Tough spot early in FTP 1k...

[registrar]

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Is there a reason its done this way?



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Because it's real pretty.

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $20/$40
9 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: $3265
UTG+1: $4295
MP1: $3455
MP2: $2470
MP3: $2275
CO: $3525
Button: $2650
Hero: $1880
BB: $3185

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is SB with K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, CO folds, Button calls, Hero calls, BB checks.

Flop: 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($240, 6 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $100</font>, BB folds, UTG+1 calls, MP2 folds, MP3 calls, Button folds.

Turn: 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($540, 3 players)
Hero checks, <font color="#cc0000">UTG+1 bets $200</font>, <font color="#cc0000">MP3 raises to $560</font>.
Hero?

I liek the flop lead but why so little?

I think this is a shove. You check because you expect someone to bet. Someone bets. Someone else makes a stack committing raise. Someone else think's he's probably got the best hand. Someone else's range is a little behind yours. Calling is bad. People call you light so shove. Folding might be an option but with so many fours and draws in MP3's range, I don't think you can pursue it.

[Rocco]

Hmmm... If it was me, I'd fold, cause I'd be up against a made house or A4 a lot more than I get a call from worse hands. To you guys who advocate a fold, do you really consider looking at this hand from BeL0W's perspective, having his reputation? Or is the added range of worse calling hands he gets just for being who he is, not enough to make up for all the times he's behind?

So, in the clothes of a more loose-aggro player, I'd shove this.

[THEOSU]

i'm struggling to come up with a hand for vegan that plays this way. i'm coming up with 99, 22 and hands like 45, 46, A4 etc. i suppose that extended range makes a push the right play, since you have a king kicker with your 4, disregarding the possibilities of 35ss or T9ss type hands.

[registrar]

Pre-flop and flop action is so gay that he gets here with all kinds of spade/gutshot/pair combos. Whether he raises them in position I don't know but in the face of thye check/weak stab turn action, I think they have to go into the range, if underweighted (I think he's boated here a lot FWIW but I also think we're too shallow to fold and, after all, as far as he's concerned, this is two lags splashing around in a weird way)