Interesting hand
OK....I qualifed and played in Party's Super Thursday last night and have an interesting hand.
Anyways...1020 entrants.....made it through second break. 290 players left....150 get paid so were still aways from the money. Blinds are 300/600 Average stack is about 15,800.
Player 1 (21,000) raises UTG to 1800
Player 2 (16,000) UTGÂ +2 calls
Player 3 (6,000) Re-raises from the Cutoff all in for his 6K.
Player 1 thinks and calls.
Player 2 shoves all in
Player 1 folds.
Player 3 shows QQ.....Player 2 shows AK
Flop QQx and Player 3 triples up.
Player 1 folds JJ
Please give comments on each players play.
Anyways...1020 entrants.....made it through second break. 290 players left....150 get paid so were still aways from the money. Blinds are 300/600 Average stack is about 15,800.
Player 1 (21,000) raises UTG to 1800
Player 2 (16,000) UTGÂ +2 calls
Player 3 (6,000) Re-raises from the Cutoff all in for his 6K.
Player 1 thinks and calls.
Player 2 shoves all in
Player 1 folds.
Player 3 shows QQ.....Player 2 shows AK
Flop QQx and Player 3 triples up.
Player 1 folds JJ
Please give comments on each players play.
Comments
Mark
With the blinds at 300/600, and player 3's stack at 6k, that means his M value is only about 6.6 - not quite the danger zone, but much lower than I'm comfortable being, I like the push.
Player one just calls with JJ... hmm... he may have been hoping for a call from player 2 to just check it down and get rid of the short stack.
Player 2 re-raises with AK... I don't hate the play, but I don't love it either. With an all in in front, and a caller already, I may have even folded here with AK, since I would likely think one of them is on a pocket pair, and the other has Ax - negating one of my outs. In this case me read would be wrong.
Great fold by player 1, he's WAY behind, and only a coin flip for the other fella. He has 15k left back, no need to push it in at this point.
Was the reason for this being an "interesting hand" because of the quads?
Mark
I was player 2 and I guess your assessment of my push (don't love or hate it) is fair. I'm not sure. I almost thought of folding AK in this hand pre-flop with the raise coming from UTG.
Anyways....I hate the fold from player 1. Player 3 has shown big strength with a re-raise after a raise and a call. If you are willing to call him, then why fold to my re-raise. As it turns out...he would have been ahead of me and won a nice side pot.
I think I should have just called and taken my chance at hitting the flop. More than likely Player 1 would check the flop and if he bets I can just fold. In the end, I was losing the same amount of chips either way. Yuck, just won of those pivotal hands near the midway point of a big tourney.
One of those pivotal hands that I think Player 1's fold was excellent... sure he would have won your chips, but if I raise, there's a call, a re-raise, and then when I flat call a re-re-raise, I'm pretty sure that I'm beat as well. Mathematically it may be wrong, I"m not sure, but saying that "he would have won a pot from me" is pretty results-oriented.
Mark
Stupid. With a player to act behind you, you either push or fold. With JJ, I probably would have folded unless I had a great read on the other players. However, the flat-call screams weakness to me, so I've opened the door for player 2 to push me off with a big A or even a partial bluff with a small pair (to go HU against a big A with the dead money already in).
Hmm, exactly why player 1 shouldn't have flat-called. I like the push, since player 1 has shown weakness, so you're probably against a pair or a dominated A. If he calls we'll show a small profit on the sidepot, and if he folds, we're HU with dead money.
Good fold, but should have done it earlier and saved the 6k.
/g2