What would you do?. Discuss What would you do?, on ChipTalk.net the place to go for your Poker chips and gambling tips. Read it in Poker Strategy General.
Large (450 player online MTT) tourney. Top 45 cash. Blinds at 150/300. Approx. 120 player remaining.
Table Image: UTG +1 - Very LAG pre-flop, has caught cards several times to remain seated including going all-in pre-flop with 83o and catching a FH
HERO - TAG (maybe too tight), who has only had to show down 3 hands and won 2 of 3 at showdown.
Relevant stacks: UTG + 1 = 2200, HERO in BB with $1400 after posting blind
UTG folds
UTG + 1: Raises to 600
Folded around to HERO with 3c 3d
Fold or push. If you call your down to 1100 and are almost committed anyway. If he is a maniac push...and hope your hand holds up. You need chips to win and you only have 4bb left.
First choice - Fold. Do you really want to put your tournament on the line on a pair of threes? You're an underdog to almost every decent hand and only the slightest of favorites against something completely random like J6o.
Second choice - Push. He might be on some wacky move.
No choice - Call. Why bother? You're going to be down to 1100 with no good idea of what he has and there's likely to be three overcards to your weak pair.
You have 2 options Fold or Push. Like FL70 posted do you want to put your tourney on the line with 33? The villian is a LAG, will he call your ALL IN? Though you need to act quick because you are being blinded away. I put him on an A/10, K/J hand at the least.
you have one option, imo. you have no fold equity and a marginal hand. you're incredibly unlikely to be more than 50% and are fairly likely to be crushed.
you need to think about fold equity with any move you make now unless you have a powerhouse.
I think I have a real problem letting go of little pairs in these situations and it's definitely something I need to work on. Although if the situation had been reversed I couldn't force myself to make the call that he did (of course I wouldn't have been in the hand with Q10). I guess I pushed thinking he may fold instead of risking most of his chips. I was wrong.
Anyway, the flop brought a Q and the turn was a 10 so with no miracle 3 to be had I was done.
I think that is impossible to answer. Assuming that you are at a full or almost full table, I don't know many people around here that would min. raise from UTG+1 with QTo and an M of <5.
That said, I don't think you can push in that scenario and not expect the LAG to call with any two cards.
i would call in a shot.
2150 in the pot, and he needs to call 800.
pot offers 2.7:1, which means that he's ok unless you have QQ+
it's a horrible raise to open the pot, but not a horrible call. your push...also horrible, imo.
Is my adding wrong...
sb=150
bb=300
raise=600
all in=1400
pot is 2450
villain is calling 1100 into a 2450 pot 2.2:1...if he thinks your reraise is any broadway and any pair he is not getting the odds (2:3).
Am I wrong?
Last edited by monkeydog : 05-21-2007 at 07:29 PM.
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