Questionable play?

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05-16-2006, 07:43 AM
zaaaaaak

Questionable play?

This guy is on tilt and has pushed for his stack preflop the last 6 hands. I settled on a hand range of A9+, 99+, KQ. I pick up A10 and once again he's all in. With only one limper behind me, I push to isolate and to my surprise, the limper calls as well. What's going on here? Should I have picked a better spot?

***** Hand History for Game 4283284398 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, May 16, 07:26:38 ET 2006
Table Table 107943 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: booties_x ( $22.95 )
Seat 6: zaaaaaak ( $27.10 )
Seat 1: TheAdvent ( $26.15 )
Seat 5: luckybulle ( $40.10 )
Seat 4: HOLYCALL ( $14.18 )
Seat 2: pbm107 ( $18.80 )
HOLYCALL posts small blind [$0.10].
zaaaaaak posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to zaaaaaak [ Ad Ts ]
TheAdvent folds.
pbm107 folds.
booties_x calls [$0.25].
>You have options at Table 107971 (No DP) Table!.
HOLYCALL is all-In [$14.08]
zaaaaaak is all-In [$26.85]
booties_x is all-In [$22.70]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, 4d, As ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Td ]
HOLYCALL shows [ Jh, Kd ] high card ace.
zaaaaaak shows [ Ad, Ts ] two pairs, aces and tens.
booties_x doesn't show [ Ah, Jc ] a pair of aces.
zaaaaaak wins $4.15 from side pot #2 with two pairs, aces and tens.
zaaaaaak wins $17.54 from side pot #1 with two pairs, aces and tens.
zaaaaaak wins $40.54 from the main pot with two pairs, aces and tens.
05-16-2006, 09:47 AM
jackvance

You lucked out of this one, but you got trapped there. I personally would indeed wait for a better spot. Unless I had already made a ton of money that day, then I'll gambool. :)
05-16-2006, 10:14 AM
r8ed

That guy had no business calling your push preflop with AJ. However, this is a sitcky situation because that guy could be trapping with a better hand than AJ because he knows the shorstack will push and he wants dead money. If you know it's heads up, AT is not a bad hand to take this guy down with.
05-16-2006, 10:45 AM
Silly String

Since AJ guy is acting before the idiot, he limps to incite the usual preflop push. He is afraid if he raises, the preflop pusher will fold out marginal hands. I do the same thing when acting in front of an auto-pusher.
His call of your hand is marginal, but could be considered correct, because of the wide range you will call a push with after 6 straight attempts. I would fold AJ in that situation, but he is a coinflip with most PP's the avg. player could call the idiot's push with.
I'm not saying he didn't make a mistake generally, but you made one too. You should tighten your calling range a little when your preflop decision doesn't close the action.
05-16-2006, 11:05 AM
johnny_fish

Quote:

This guy is on tilt and has pushed for his stack preflop the last 6 hands. I settled on a hand range of A9+, 99+, KQ.

Why do you assume such a tight range? His range is probably any 2 if he pushed the last 6.
05-16-2006, 11:55 AM
dalecooper

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnny_fish

Quote:

This guy is on tilt and has pushed for his stack preflop the last 6 hands. I settled on a hand range of A9+, 99+, KQ.

Why do you assume such a tight range? His range is probably any 2 if he pushed the last 6.

I think he meant that was his range for calling the push.
05-16-2006, 03:20 PM
aislephive

I think it's fine.