Gimme your input, please. There was a lot of chat about this hand...
Large PokerStars tourney, nearing the bubble. Full table, seat #6 is button. Level 13, blinds are 1000/2000 with 100 ante, so 3,900 in the pot before the deal.
Tomb1 is c/o seat #5 with 26,477 (M < 7)
Seats 9-1-2-3-4 all fold.
I look down at
Button and SB are decent players, with stacks of 70,184 and 75,183. BB has 43,570.
I min-raise to 4,000 (the typical raise raise that's taken down unopened pots recently)
Button folds, SB folds.
BB is loose player with 43,570 in chips, but down from 80,000+ and seems like he's on tilt. I took a nice pot from him about 40 minutes ago with pocket JJ versus his Big Slick and an A-K-J flop.
BB comes over the top and pushes all-in (has me covered).
I think: I'm ready to gamble on a coin-flip with low M ... I'll bust out here OTM or get a nice stack to finish deep in the money ... I think BB is trying to push me out with a medium hand.
So I call, all-in for me.
1. Should I have even tried a steal here, or just fold pre-flop?
2. Should I have raised more pre-flop?
3. Should I have folded to his re-raise?
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BB show Ac Js and has me dominated.
Flop 8c 6h 7c
BB goes wild -- "this site is such a joke" and "ur garbage tomb" and "everyone sux" and "fcuking BS" (quoted from the hand history BTW)
Turn Qh
River 2s
I double up and go on to finish in the money, though not in the really big money.
