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  1. Lesclaypaul Lesclaypaul is offline

    Indianapolis, IN
    United States

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    Nov 3rd, 2009 (11/3/2009 12:57am)

    This is somewhat opposite than your normal hand advice question, but I am posting it because I want to learn from this loss to benefit my own gain. Also, this is not a bad beat post. I am posting this to hopefully gain some light into how players would have played this from my position and my opponents. It only contains me UTG and the BB so it is pretty easy to read even though I am not using a hand converter.

    About my image...I had moved to my table about 6 orbits ago and had made very few position raises on the button postflop to pick up pots but had shown zero hands at a showdown. My image is very tight but I had picked up 2 raising hands from UTG+2 and Utg+1 so I had raised the 2 hands previous to this hand.

    Full Tilt 10+1$ Knockout blinds 80/160 (Average stack is under 5,000) (190 players left with 90 paid)

    Me - UTG (8,000 chips) - QQ

    V - BB (5,500 chips) - ??

    P/F -

    I raise UTG with QQ to 400

    Folds to V in BB raises to 1,000

    I shove for 8,000 and V calls showing AKo

    No matter of the results and knowing my pretty tight image, would any of you have called a UTG raise then a R/R shove P/F with Ako? At best I am raising with AK UTG and the V is chopping or he is a little behind to a high pocket pair and must have been willing to gamble. It just doesn't seen +EV to gamble in this situation if you are at best chopping considering how tight I had been playing at this table. Maybe due to the short blind structure the villian was willing to gamble; but we both had above average stacks and he had to assume he was up against JJ QQ KK or AA. If this was a turbo tournament I would have probably gotten it in with AKo as the villian did..just wanted some thoughts from the pocketfives community on how you would have played it.
  2. allin4flush allin4flush is offline

    Portland, OR
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    Nov 3rd, 2009 (11/3/2009 10:50am) in reply to Lesclaypaul

    The villain had 5500? With an M of 23, I think calling with AK is about right. While it's not a short stack, it's right on the borderline. If he had 4200 or less, it'd be a lot more clear IMO.

    In the villain's spot, if I'd seen you raise three hands in a row, I'd be pretty happy to take my chances in this spot. People shift gears, and he'd probably figured you were on a little run and reraising light considering the SB v BB dynamic. I'd put your range on AT+, TT+...

    I always expect people to call my reraises with weaker hands than I would call with, because they often do. And I also expect all sorts of craziness in SB vs BB situations, because some people can get pretty wild there.
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