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thats so funny,i dont know if i actually posted my theory on d before, of if it is a concurrently developed idea, but its really true, and it should guide your decision to push. To give you a real world example. If you have 2000 in middle position and the blinds are 3/600 you do not push with j8 in middle position because your likelyhood of being called increases due to d, therefore you need a better hand like AT LEAST jq to push. Citing HOH, in his chapter on SHAL he shows that it is better to have tighter players than loose when pushing with a hand like 10 8o. It is along the same idea of wh

pretty much just agreeing with what is said here. First of all, i probably would have just called his raise preflop. If i chose to rraise preflop, i would have pushed to that board on the flop. If i dont reraise and he still bets 400, then a 1800 raise does sound good. the point is to bet out draws.

Ok well i guess i get no imput.Maybe if i tell you my reasoning. At the tournament the next day all the armchair sklanskys had a field day with this, so here is my reasoning and why i think i make the right play. When i saw AQ on the button i thought that i did not want to make a small raise with the hand have him call, and enter no mans land on the flop. I wanted to isolate the bb who might call with her short stack or just give up those pretty chips. If i raised to 10k he would know i had a good hand since i was committing myself to the pot. The chance he would get a huge hand is so small th

i will assume you had the k3. In a multiway pot like this it really does depend on my reads of players and amount of action. Overall i would check just slightly more than i would bet (the 100 bet was the perfect amount to bet a hand like that online by the way). More of an action table the more i check. If it is weaker i bet more often. Call most feeble bets if you check and typically call the more obvious late position pot stealers.

Yes, you probably are against AK AA or KK. He might have a middle pair. But 3 handed with mediocre pot odds most signs point to fold. What did he have?

I was playing a live poker league tourney. There were 40 players and 4 pay out, and we are 5 handed. blinds are 1.5/3 kpayout is 1. 8502. 4503. 2254. 125 first 2 players fold.Hero-20k/buttonVillian-50k/sbhottie-8k/bbI get AQ suited on the button. I raise to 10k. SB was chip leader and showed he was willing to get involved with marginal hands if someone made a small raise. Also i have been getting the bubble or 2 off a disgustingly rediculous amount of times lately (losing races/ getting sucked out etc).The right play? A poll is included so i will further explain my thinking later, just want to

hey man, i know exactly how you feel. Let me start with the 2nd question first. Obviously, there is a difference between online poker and live poker. There are simply more bad players making BAD plays online. The unfortunate result i have found is that you simply have to pay off people on the river in alot of situations. Many times i have been worried that my trips were rivered by a flush. Checked a 10 dollar pot, guy goes all in for 8 bucks, only to have some lousy top pair ok kicker. for every story like that there is also a story where he had the flush. With 8 dollars to call 18 in that sit

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I don't know about FAR MORE. More, yeah your probably right, remember though that he reraised, and like the low to mid pairs, he might call the raise with AQ or KQ. Given those facts we could maybe change the percentages to 20% for AA and KK and 30% that were dominating. Remember also that i included a separate category for crap like QJ and absolute stone cold bluffs. Oh, his m was 8, low but not desparate, and some at that middle level dont even consider low M strategy adjustments.

A similar situation with a similar backdrop of circumstances happened to me last evening in a live tourney. I called with my AK and so should you. You are getting about 2 to 1 pot odds. I would expect that you are in a race situation, the chances that your dominating or he's dominating you are about equal in their likelyhood, the reraise does probably indicate a strong hand, but there are only 3 ways he can have AA or KK and 12 ways he can have AQ, with a lesser chance he has some donkey trap hand . Lets look at how you figure your odds here (this method is taken directly from harringtons book

A. I said you still need to pushB. A cold call of a re-raise IS scary.C. he might have called with those donkey trash hands, but he probably didnt.

fold, odds can be like statistics sometimes you can use them to demonstrate whatever you want. Know when to use them.

I agree with naismith. But sometimes you just keep running into big hands. Recently, i was playing 3 handed in a live sng with someone, and i had a nearly perfect read on him. Well, 8 of 9 hands i read him for top pair or better, 3 times i had middle pair top kicker, and laid it down. finally with middle pair heads up i could take it no more and pushed. He had top pair again! i lost. Same thing happened yesterday in an online tourney. If you see the same person/ group of people/ what seem to be the better players raising your raise consistently, you must make a stand and fight back or you will

One word for this situation. SCARY. did he limp with aces or kings, hope you catch something and plan to go all in on the flop. You dont know. I think you have to push here. hopefully isolate and have 51 bucks of dead money.