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  1. remember this?$1-5 stud high at Turning Stone.Villain: Voted for Eisenhower, chases with 3 straight or 3 flush, or just high cards until 6th (calling $5 bets all the way), annoyed at me.Me: Check-raising up a storm all night long (how unethical).3rd I raise with (10 J) 10 against his 7 showing to $5, he calls along with a few others. 4th, I bet $5, only he calls5th He shows (xx)7 x 7. I am still unimproved I bet before I notice his door card paired by accident. He says, fine, I check, you can bet. I bet out $5 planning on folding to a check-raise. He just calls.6th: He gets board trips: xx7
  2. Aseem, Chief, and I just came back from an insane, exhausting weekend in Turning Stone. This'll be the first of a few posts of poker hands from there ..There was a great $1-5 spread Stud Hi/Lo table going on last afternoon - all but Aseem and I, and one super-aggressive player at the table, were total calling stations who played every single hand. Every bet/raise was always the max of $5, on every street except maybe third. Antes were $1 (unfortunately), bring-in was $1.I declare that it's my last hand of the entire trip. I'm dealt (A 6)A . I'm last to act, everyone except Aseem limps (
  3. Thanks for the responses. I thought about it for a while and decided a set/two pair would definitely try a check raise here. His hand was pretty much what you guys guessed him for - J 9 . With 14 outs, he was 50/50 against my overpair, and my hand held up. Knowing he was that strong, I would've folded; why risk my tournament this early on a coin toss? But in general, I could see a lot of people playing A9 this way.Reverse the roles. Say you limped and called with J 9 :heart. I think I would probably check call a pot sized bet here. If the turn helps me, I've got a lot of ways of ext
  4. Not sure if there's a correct answer to this. Just wondering how you guys would play this kind of situation in general.First hand in a $5 NL HE SNG on PStars.You're dealt 10d-10c in MP1. Two limpers (no surprise), you raise to 100 to isolate hopefully.All fold to the two limpers, who call.Flop comes: 9c 2h 3h.UTG checks, UTG+1 unceremoniously pushes all in for his 1400 chips, exactly your stack.Call or fold?
  5. Nice read of the situation!I smooth called in this case - CO called behind me.River was the 9 . SB bet, I raised, CO called, SB three-bet, I capped. call, call.SB/Maniac turns over 4-5. CO turned over Q 10 .I'm pretty sure CO wouldve followed us to the river with a flush draw that's hard to fold against most likely trips/AK. SB probably would've helped me cap the turn, any day, since he capped the river anyway. Great point about playing here at different limits - at 3/6 I'd probably more likely be against A-X and find a fold on the turn; or the flush draw may have wisened up and folded
  6. SB is a maniac, bets/raise any pair. CO is tight so far. Let them hit their draws, or raise right now? PokerStars 0.25/0.50 Hold'em (10 handed) converterPreflop: Hero is BB with [Ah], [Ac]. UTG calls, 3 folds, UTG calls, MP2 calls, CO calls, SB calls.Flop: (10 SB) [5s], [Ad], [6s] (5 players)SB bets, UTG calls, MP2 folds, CO calls, SB calls.Turn: (9 BB) [5h] (4 players)SB bets, Hero (?)Perhaps being a bit results oriented in this hand - but raising wouldve been correct in this specific case with what my opponents held here. SB had 4-5, and CO had Q 10 . River was a 9 ; maniac SB and
  7. Agreeing with what everyone said so far about the smooth call to the huge raise on the turn - you are almost guaranteed to be up against a set of Kings, precisely (unless your opponent is a fool and didn't raise the flop with a set then). Assuming he has no redraws, you're at 42.5% to win against a set of kings: http://www.twodimes.net/poker/?g=o&b=8c+Jh...D%0AAc+Qc+4c+Td My issue is with the small bet on the flop - you have a fairly strong holding then, with a top gutshot straight draw and nut flush draw - why not bet stronger and push off the low two pairs/other gutshots/overpairs that
  8. Exactly... say you hold A K on a flop of K 10 9 after three-betting preflop. There's 3 or more players, and a player to your left bets; you should call on this flop and wait until a safe turn to raise and push off the gutshots/second pairs that can ruin your hand.
  9. I think you should have a good read on your pushing Opp before you call an all-in with a mid pocket pair here. You want to have better odds than just a coin flip at least some of the time with your 8 8. Is he the type that would push with Ace rag, or a low pocket pair? Would he slowplay (min-raise, smooth-call) a big pocket pair, or also push all in too? If you feel that there's at least a chance you're better than a coin flip, you should call here with still a respectable amount left if you lose. However, in general I would not call an all-in at this point with just 8 8. With 10 10 and a
  10. I'm wondering if I should've respected the big re-reraise on the turn. I figured both of my opponents were waiting for a safe turn to put all of their chips in, and if my low flush held up I'd be great position to win the entire $10 SNG. Thoughts?PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) converterSB (t1440)BB (t1440)UTG (t1440)UTG+1 (t1460)MP1 (t1180)Hero (t1470)MP3 (t1700)CO (t1620)Button (t1750)Preflop: Hero is MP2 with [7d], [6d]. 2 folds, MP1 calls t60, Hero calls t60, MP3 calls t60.I see a raised hand with a low suited connector. Flop: (t350) [Kd], [Jd], [Qd]
  11. To the guy who asked - my Opp graciously showed. He had pocket Kings, and made a great play that pushed me off Aces.To the other poster about how this would've played in a NL tournament - if the stacks were deep enough, as they are late in most skillful tournaments, UTG *may* not have pushed all in preflop with KK if reraised him preflop. He may have looked for a safe board to push post-flop, or alternately hoped to trap me post-flop if my reraise was still not a huge portion of my stack. As for which is the more "skillful" game, I'd give the old line that no-limit and limit are completely d
  12. I was thinking of it from my Opp's perspective, since I believe he was a smart player and has been observant all along. I three-bet preflop, which is his biggest piece of information. What would I three-bet with late in a tournament? AK, AQ, KQs (?), AA to 10 10. Why would he raise the turn with just ace high when he knows that all except one of the hands I would three-bet with in this situation (AK) he's behind? I think he would've just smooth called with ace high and hoped for a safe river for a split. As for other possibilities, I was thinking of two - he actually had a Q or a 5, or h
  13. By the way, up to then I had only three-bet three or four times - with JJ, KK twice, and AK - pretty standard. Every time the hand was shown down, and I won all 4 I think. I was almost positive he read me for a big pocket pair, and was waiting for the turn to extract more value/get me pot committed.
  14. Late in $10 limit HE sit and go on Stars (where the blinds go up insanely fast)- I folded AA on the turn. Used up all 60 seconds of time before I did, thinking it through. What do you guys think?PokerStars Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind t300 (4 handed) converterButton (t2125)Hero (t2940)BB (t5085)UTG (t3350)Preflop: Hero is SB with [Ah], [Ac]. UTG raises, UTG calls.Flop: (7 SB, t2100) [Qs], [Qd], [5s] (2 players)Hero bets, UTG calls.Turn: (4.50 BB, t2700) [5h] (2 players)Hero bets, Hero folds.Final Pot: 7.5 BB (t4500)I thought it about, and finally decided he had to have KQ/QJ, or possi
  15. Hey all,This was a huge hand that came up while Aseem and I were LAGing it up in the .01/.02 PLO tables at Pokerstars. Both of us were big stacked, and this hand was the collision of both our stacks. I had one of the best possible flops for my hand, only to hit a turn that sunk me. The question is - should I be smooth calling Aseem's stop-and-go on the turn, looking for one of my many outs, instead of raising and facing a reraise that forced me to commit all of my chips? I had the nut flush draw, a set, and a gutshot for Broadway - all of these outs probably would've killed the action on t
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