Evaluate my play.
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This hand occurred in a $5 SNG last night. Blinds are 160/320. We're down to four players. I'm second in chips with around 2000.
I pick up QQ UTG and raise to 640.
Button (chip leader) calls. The blinds fold.
The flop come J 9 6, two suits.
I bet out 320, and he cold calls.
The turn is Q.
I bet out 640, and he cold calls again. (I'm thinking he has a straight)
The river is 10.
I bet out my last 330, and he calls.
He has K8off for a straight.
I bust out of the money. Is there anything else different I could've done?
I feel that this guy is an idiot for calling me with king high to the river.
I pick up QQ UTG and raise to 640.
Button (chip leader) calls. The blinds fold.
The flop come J 9 6, two suits.
I bet out 320, and he cold calls.
The turn is Q.
I bet out 640, and he cold calls again. (I'm thinking he has a straight)
The river is 10.
I bet out my last 330, and he calls.
He has K8off for a straight.
I bust out of the money. Is there anything else different I could've done?
I feel that this guy is an idiot for calling me with king high to the river.
Comments
THE RULE.
When you have less than 10 times the big blind, push all in on the hand you will play.
You will gain BB+SB+Antes(if any), which add up alot at that point.
In your example. You risk 2000 to gain 480 Tchips, or a gain of 23% of your stack. Do this a few times and you can double almost on that alone.
The few times you runn into a solid hand. AA,KK,AK your a dog but not by much. Your even better than AKs. So don't try to be funny let the cards fall were they may.
Would this player call 2000 with K8os????
Also, is the board 3 (or more) suited on the river?
If this was no-limit:
Instead of raising the minimum pre-flop, I favour either limping in, or raising bigger. Minimum raises give away too much information to your opponents for not enough of their chips. I'd favour raising, since I'd probably be stealing a lot pre-flop anyway in your situation. I'm sure going to be playing my legit hands strongly too.
I'd move the rest in on the flop. My opponent may be willing to make a "pot-committed" or "who cares, I'm on a big stack" bad call here.
ScottyZ
As for pushing all-in preflop, this isn't a bad idea. You have a mountain of chips on your left, so you have to be betting *his* stack, not yours, if that makes any sense. A bet that may seem large to you and to your stack may be a drop in the bucket to the big stack. An all-in bet usually gets a big stack to fold most hands, particularly hands like these K8o.
His play after the flop is terrible, unless he picked up some kind of flush draw? Your play is good, but I definitely would have moved in on the flop with that kind of board.
160/320? Crazy blind increments!
Since we're on the topic of bad play, maybe this will make you feel a bit better...
30/60 Stars limit game.
Folded to me in MP with 66 and I raise. Button calls, BB calls.
Flop: K 6 3 rainbow. Check, I bet, and both call.
Turn: 2 completes rainbow. Check check, button bets, BB calls, I checkraise, button 3-bets, BB calls, I cap, both call.
River: 4.
BB bets, we both call. BB shows 52o for rivered straight, and takes it down. I checked the hand history, and the button had AKo.
Regards,
all_aces
I bet my last 330 just to get more from him if he didn't have me beat. It would've been pointless to check and let him put me all-in, and I fold a set. Even if I did fold, I would only have enough for the BB next hand.
It was a SNG!!!! Not $160/$320. LOL
If you do happen to play in a 160/320 cash game, let me know! I like watching high-stakes games...
You can still check the river leaving the possibility of him checking behind you. However, you *call* if he bets the river, not fold. As I mentioned, I think getting an extra 330 when you're good isn't quite as valuable as the possibility of him checking an 8.
To be honest, I expected you to say it was a limit tournament based on the action. Finding out that it was no-limit, I think you played it too slowly not getting all of your chips in on the flop (or earlier).
ScottyZ