Live Tourney Flop Play
Blinds are 500/1000 I'm sitting at 20k(About 7th out of 20) Button is sitting at 30k.Top 8 get paid.
Me:Im sitting to the right of the button with JJ and raise to 3000.
Button:He has been a conservative player and hadn't played in a lot of hands lately.Played him earlier in a different tourney and he was playing the same way. Anyways he calls the 3000 and the Blinds Fold.
FLOP comes 9JK of spades.
Me: I bet 2500
Button: Re raises to 9000
Me:Fold
I ended up winning this tournament but I still think I made the wrong decision on that hand.
What do you guys think?
Me:Im sitting to the right of the button with JJ and raise to 3000.
Button:He has been a conservative player and hadn't played in a lot of hands lately.Played him earlier in a different tourney and he was playing the same way. Anyways he calls the 3000 and the Blinds Fold.
FLOP comes 9JK of spades.
Me: I bet 2500
Button: Re raises to 9000
Me:Fold
I ended up winning this tournament but I still think I made the wrong decision on that hand.
What do you guys think?
Comments
KK is very unlikely since he would probably 3 bet with it.. Also i don't think he would raise with nuts QT since he wouldn't want you to fold...
I agree that I should have pushed all-in when he re-raised me.
EDIT: Winning the tournament helped keep this hand off my mind for a while. If I would have lost, I would have been going OCD over this hand lol.
But hey, seems like it worked out for you - cheap lessons are great!
Like you said its a good cheap lesson!
You should also never, ever fold here.
Not disagreeing, but may i know the reasoning behind not ever jamming here?
Because live poker, especially small home games have way different dynamics than online.
1) Not as many people are calling perceived unex shove ranges live. You jam 20 BB here and nobody calls you but dominating hands. Bad live players will fold AQ in this spot where they snap you off online.
2) Were not looking for a quick way out. We're looking to get money in. Minraising allows somebody to spaz out. Shoving eliminates the only way we have for someone to put it in worse.
3) 20BB in live poker is an absolute SHIT TON of chips. In these MTT where the average FT stack is 10-12BB you often have FE with even 6-7BB.
Me personally I do both depending on my image and the stack sizes of players after me..
Thank you for the insight though, i really need to adjust while playing live and i'm still terrible online anyway :P
I think its optimistic to think a 20bb shove gets called by 44+ or A10, and the small chance of it happening is trumped by the 3 points Wetts made above.
Youre ranges are spot on for online play. You will get these calls (more often than live).
Im not saying you'll get 0% of this range calling live, but its not far over that, and certainly not from the conservative villain as described in the OP.
Thank you wetts, I respect your game a lot...
cheers
That's your first mistake...well second after folding a flopped set with 20bb
I don't fold flopped sets Stick to omaha GTA
It mighta been Colin on that one..