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[YBravo]

So here's the situation. When this SnG got down to 5-handed, it became clear that one of the players remaining had disconnected, and it didn't seem like he was coming back. I had a stack in the 3500-4000 range, so I decided to start getting aggressive, hoping that everyone had noticed the disconnection and would try to just wait until he got knocked out. I ended up winning the next 10 hands in a row, including a knockout. I got all the way up to 12000 in chips with 3 players left (13500 at the table). So my image was obviously super-aggressive. I knocked one player out, but I ended up doubling up the other guy about 3 or 4 times, sometimes when behind and sometimes when ahead (pre-flop). I was a little annoyed that this actually became a contest. We had just gotten to heads up, and so far the villain has moved in twice (once on the flop after reraising pre-flop), and folded his button the other hand.

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t100/t200
2 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
Hero: t7780
BB: t5720

Pre-flop: (2 players) Hero is SB with J A
Hero raises to t600, BB calls t400 (pot was t700).

Flop: 8 J Q (t1200, 2 players)
BB is all-in t5120, Hero ????

Critique is also welcome on my plan to get super-aggressive. Thanks.

[trystero]

I fold. I have seen so many donks at these limits play their strong hands by open shoving. Just yesterday for example I had AQ HU, flop came down AK3, villain shoved for like 5x the pot, I called obv and he flipped over Krablar. WTF?

You can call here with a good read of villain, but you don't have that. Calling here is tilt. You aren't shortstacked by any means; there's no reason to panic. Find a better spot than praying that villain's sharing your pair.

Getting hyperaggressive at a shorthanded SNG is always a great idea. Players so often hope to squeak into the money that you can blind steal with impunity. By the time someone actually picks up a hand you have them covered 3x and you'll suck out, anyway.

[shpaget]

meh - flip a coin - far too often this is JT, KJ, a flush draw, A8, and other hands you beat. You are likely better than 50% against his range of hands.

You lose, you still got 10x the bb.



Nothing wrong with folding though, there's still enough play in the stacks this doesn't have to be all-in on the flop every hand.

[ChrisRichey]

meh - flip a coin - far too often this is JT, KJ, a flush draw, A8, and other hands you beat. You are likely better than 50% against his range of hands.

You lose, you still got 10x the bb.
Nothing wrong with folding though, there's still enough play in the stacks this doesn't have to be all-in on the flop every hand.

Agreed, but I am a POW, so I obv would've called.

[asytnik]

I think I'm folding here primarily because the blinds are so small. If they were say 300-600 or 500-1000, then yeah let's run it, but I think you see Q9s,QTs, or maybe even QK,Q7 just as often as you see the open-ended draw. There's still a lot of play left and there's no point flipping against an inferior player who is inferior primarily because he's getting too hyper-aggressive with high Ms. So easy to exploit.

[copernicus]

Your intitial plan to get aggressive was perfect, and accomplished what you wanted. Im not sure you played it well after you got the big chip lead though. If you doubled up somebody that many times either he was very aggressive and forcing the action, or you should have switched gears and let the blinds do their job.

This hand is all read...can he be making this play with a semibluff? with a pair of 8s? a pair of Js? Lets say hes got the Q 2/3 of the time and he's got a worse hand 1/3 of the time.

Your equity is something like 6320*(1/3*.8 + 2/3 * .2) - 5120 * (2/3 * .8 + 1/3 *.2) = -544

Thats pretty low, so Id probably fold, with plenty of play left.

[YBravo]

Your intitial plan to get aggressive was perfect, and accomplished what you wanted. Im not sure you played it well after you got the big chip lead though. If you doubled up somebody that many times either he was very aggressive and forcing the action, or you should have switched gears and let the blinds do their job.

Well, it was sort of 50/50. I had him all in way behind twice and way ahead twice, but he won all four. But I should have been a little more careful in picking my spot to put him all in the first time. As for this hand, I felt like my opponent had just gotten super-aggressive, so I made the call. He had the flush draw, and got there on the river. I ended up losing to him like three hands later. Pretty frustrating after having about 9/10ths of the chips in play.