Coloring up and the effects on an individual hand (question).

[Bantam222]

How can you put your opponet on Acerag? you have 50% of your money in the pot, basically commited, he will be pushing a good amount of hands.

And how does this color up work? if you win do you get colored up to 20k chips?

[Gonso]

Apparently, they're coloring up to 5k chips. They take all of the smaller denomination chips and trade them in for 5k and higher. Since a lot of the time it's not exact, they round up. In this case, if he folds he'll still have 6k, but that will be colored up to 10k.

Either way, OP is going to have to win three consecutive hands if both players are pushing & calling to the end - regardless of whether or not you fold this hand.

How he reads Ax is besides the point - if you think you're behind in this one (for whatever reason), then you could opt to let this one go and play the next three. If it weren't for the color-up and the huge percentage increase to your stack, of course you auto-call.

[dcredskins24]

Thanks for the responses and input.

As far as putting him on Ax, he only raised with ace rag. Every other hand he tried to slowplay, including small pairs, big pairs. So my read was not 100% but I was fairly confident(and correct) that he had Ax. And yes, they were going to color up to 5k chips and round up any amounts.

I actually went ahead and called with K3, but when he came over to color up for the next hand this immediately jumped in my mind. It was going to be a call until he mentioned coloring up. So that swayed my decision and I was unsure.

Thanks for the input, and I know i need a lot of luck to win the next three hands, but I just wanted to see how this situation would affect the whole thing.

[ALawPoker]

First of all, you should basically call ATC here.

Second, you should absolutely call with K-high.

Third, there is no way in your right mind you should be "fairly sure he had A-rag".

Fourth, the fact that you're coloring up next hand means absolutely nothing.

This is a retarded thread.


EDIT: Did I misunderstand what you were asking? what do you mean you will be colored up to 10K?? Coloring up refers to changing the denominations of chips, not the value of stacks. Did this bar tournament for some reason add chips at each level? If such is the case, it is at least conceivable that you should fold.

[Gonso]

You ever play in a live tourney, ALaw?

[dcredskins24]

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First of all, you should basically call ATC here.

Second, you should absolutely call with K-high.

Third, there is no way in your right mind you should be "fairly sure he had A-rag".

Fourth, the fact that you're coloring up next hand means absolutely nothing.

This is a retarded thread.


EDIT: Did I misunderstand what you were asking? what do you mean you will be colored up to 10K?? Coloring up refers to changing the denominations of chips, not the value of stacks. Did this bar tournament for some reason add chips at each level? If such is the case, it is at least conceivable that you should fold.

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Yes chips were added during coloring up. I had 6k in chips and it was going to be colored up to 5k denominations. Therefore the lone 1k chip is rounded up to a 5k chip. Hence the reason for the thread.