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Was this a good play given my read? Or should I have just gotten away?

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  1. ImoOnTilt ImoOnTilt is offline

    La Jolla, CA
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    Sep 5th, 2008 (9/5/2008 10:17pm)

    <HTML>Seat 3 has been very loose and aggressive. I've seen him call many raises pre-flop and re-raise post-flop frequently. It is early on in the tournament with blinds at 25/50 and I have around 70 BB. My image is tight, I haven't played many pots and have showed down solid holdings.

    Seat 1: Twisler23(3879 in chips)
    Seat 2: Beefarm (4821 in chips)
    Seat 3: %Outs&Odds% (7680 in chips)
    Seat 4: rioruss (3330 in chips)
    Seat 5: teisha111 (2835 in chips)
    Seat 6: Stef Schouw (3776 in chips)
    Seat 7: Darky Vador (1724 in chips) is sitting out
    Seat 8: ImoOnTilt (3571 in chips)
    Seat 9: wbrazil (1909 in chips)
    Stef Schouw: posts small blind 25
    Darky Vador: posts big blind 50
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to ImoOnTilt [Jh Th]
    ImoOnTilt: raises 100 to 150
     wbrazil: folds
    Twisler23: folds
    Beefarm: folds
    %Outs&Odds%: calls 150
     All others fold

    Ok, deep-stacked aggressive guy flat-calls me so I put him on a very wide range and take the flop heads up.

    *** FLOP *** [3h 5h Ac]
    Not a terrible flop for me, I pick up a flush draw and UTG I figure to make a simple continuation bet
    ImoOnTilt: bets 200
     %Outs&Odds%: raises 800 to 1000

    This re-raise shocked me. First of all, it was too big to be a value re-raise for if he hit a set of 33 or 55. This bet screamed I'm weak, but I want this pot. I think about it for awhile and figure aggressive guy with this line looks weak. I figure to have outs if he did wake up with a AK or even JJ, QQ, TT. However my goal with this play was to create fold equity, figuring I'd only get called by AK or a set, neither of which really made sense from his line.

    ImoOnTilt: raises 2421 to 3421 and is all-in
    %Outs&Odds%: calls 2421
    *** TURN *** [3h 5h Ac] [7s]
    *** RIVER *** [3h 5h Ac 7s] [2d]
    *** SHOW DOWN ***
    ImoOnTilt: shows [Jh Th] (high card Ace)
    %Outs&Odds%: shows [6h Kh] (high card Ace - King kicker)
    %Outs&Odds% collected 7217 from pot

    Thoughts? </HTML>
  2. stevel1017 stevel1017 is offline

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    Sep 5th, 2008 (9/5/2008 10:24pm) in reply to ImoOnTilt

    I think it's too early for a play like this, the chips you can lose (espec against a loose player who wont fold) are worth more than the chips you can win this early on
    my $.02
  3. AceStack AceStack is offline

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    Sep 6th, 2008 (9/6/2008 1:45am) in reply to ImoOnTilt

    preflop is fine...on the flop fire out 200 and fold to the reraise. It's not worth it to get it allin with a flush draw at this point. Your not super short and even though a reraise to 1k may look weak to you.....you are essentially not beating any hand that calls your push. When villian reraises to 1k he's saying I'm not folding this hand to your push so if you do decide to push here you're basicaly getting it allin w/a flush draw, and if you're ok with that than cool. Longterm though getting it allin with a flush draw is -ev and he made it impossible to chase with his large reraise. Try not to risk your whole stack on flush draws if possible is my advice.
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