**Official** Ask Isura anything about SSNL thread

[Isura]

machine,

Looks like you should fold the flop. You are getting only about 3:1 odds, and you only have overcards. It seems unlikely that he is going this with AJ-AT, it is probably a hand like A8, A5, 99. And I expect him to call his last $6 if you push. It seems like you are a 3:1 underdog if you play till the river, and the odds just aren't there.

[4_2_it]

Isura,

Are you playing to attend the SSNL get together the weekend of July 29-30? If so will you organize the drunken HORSE game?

[Isura]

Beloved,

I tend to loosen up in position when the table gets short. But I continue to play very tight in the blinds. Althought the blinds have more equity with less players, the correct way to make up for this is to play more aggressive in position. Some players will not adjust to your adjustments (they will call your raises with the same range of hands preflop), so you keep that in mind postflop. But other players will notice your play and start calling in the blinds with very marginal hands. You need to punish these players by increasing your aggression on the flop, and especially the turn. Short handed is a great time to make thin value bets, and it helps if you have shown down a few stinkers. I usually continue to play when it gets HU, since most players don't adjust correctly to the blind structure and HU game.

[Isura]

4_2,

I am dying to attend this, but my plans are not set yet. I might be going to vegas in april with the GF, so the only way she'll let me go again is if I qualify for the WSOP. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] However the trip may get pushed back to the summer, in which case I will plan it for this time. About the drunken HORSE, I don't think many places will tolerate us donks. We should lobby to get this game scheduled in Grunch's suite at the Wynn. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Grunch]

Isura,

I was watching FossilMan play in the 1M guaranteed the other day, and I saw a few hands which intrigued me. Now I know that was a tourney and this is cash, but I think there were some basic similarities.

In one hand, a player opened for 3x, which was standard. FossilMan called the raise cold on the CO with ATo. Both players were deep, close to 100BB. Both players were being solid & TAG at that time. Niether were trying to run over the table. Most hands which were contested postflop were heads-up.

Isura, please comment on the idea of coldcalling a raise in position with a top-pair-type hand, like ATo, in a SSNL cash game.

Thanks.

[BalugaWhale]

Isura-

If i have 67s, and I flop top two pair on a monotone, 3-straight board, and four players see the flop, and I'm on the button, and the first player leads and everyone calls, what do I do?

Thanks, I know this question doesn't get talked about much.

[Fivetimes]

Isura,

Can you give me some examples of FPS. I keep hearing that FPS is bad but I'm not sure what plays qualify as "fancy".