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To flip or not to flip....
lainie1072
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June 13, 2010 - 8:40 pm
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I feel like a huge leak in my game is that I tend to find myself in positions where I get like 40+BBs all in at the middle of tournies where I am close to certain that I am flipping for huge stacks. 

For example, last night this situation arises.  Now some background…  The villain here had shown down an overshove like this 3 times:  66, JJ, and AK.  However, just the last orbit, I opened K10s, he 2.5 reraised me, and I 4 bet shoved him into a fold with like 29 bigs.  My read was he felt like a made hand (AK may feel to be, in his opinion, “made”) was just to shove, a 3 bet signaled weakness.  We are well past the bubble.

 

My image should be kinda tight, even though I shipped like 4 times the last 30 minutes since the bubble, but they were when I was massive shorty with like 15BBs and had limpers/ open shoved.  Hadn’t shown down junk or even seen a flop when I raised.  Since then, I double with QQ when I called an 18BB shove of AQ and I held. 

 

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PokerStars Game #45431480475: Tournament #315010776, $5.00+$0.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (400/800) - 2010/06/12 21:08:46 ET
Table '315010776 37' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: lainie1072 (23852 in chips) 
Seat 2: Mindy96 (13846 in chips) 
Seat 3: Eljuni (45534 in chips) 
Seat 4: ridinghood07 (27197 in chips) 
Seat 5: aacrusher87 (21968 in chips) 
Seat 6: getmaker2203 (10369 in chips) 
lainie1072: posts the ante 75
Mindy96: posts the ante 75
Eljuni: posts the ante 75
ridinghood07: posts the ante 75
aacrusher87: posts the ante 75
getmaker2203: posts the ante 75
ridinghood07: posts small blind 400
aacrusher87: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to lainie1072 [Ac Qd]
getmaker2203: folds 
lainie1072: raises 1088 to 1888
Mindy96: folds 
Eljuni: raises 43571 to 45459 and is all-in
ridinghood07: folds 
aacrusher87: folds 
lainie1072: ???

Questions:

1.  In the future, if my reads tell me that this hand is like 90% a flip, is this a standard call?
2.  At what stack size (how many bigs) does this call become standard regardless of reads (imagine I had just been put at this table)?
3.  At what BB level are we comfortable taking a flip, even though we never KNOW we are flipping, if a player has his card face-up?
4.  Do you call here?
JDOG1645
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June 13, 2010 - 11:39 pm
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I think based on your reads of what you said he has over shoved with in the past your are either flipping or behind. By his shoving he took away our chance to have FE. You still have 27 bigs and I think its too much for us to put in the middle at this point. I think if you know this is a flip and you have as many big blinds as you have why do you want to gamble if you know your better than most at the table?  I personally under 20 bigs would ship here.  However, in this case I fold.

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