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A9 in SB to button raise - linecheck

BeMyATMplz

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July 23, 2011 - 5:39 am

Hi everyone,I'd like to know if I played this hand good or bad.

First,here's the hand:

PokerStars Game #64925599479: Tournament #414939442, $5.00+$0.50 USD Hold'em No Limit – Level X (125/250) – 2011/07/22 17:30:21 ET
Table '414939442 58' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: f@vour!te (6910 in chips)
Seat 2: bertvanoigen (11398 in chips)
Seat 3: BeMyATMplz (12822 in chips)
Seat 4: HereT0staY (8822 in chips)
Seat 5: beem102 (9446 in chips)
Seat 6: henk noot (3100 in chips)
Seat 7: Thio1980 (26717 in chips)
Seat 8: karol771 (24196 in chips)
f@vour!te: posts the ante 30
bertvanoigen: posts the ante 30
BeMyATMplz: posts the ante 30
HereT0staY: posts the ante 30
beem102: posts the ante 30
henk noot: posts the ante 30
Thio1980: posts the ante 30
karol771: posts the ante 30
BeMyATMplz: posts small blind 125
HereT0staY: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BeMyATMplz [9c Ad]
beem102: folds
henk noot: folds
Thio1980: folds
karol771: folds
f@vour!te: folds
bertvanoigen: raises 500 to 750
BeMyATMplz: raises 1300 to 2050
HereT0staY: folds
bertvanoigen: calls 1300
*** FLOP *** [9d 8h 5d]
BeMyATMplz: bets 2800
bertvanoigen: calls 2800
*** TURN *** [9d 8h 5d] [5s]
BeMyATMplz: bets 7942 and is all-in

The button opener was an aggressive but reasonable player.

I posted the hand in a chat of MTT/SNG players I'm in. Some of the players agreed with my play,my coach/staker however said this:

[01:29:47] xxxxx: A9 hand dont like, its not a good 3bet hand as its often dominated
[01:30:41] Kevin: But isnt his button opening range very wide @ A9?
[01:31:48] xxxxx: possible but he 3*d and A9 is difficult post flop too, i would prefer even having 56s

Would you agree with him? Or would you play a similar line to what I did?

Generally I agree A9 is not a great 3 bet hand,however I don't see how the majorty of his opening range dominates me,button can open super wide here.

Sure looking at my stacksize,I could also sit on it for a bit and wait for a spot with a better hand obv,but I dont really like getting blinded down and want to build my stack,and usually use many of such spots to 3-bet (with the intention of restealing).

Thanks for any comments in advance 🙂

FkCoolers

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July 23, 2011 - 11:18 am

I think it's one of those hands/spots where it's a 3bet or fold preflop. It doesn't flop very well so it's not really a good hand to flat but you are ahead of the standard button open range and you're plenty deep enough to 3 bet. Plus, we get to play with the initiative and so a lot of times we will get a flop where a c-bet is good enough to take it down.

The board texture is kind of awkward in this 3 bet pot after he calls your c-bet. I don't feel like he's calling as a float and only better hands are calling your turn shove.

hawkeyeK9

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July 24, 2011 - 5:37 pm

I am folding pre. I don't like 3betting A9 from the blinds to a button opener for reasons already stated; does not flop well, playing oop, and you button can easily get you off the hand. This is a smaller buy-in and the button is gonna be too tempted to call your 3bet and play position against you. You did not give us any reads, I guess I might do it if he folds to 3bets 100% of the time but I doubt that is the case. Fold pre.

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