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bottlecapthief · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject: What to do?

Full Tilt Poker Game #1016793313: $10 + $1 Tournament (6712457), Table 6 - 150/300 - Pot Limit Omaha - 13:24:42 ET - 2006/09/19
Seat 1: Anchor Steam (13,532)
Seat 2: BottlecapThief (7,344)
Seat 3: bobby flusher (10,906)
Seat 5: Coffee2 (7,521)
Seat 6: eman52 (9,196)
Seat 7: lyndon (5,417)
Seat 8: Hager_ager (7,170)
Seat 9: only1josiah (21,414)
Coffee2 posts the small blind of 150
eman52 posts the big blind of 300
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BottlecapThief [3h Kh Ks Qc]
lyndon folds
Hager_ager folds
only1josiah calls 300
Anchor Steam folds
BottlecapThief calls 300
bobby flusher folds
Coffee2 calls 150
eman52 checks
*** FLOP *** [Kc 4h 2s]
Coffee2 checks
eman52 checks
only1josiah bets 1,200
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My reasoning for not raising preflop is the chipleader has been calling lots of raises with any 4 cards for the most part. I decided to let the flop improve me as opposed to making a huge raise, and then getting stuck with calling off my tournament life with KK. The villain has been playing aggressive post flop, and the money goes to top 7 with 8 people remaining. What do you do here?

jbrennen · Straight Flush Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 422

I'd max out betting here on the flop. It's a great flop for you, about the best you could hope for short of flopping a boat.

Worst case, I think, is an opponent with a hand like Ah-6h-5s-3s. But even against that hand, you're a 58-to-42 favorite. And obviously, chances are that your opponent doesn't have such a perfect draw.

I'd play to double up here. Don't try to limp into the last money spot -- if you double up, you're #2 in chips and stand to earn a lot more than you would for a 7th, 6th, or 5th place finish.

Bet the maximum. If everybody folds to you, fine, you picked up 2100 chips, which is almost a 30% increase in your stack. If you get called or reraised, you just have to hope that your hand holds up.

Kloaked Spirit · Royal Flush Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 869

Re-raising is what I'd do here. Who knows, maybe he has a draw or 2 random pair and wants to play back at you. If he re-raises then you just shove it all in as the favorite and hope it holds up.

bottlecapthief · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:23 am Post subject:

7th place doesnt interest me. I am playing to win, not to make 3 dollars. With that being said, I thought the best chance for me to double up was to push the turn. As it turns out, a club came on the turn, and when I pushed all in, he called with a club draw and K2, 2 pair on the flop. River was a club, and I was out. Thanks for the input guys. I thought about pushing the flop for a second, but second guessed myself and it cost me.

DJ Ninjah · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject:

I don't see why not push on the flop. Sets, even top set, almost always run into trouble if you try to get cute. No one takes a club and parries or jabs with it. They just take it and beat someone in the face. Sets are a dull weapon at best, don't imagine for a second that they are for anything other than bludgeoning people on draws.

bottlecapthief · Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject:

I know, I know. I just wanted to make sure I made the wrong decision. It was really frustrating because I actually was playing great for the whole tournament. Oh well. I shall move on.

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