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Step 3 sat to PCA, whats the best play?

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  1. jcg2005 jcg2005 is offline

    Antioch, CA
    United States

    Posts: 11
    Joined: Mar 07

    Oct 30th, 2007 (10/30/2007 10:57pm)

    First HH post in PD, hope this is acceptable.

    Villian in this hand is MrCasino. playing 23/13/3 over 90 hands in my DB, previous sessions included.

    He is the biggest winner @ the tbl (~23k profit on PS). I considered not playing when i saw he was registered, but i didnt wanna be a little bitch so here we are.

    We have played in a step 2 together 2 days ago, although i am not sure how much attention he is putting in to these since he asked for the table to join his step 4.

    I know from watching a few of the step 5 and 6s is that casino is a regular in them. I on the other hand am playing way over my head.

    Onto the hand, 3rd thru 5th replays step 3 and the top 2 advance to step 4.

    pokerstars Tournament, Big Blind is t200 (6 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

    UTG (t1355)
    UTG+1 (t1755)
    CO (t1970)
    Button (t1280)
    SB (t2960)
    Hero (t4180)

    Preflop: Hero is in BB with 5 A
    UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB calls t100, Hero checks

    Flop: (t400) 7 6 J (2 players)
    SB checks, Hero bets t300, SB raises to t1000

    Do i have enough equity to shove this? Is it worth the risk in this structure? Is it the proper way to play since 3rd -5th are essentially a freeroll? What range do u put him on?

    Should i fold and avoid confrontation with another big stack who is clearly better than i am? This is the reason i didnt raise preflop also.

    Thanks for ur help.
     
  2. rossi094 rossi094 is offline

    Minneapolis, MN
    United States

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    Oct 30th, 2007 (10/30/2007 11:06pm) in reply to jcg2005

    wow. Tough spot. With his stack, and your stack, he has shown ALOT of strength. I think im folding here because with your stack, you can fold here and beat up the rest of the table with standard sng bubble play.
  3. Tsupa Tsupa is offline

    Mustang, OK
    United States

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    Oct 30th, 2007 (10/30/2007 11:13pm) in reply to jcg2005

    The nit in me says fold. But the donkey in me says put this clown to the test for all of his chips (you have him covered) and you still have plenty of outs if he calls.
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