
if you are just doing this without a plan, then thats your biggest mistake imo.
November 8, 2010
OK, as played. you have to call off the rest. otherwise you literally turned your 88 into 27o
I would raise preflop 100% of the time. It just makes things so much easier and as a rule you just pretty much never want to limp into pots. however obviously there is rare situations where limping is Okay….say 5 players limp and you have 98 of spades in the small blind with like 40bbs, perfectly acceptable limp. Always be the aggressor. Helps with assigning hand ranges to other players
I think you said opponent was pretty tight? so i would have made it 240-300 preflop from the button, then if he re raised me to like 900 and hes been tight id assume he has 8s crushed and i dont believe im getting proper odds to continue with the hand so id fold
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