AKProdigy

You have 9 hearts, 3 7's (excluding 7h), and I'll give you 1.5 T's (if you confident those outs are good, subject to a redraw I subtracted half the outs)... 13.5 x 2 outs... 27 / 47 > 50%. You COULD semibluff here (if called, even if your T's are no good, your about 50 50), but its fine to just flat call and wait to see if you hit. I'm fine with either. I raise to about 200 - 250 preflop with a limper behind. Otherwise standard.

Don't post results. I don't mind the minraise on the flop, but I don't read it as strength as I've seen it used exactly as you've used it numerous times (a "do you have a hand?" bluff). I think the question on the turn is what range of hands does he have that he flat-calls the flop with and folds the turn getting 3:1? He likely doesn't have a drawing hand. He might not have a strong hand (set, TPTK) but I don't think you have nearly as much fold equity as you think you have though. I think I put his range after the flop at exactly 99+, AQ+. If you think he wouldn't hesitate on the flop with a

No reads on villain (1 rotation, seen him play one hand only), FT.. payouts 40, 30, 20, 10PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (7 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FCP)Button (t5995)Hero (t2850)BB (t4330)UTG (t2645)MP1 (t3585)MP2 (t2105)CO (t5490)Preflop: Hero is SB with 7 , A . 5 folds, Hero raises to t600, BB calls t400.Flop: (t1200) 2 , 7 , J (2 players)Hero bets t800, BB raises to t3730, Hero ?2-Part Question: 1) Do you push the flop instead? 2) Do we autocall the reraise?I was on auto-pilot (aka playing non-thinking poker) when th

Some of these hero calls are made by donk calling stations, no doubt. However, I'm inclined to think that players might just be getting smarter, and with appropriate odds on the river (if your getting 2:1 to make a call, and theres a significant chance that the villain is bluffing a missed draw), these hero calls may just be +EV. Some people may take this to the extreme, but I feel that from personal experience in microlimit cash games, if a river bet looks fishy and there's numerous hands in his range that may constitute a complete bluff, its often correct to call. I think we've seen so many

Push. Your way ahead of any draws hes semibluffing with, and really your only significantly behind to a hand like 66 or 55 (flopped set), and even then you have 9 outs twice - 2 for FH considerations (16/ 45)... ~needing 3.2:2 to call. Thats WORST case scenario. I'd say your around or slightly better than 50% against his complete range. Call.

I agree, c/c is the best action on the river here. As played, its close... but I call the raise. Your getting 4:1, I think this is a bluff enough to advocate calling.

If your read on him is that he's a calling station, I'm looking to extract maximum value out of trips. There are hands that beat us, but I think we're more likely ahead of his range (both pre-river-raise and calling ranges) to put out a sizable raise. I raise to about $10 trying to extract value out of trips as well as possibly an ace. If he has you beat, so be it, but I'm going broke here getting my money into the pot.(This is all assuming that he's a donktastic calling station of course)

I agree. Small sample no doubt, but I ran about 75% ROI through 60 1.75's and 80% ROI** 3 tabling the 3.25 /45's through a sample of 105. I switched over to cash games for a bit, but I'm back playing the 6.50 /18's, which are fairly beatable, just a bit less soft than the microlimit sng's. Point being: the donk-limit turbos are a very nice bankroll booster when your starting up, especially since you can get comfortable multitabling 3 - 4 SNG's at a time and not lose much in terms of ROI.Edit: Changed ROI, actually was a typo. Seemed wrong when I typed it out, but I double checked it. My PT see

Easy shove as mentioned. By the way just curious: I thought you moved up to 5 dollar STTs? The 1.75's are a pretty fast way of building a bankroll from under 100 dollars (esp if you multitable them) but was wondering why you moved down, esp if you have the BR to support higher buyins.

Not exactly, but yeah pretty much.

wtf. lol

He thought you had 7sTs obv.

Shovel. If CL's range is fairly loose, I'll take a 70-30 against his range in order to double up and get myself in position for a dominating stack at the final table. There's no way we pass up this spot. In addition, your also probably ahead of MP's range, so if he calls, worst case scenario is he takes down the pot IF cl calls (if mp calls, and CL wins the pot, you bust out 18th making the money). If he folds getting 4:1, there's additional dead money in the pot. Get it in there.

Agreed. As played, if villain is cbetting anything here, i repop to about 70 and try and push villain out of this hand. If you get shoved into, I guess its a question of what range villain would do this with. If its 88/99+ (or if you think villain might re-raise bluff you with overcards), its close, but I'd probably call. Flat calling with jacks really disguises your hand, so villain might be tempted to overplay his hand not putting you on something like JJ. The fact that the donkey is also in this hand probably reinforces raising the flop.

Honestly, in these things you should be exploiting bubble play against those who care about cashing and aiming for a top3 finish. I'm not saying the cash bubble isn't important, but if you have an edge on the bubble, usually its a bad idea to play passively in hopes of squeaking into the money unless ur desperately shortstacked.

Not sure if you considered this but if the bigstack won the hand, I'd still go out in 2nd place. I think that's one of the major reasons to advocate a call in this situation (not saying I think calling is correct, just that maybe this wasn't considered).

Un-include all blind levels that took place in the rebuy period. Hope that helps.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t800 (3 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FCP)Button (t5120)SB (t12405)Hero (t9475)Preflop: Hero is BB with T , T . Button raises to t5070, SB raises to t9340, Hero ?We've been 3-handed for about 10 - 12 hands now. Most of the hands have gone raise preflop, fold, fold. I can't remember a hand that actually saw a flop. SB is a all in or fold preflop player for the most part, fairly tight. Button is a bit more passive, but not loose by any means. VPIPs are at about 20% for SB, and 30 - 35% for Button (I didn

I would normally raise the flop, but you open yourself up to getting reraised on a semibluff which could also potentially be a hand that dominates you (aka your likely to be folding the best hand at that point). I call the flop, with the intent of betting out/calling a turn if a non-diamond hits. I'd probably call down a non-diamond river as well. Hate these kind of spots though. If you win the pot, youre a good player. If you lose the pot, youre a calling station.

I don't mind the check behind either. You are more likely good here, but getting check-raised on the river would suck.

gl guys. tid one time!

Any reads? It's a tough spot mainly because of the BB's chip stack. If you 3-bet, your almost committed to calling his all in, but his chip stack is still large enough to place a dent in yours if you push. Ugh... I probably flat call and re-evaluate on the turn (and hate it).

Let me put it this way: the small reraise preflop sets alarm bells ringing in my head, esp since he has a history of min-raising his big hands. I guess it really depends on how much of a textbook tourney player you are. I like to mix up my play quite a bit when I have chips to play with and try and stack big hands. I guess my real question is do you call or raise here? I guess an argument could be for folding given the information I have provided, but I feel that:1) I'm getting a good price on the flop to see a turn card2) If he does have a big hand as I suspect, I have implied odds if I ca

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FCP)MP1 (t4850)Hero (t15575)MP3 (t10935)CO (t12238)Button (t17661)SB (t22748)BB (t8637)UTG (t4360)UTG+1 (t1379)Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 8 , J . 2 folds, MP1 calls t200, Hero raises to t775, 1 fold, CO raises to t1350, 3 folds, MP1 folds, Hero calls t575.Flop: (t3200) 5 , 2 , J (2 players)Hero checks, CO bets t1000, Hero ?24/14 after about 25 hands. Saw him minraise AA preflop with 1 limper behind in MP, and bet out the flop and turn fairly strong. Whats your pla