AKs from Button in Blindbattle - NL10

[Bauz]

Hello everyone! I ve been lurking the forums a few months now and decided that it s time to start posting hands /images/graemlins/smile.gif

I started out playing at NL2 and have increased my roll to 500$ and i ll be moving to NL25 once i reach 600$. I mostly 2 table.

This is basically a preflop sanity check for me + i m testing the hand history converter. So be gentle since it s my first hand /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

<font color="blue">Villian is 50/2/6 over 100 Hands. I have been stealing blinds quite a bit. So far he has raised only once in this session (a Minraise in the Button were he didn t show down his hand). I m 27/15/2.6 at the table with 55% blind stealing.</font>

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05/$0.10
5 players
Converter (http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter)

Stack sizes:
UTG: $0.45
CO: $13.15
Hero: $9.35
SB: $22.50
BB: $3.55

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/club.gif K/images/graemlins/club.gif
2 folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $0.4</font>, <font color="#cc0000">SB raises to $0.8</font>, BB folds, Hero ???

Against someone with a higher preflop raise percentage the standard play would be a push right?

So what s the villians range here? My rough guess would be about 10+ and AK here.

So against this range i m about 43 to 57 dog:

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

56,506,032 games 0.002 secs 28,253,016,000 games/sec

Board:
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 43.375% 31.03% 12.35% 17532855 6976617.00 { AcKc }
Hand 1: 56.625% 44.28% 12.35% 25019943 6976617.00 { TT+, AKs, AKo }

So this is basically not a good situation to push because i m at best 50-50 if i add a bit of bluffing probability to the mix.

Reraising to some other amount also sucks because then i m committed and obviously i can t fold.

So my best option here would be to call and see if an ace or king peels off?

[ybother]

i see nothing wrong with calling and seeing a flop when you are in position here

[chawla2890]

just call the re-raise, no need to shove.

you're definitely not pot-commited if you re-raise btw.

[MrWooster]

Chawla is right, you will not be pot committed if you raise... I think you have to go a bit on feel here, if you think villain is getting sick of you stealing his blinds, then I would re-raise here to about 2.5-3 and fold to a push (though it would help if you had a full stack).

If you think villain is a bit of a donk, which from his stats seems likely, I would just call and re-evaluate the flop. I think that if an A or K comes on a fairly dry flop then you can be quite confident of being ahead, though beware or the player who minraises monster hands.

[Bauz]

thanks for the input, yeah i was a bit lazy on the rebuys there /images/graemlins/smile.gif