very strange SNG first hand
On Pacific, so I can't give you a nice hand history. First hand I have the button and I get KK. Strange enough. Blinds 10/20. Player in MP min-raises. Next player smooth calls. I raise to 140. Both players call.
Flop comes down 6h js 3c. MP checks. MP+1 bets 80. I min-raise. MP wakes up and goes all in for the remaining 640. MP+1 folds. I figure wtf, there are a lot of hands that would make that move, many of which beat me anyway... but I call. Turn comes 9h. River comes 8d.
Any guesses what he went all-in with?
Flop comes down 6h js 3c. MP checks. MP+1 bets 80. I min-raise. MP wakes up and goes all in for the remaining 640. MP+1 folds. I figure wtf, there are a lot of hands that would make that move, many of which beat me anyway... but I call. Turn comes 9h. River comes 8d.
Any guesses what he went all-in with?
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ScottyZ
No, that wasn't the hand.
Right ok then. Lets say.............. 89?
Please discuss. I'm still chuckling about it.
Pre-flop I was about a 78% favourite.
On the flop I was about a 90% favourite.
On the turn I was about a 89% favourite.
On the river, I missed my 39 outer.
I'm trying to look at this through his gin-soaked eyes to understand what he was thinking.
Pre-flop he was first one in but with a min-raise, he won't chase many out in the first hand. Let's say he was building the pot in case he hit the flop hard. When I re-raised him, he may have been thinking I was making a play or maybe thought he could take it away from me on the flop. Of course, there was another player to worry about.
I assume he checked the flop, hoping someone would toss a few chips in that could add to his stack with a big raise. Facing a bet and a re-raise perhaps he figured the only way to win the hand (seeing as he had absolutely nothing
Honestly, I thought there was a chance he could have AA or JJ (although I might have expected a re-raise in this case), maybe 66 fits the bill (I'm not sure about the min-raise and if someone would smooth call the re-raise with this) but potentially a lot of worse hands like AK, AJ, QQ. I accepted there was a risk I'd lose to a bigger hand since I already had more than 40% of my chips in the pot. God knows I've been beaten by bigger hands (two pair, a set) when I've had a overpair. Usually in these cases it's been 2 reasonably high cards (JQ, KQ, JT?), sometimes A-rag (A4s, A2s, etc) sometimes a mid-pair (66, 77, 88, 99). These are hands that might call a raise if they are already in the pot but aren't near strong enough to re-raise.
What are your thoughts on what hands are strong enough to call a re-raise and how strong they have to be on the flop to either push or call a raise all-in? From the perspective of the holder of an overpair, what sorts of hands to you expect to be facing when you get re-raised all-in?