How differently could have I played this?

Metro

180 Person SNG - 15 players remain - I lost 1/3 of my stack on this hand - could have I done anything else?


PokerStars Game #8299855249: Tournament #42315235, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2007/02/05 - 21:14:27 (ET)
Table '42315235 17' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 2: r00ts M (28414 in chips)
Seat 3: TEDDY STD (24667 in chips)
Seat 4: Mike_AAA (6965 in chips)
Seat 5: Paycheck4me (14953 in chips)
Seat 6: ecassity (10560 in chips)
Seat 7: MetroTNORTH (30764 in chips)
Seat 8: bunnybuster (7377 in chips)
Seat 9: nc1976 (4285 in chips)
r00ts M: posts the ante 50
TEDDY STD: posts the ante 50
Mike_AAA: posts the ante 50
Paycheck4me: posts the ante 50
ecassity: posts the ante 50
MetroTNORTH: posts the ante 50
bunnybuster: posts the ante 50
nc1976: posts the ante 50
r00ts M: posts small blind 400
TEDDY STD: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MetroTNORTH [Jh Jd]
Mike_AAA: folds
Paycheck4me: folds
ecassity: raises 1600 to 2400
MetroTNORTH: raises 4000 to 6400
bunnybuster: folds
nc1976: folds
r00ts M: calls 6000
TEDDY STD: folds
ecassity: raises 4110 to 10510 and is all-in
MetroTNORTH: calls 4110
r00ts M: raises 17854 to 28364 and is all-in
MetroTNORTH: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ah 7h Ac]
*** TURN *** [Ah 7h Ac] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [Ah 7h Ac Th] [Qc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
r00ts M: shows [Ks Kc] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
ecassity: shows [Ad Js] (three of a kind, Aces)
ecassity collected 32730 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 32730 | Rake 0
Board [Ah 7h Ac Th Qc]
Seat 2: r00ts M (small blind) showed [Ks Kc] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 3: TEDDY STD (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Mike_AAA folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Paycheck4me folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ecassity showed [Ad Js] and won (32730) with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 7: MetroTNORTH folded before Flop
Seat 8: bunnybuster folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: nc1976 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Metro

I like my re-raise. But I have to wonder about simply calling the 4K. I think I knew the guy behind me would go over top. But I couldnt fold 4k into that pot.

Correct? Any suggestions would be great.

westside8

Tough one. Any reads on any of the players? Hard to not call with 4000 to call into that pot, but the guy that cold call a raise and a re-raise worries me. Read on the players would help, but I don't think theres a way really to lose less. If anything you could've lost more by pushing over top.

Metro

The player that cold called was decent. I was really surprised to see him just call. With that much in the pot - I figured my re-raise would trigger him to re-raise with QQ-AA.

With his cold call - I though he may think I was making a move and he could want to see a flop with AK.

I obviously had 3 options - re-raise all-in to isolate. Fold or Call. The 4k wasnt going to kill me considering the blinds and my stack.

I opted to call - hoping for a cold call behind me.

I am in fact glad he re-raised - I would have hated to get a 10high flop and act first with that big of a pot out there.

Metro

Well ended up finishing 4th. Which is ok, but mostly it blows.

moose

2 things come to mind:
if you were willing to go allin with the first guy, why not put him allin with your initial raise?
if you were afraid of the players yet to act behind you, if you had raised another 60 in chips, roots would have had to reraise right away, otherwise the first guy didn't have enough chips left to make a legal raise. Then you at least might have seen the flop.

pkrfce9

moose wrote: »

if you were afraid of the players yet to act behind you, if you had raised another 60 in chips, roots would have had to reraise right away, otherwise the first guy didn't have enough chips left to make a legal raise. Then you at least might have seen the flop.

that's the key point. 2 gold stars, rob.

Metro

Thanks Rob - that was exactly the type of feed back I was looking for. I didnt even consider taking away the option to make a legal raise.

Thanks again.