Cant stop thinking about this hand
I was in one of the Brantford tournies a few months back and this hand has been gnawing at my conscience.
I cant give exact particulars except to say with about 25 ppl remaining in the tourney my stack and the guy to my left stack were probably in the top 5 chip count at the time of this hand.
Im in the big blind. Blinds are 500-1000 iirc. He is UTG and limps, folded to the blinds-SB calls, i have J-9 and CHECK.
Flop is J A 3 with two clubs. SB checks i 2/3 pot bet. Old man to my left goes all in for like 30,000 or so. If i call im left with about 6000. (again iirc)
Im certain he is on a club draw. Im feeling good about my J being good. Despite my knowing im good at this point, i fold considering whats left considering our stack sizes. Im thinking i dont need to risk it here...or did i?
WHy do i see either play being kind of right, or kind of wrong?
As said in an earlier post i made to compusease, "as far as poker is concerned, im a great euchre player"
tips?
FWIW, i did money in the event, but still i need to know what the moneymakers here would have done.
I cant give exact particulars except to say with about 25 ppl remaining in the tourney my stack and the guy to my left stack were probably in the top 5 chip count at the time of this hand.
Im in the big blind. Blinds are 500-1000 iirc. He is UTG and limps, folded to the blinds-SB calls, i have J-9 and CHECK.
Flop is J A 3 with two clubs. SB checks i 2/3 pot bet. Old man to my left goes all in for like 30,000 or so. If i call im left with about 6000. (again iirc)
Im certain he is on a club draw. Im feeling good about my J being good. Despite my knowing im good at this point, i fold considering whats left considering our stack sizes. Im thinking i dont need to risk it here...or did i?
WHy do i see either play being kind of right, or kind of wrong?
As said in an earlier post i made to compusease, "as far as poker is concerned, im a great euchre player"
tips?
FWIW, i did money in the event, but still i need to know what the moneymakers here would have done.
Comments
The only hands you want him to be shipping is small flushdraws that only have 9 outs twice against you and since he probably doesn't have a lot of those in his range, it's a pretty easy fold. Even if he had those hands a bunch of the times though, the main thing is that we're either a small favorite when he has a draw, or a big underdog when he has a hand better than ours so it's extremely risky to get it in and almost never worth it without a stronger holding than we have
his preflop limping range
his flop jamming range
even if you think he has a club draw, what club hands do you have him on....
people think the better you are the tighter of a range you will be able to put your oppenent on....but here i think you would do better to expand his range to what you think is possible here and then take a look at what poker stove says...