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P-Train
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02-09-2010, 06:33 PM
Post subject: What's the move?
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: TN, USA
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It was the very first hand of the tournament, Hero has 88. Hero is MP1 with only an 8 handed table blinds are 50/100.
UTG+1 calls 100, UTG+2 raises to 500, Hero calls, SB and BB fold, UTG+1 calls 500.
Flop comes 5 6 7 Rainbow, UTG+1 checks, UTG+2 bets 1000, Hero calls 1000, UTG+1 All-In, UTG+2 calls, Hero ????
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Jason
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How much is the all-in or what was the starting stack sized? I'm not a tournament expert, but unless it's a horrible, short stacked type tournament and you've invested a large portion of your stack OR the blinds go up REALLY quick, I think folding is clearing the best option in that I think you're beat - straights, 2 pairs, sets, and overpairs clearly have you beat without reads imo. It's just a matter of figuring out if you have enough invested to make it worth a call to catch up with a str8 or possibly a set. And, like I said, it would have to be a bad structure to get the right odds to call I'd say.
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P-Train
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: TN, USA
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Jason, Thanks for the reply.
Starting chips were 3500, so I have almost half my chips in th epot already. This is a freeroll that the house puts $1 into a prize pool for each person that enters, blinds go up every 15 minutes.
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P-Train
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: TN, USA
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Jason, Thanks for the reply.
Starting chips were 3500, so I have almost half my chips in the pot already. This is a freeroll that the house puts $1 into a prize pool for each person that enters, blinds go up every 15 minutes.
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Jason
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Full House
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: TN
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Meh, well, with a LIVE freeroll and blinds that go up that fast, I probably WOULD call. Heck, you might even be good.
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- Jason
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baudib
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2005
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with the chance to triple up and the nonzero chance that you're actually ahead and/or have up to 10 outs to improve (basically flipping against someone with 76) against an overpair, I'd call it off.
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Playing big pots at small stakes.
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Fnord
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by P-Train
Starting chips were 3500.
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I think flatting pre is pretty bad. With that format you basically need to pick a spot and stick it in.
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idfk
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Two Pair
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Melboure, Australia
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The correct play here is to fold.
What we like to do in this sort of situation, especially first hand of a freeroll tournament is to commit as much chips as possible, and then fold so we can play a short stack for the next 2 orbits and get called by some mediocre hand who of course will outdraw you, only for you to come back here and tell everyone all about some donkfish lagtard calling your all in with A5o and flopping a book when you had KK.
Really though, in this situation 100% of the time you get your chips in. This is even more emphasized being a freeroll. Up until this point you have already committed 1500 chips out of your starting stack and IF you hand is good you are looking to be sitting with 10-12k by the end of it all. Even in tournaments that will cost you $100-300 to buy into, you are far better off to jam it here after how much you have put in and play a big stack from the get go than to pitch it and try to rebuild.
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