[BrettButter]

This hand involves myself, jetra, and jojo. jojo, if you don't want me to reveal your hand to the public, please notify me and I will not release it later on in the story. Jetra and I have already been talking about it.


PokerStars Game #9689795872: Tournament #49091864, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2007/04/30 - 21:45:36 (ET)
Table '49091864 4' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: FSU88 (2565 in chips)
Seat 3: SandyCreekCT (1320 in chips)
Seat 4: bigbadafro (1530 in chips)
Seat 5: thejojobinks (410 in chips)
Seat 6: jetra2 (1005 in chips)
Seat 7: ratatosk (1450 in chips)
Seat 8: BrettButter (2220 in chips)
ratatosk: posts small blind 15
BrettButter: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BrettButter [Qh Ah]
FSU88: folds
SandyCreekCT: folds
bigbadafro: folds
thejojobinks: raises 380 to 410 and is all-in
jetra2: raises 595 to 1005 and is all-in
ratatosk: folds

Action on me. What do you do?

[jetra2]

I'm OK with the reveal.

Oh, well...I think I would likely fold as well...but I'd be taking that 60 seconds.

Jason

[yeltzen]

One of the easiest folds I'd ever make.

[Wedge Rock]

I often see someone in jetra's place go all in with a strong drawing hand (even something like suited K-10) basically to force everyone else out of the hand.

That said, you don't have anything but a draw, and only 30 chips in the middle.

[Poboy]

Looks like a classic iso raise from jetra. He's likely to have A8s+, any pair, KQ. Jojo's range is pretty wide. Still, a fold is std. I might push in for the chance at eliminating two players, and because when I played the CT tourneys, chances are I'd get killed by guys like jojo and FSU the longer we played. I might roll the dice so I can have the big stack.

[jetra2]

Are you guys saying I'm too loose????

Maybe I am too loose...

But it's fun!

Jason

[BrettButter]

BrettButter: folds
*** FLOP *** [As 5d 3c]
*** TURN *** [As 5d 3c] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [As 5d 3c Ks] [9c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
thejojobinks: shows [Js Qs] (high card Ace)
jetra2: shows [Jc Jd] (a pair of Jacks)
jetra2 said, "gg"
jetra2 collected 865 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 865 | Rake 0
Board [As 5d 3c Ks 9c]
Seat 1: FSU88 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: SandyCreekCT folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: bigbadafro folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: thejojobinks showed [Js Qs] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: jetra2 (button) showed [Jc Jd] and won (865) with a pair of Jacks
Seat 7: ratatosk (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: BrettButter (big blind) folded before Flop

[yeltzen]

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 40.080% 39.71% 00.37% 544272 5128.33 { AhQh }
Hand 1: 13.965% 13.22% 00.74% 181223 10196.83 { QsJs }
Hand 2: 45.955% 45.48% 00.47% 623470 6463.83 { JcJd }


You're getting like 1.5:1, but you're what... one level into the tournament? Sorry, I'm not going all in without a monster. Fold.

[BrettButter]

jojo's range was huge, and I know jetra may have been a little on the loose side (despite him showing some fairly big hands when his raises weren't called)

The more I thought about it though, I knew I had to lay it down. It represented half of my chips, and while jojo was kind of short, jetra had some playing chips left. While I would have loved to get all of those chips, I wanted to wait for a better spot.

[yeltzen]

Originally Posted by BrettButter

jojo's range was huge, and I know jetra may have been a little on the loose side (despite him showing some fairly big hands when his raises weren't called)

The more I thought about it though, I knew I had to lay it down. It represented half of my chips, and while jojo was kind of short, jetra had some playing chips left. While I would have loved to get all of those chips, I wanted to wait for a better spot.

I don't care how loose someone is, you're not going to see them make that play with something you beat very often that early in the tournament. You should never have looked at the results. Now you're second-guessing a good decision!