tourney situation
Dave et all - need some clarification.
Playing the $11 tourney last night on poker stars.
Blinds are 75/150. I got $2900. Player x has $12,000. I'm BB and he is three seats in front of me. All game he is trying to steal blinds and doing a pretty good job of it. Average stack at that point in the tourney is around $7,000. I get QQ. Everybody folds he raises $350.00. Button and sb fold. I raise him to 1,000 - he calls. Flop comes down at 8h, 9s and 10c. He bets $500 and I go all in and he calls. He has Ah-7d. The turn and river turn up nothing and I win with pair of Queens. He goes on rampage as to how huge he is over me and how he cannot beleive that I called him after the flop. He goes on to say that his straight potential and high card Ace should of kicked my queens. I say nothing but lol to him.
My thinking was that after the flop all I wnated to do was protect my hand. I was fairly confident that he did not have pocket aces of kings.
Did I make the right play? Does he have a point in all his complaining?
Playing the $11 tourney last night on poker stars.
Blinds are 75/150. I got $2900. Player x has $12,000. I'm BB and he is three seats in front of me. All game he is trying to steal blinds and doing a pretty good job of it. Average stack at that point in the tourney is around $7,000. I get QQ. Everybody folds he raises $350.00. Button and sb fold. I raise him to 1,000 - he calls. Flop comes down at 8h, 9s and 10c. He bets $500 and I go all in and he calls. He has Ah-7d. The turn and river turn up nothing and I win with pair of Queens. He goes on rampage as to how huge he is over me and how he cannot beleive that I called him after the flop. He goes on to say that his straight potential and high card Ace should of kicked my queens. I say nothing but lol to him.
My thinking was that after the flop all I wnated to do was protect my hand. I was fairly confident that he did not have pocket aces of kings.
Did I make the right play? Does he have a point in all his complaining?
Comments
Perhaps he has failed to notice that his "straight potential" is a gutshot.
You're a *big* favorite here. My guess is that you're about a 7-3 favorite. Now let me go check it.
Okay, it was more like 75-25. :cool:
http://twodimes.net/h/?z=520862
pokenum -h ah 7d - qd qc -- 8h 9s tc
Holdem Hi: 990 enumerated boards containing 9s Tc 8h
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
7d Ah 244 24.65 726 73.33 20 2.02 0.257
Qc Qd 726 73.33 244 24.65 20 2.02 0.743
I think so. I might play it more cautiously if the stacks were deeper, but as it was I think I would have moved all-in too.
ScottyZ
Regards,
all_aces
Blinds are 200/400. I am in 220th place out of a starting 1200. Top 99 are in the money. I am fairly short stacked with $2400. Average amount for everyone left in the tourney is around $10,000.
I get dealt JJ. I am on the button and everyone before me folds. I raise half my stack with $1200. The BB raises me antoher $1200 and forces me all in. I call and he has AA. Flop produses nothing and I am out. I cannot help you with the type of player this guy was as he just got moved to our table a couple of hands earlier.
Should I have folded at the raise he gave me to force me all in? My thinking was that being short stacked I did not have a choice but to go all in. Any more thoughts?
I'd prefer simply moving all-in pre-flop. All_aces will certainly get excited over the fact that you have exactly 6 times the big blind.
I'm moving all-in pre-flop any time I have 6*BB (or less) and I want to raise.
Calling the re-raise for your last 1,200 is easy when you have little or no information about your opponent. Actually, I would need *very* specific information (namely, knowing with a great deal of certainly that he does not hold AK, TT or worse) to fold here.
ScottyZ
10 X BB used to be 'all in or fold' for me. Now, I realize it's 6, not 10, which gives me some more leeway when I'm in the death throes of a tournament.
Regards,
all_aces