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starvingsteve
10-21-2007, 03:17 AM
So the UTG character has been playing pretty tight, the one thing though is that he only min-raises when he enters a hand, so it gets a little confusing as to what he holds. The way he played this, I'm thinking I should fold.

Sorry, no pokertracker, so I can't give you his exact stats.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool (http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php) from FlopTurnRiver.com (http://www.flopturnriver.com) (Format: 2+2 Forums)

Hero ($6.65)
BB ($1.08)
UTG ($1.39)
MP ($1.15)
Button ($3.10)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif, Q/images/graemlins/club.gif.
UTG calls $0.02, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $0.1</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $0.32</font>, Hero calls $0.22.

So I raise it with queens (standard), the reraise kinda scares me, so I check the turn.

Flop: ($0.66) 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG bets $0.3</font>, Hero ...?

Like I said, since this guy only min-raises to enter a pot (played about 30-40 hands at this point and he only raised it to about 3xbb once, it's been kinda hard to put him on a range). That's what made this tricky to me.

2p2J
10-21-2007, 03:20 AM
It's not an easy fold at all. given the action your either way ahead or way behind. This might be bad advice but in this spot I either c/f the flop (more than 75% of the time) or c/c the whole way down.

AZplaya
10-21-2007, 04:07 AM
his raise pre is for over 20% of his stack. Don't call a raise pre for 20% of effective stacks at this level. Shove or fold pre. I prefer shove. As played you can anything besides folding is burning money

2p2J
10-21-2007, 04:17 AM
Wow didn't see that before. This is a def shove pre flop or at best you should have put another raise in there.

HasPair
10-21-2007, 04:23 AM
Yeah, with these stacks always shove pre-flop. As you played it, I think you have to fold here.

starvingsteve
10-21-2007, 04:31 AM
Thanks, I really appreciate the advice. Looking at it now, I def understand why I should have reraised/shoved his pf raise. That call with queens looks really timid now.