(live $175) Time to bail out of a stop-n-go?
Mirage live $175 SNG, ten players start, payout 70%/30%
2000 starting chips, 4 players left
Hero = BB
The Button is a fairly poor player. He got his stack with a great run of cards paid off by even weaker players, plus a few suckouts. He has been raising my BB fairly frequently. I've been folding a lot more than normal to his raises due to a glut of indefensible BB hands. My handle on his raising range isn't great, but I'm sure it includes any pair, any ace, any two Broadway, and maybe some other stuff. I know he's capable of laying down a hand as good as top pair, but that was against someone else and I'm not sure how much credit he is going to give me postflop since I doubt he even remembers me playing my one hand.
The table has turned fairly aggressive. I am perceived as some sort of retarded maniac because I keep pushing for ~10 BB. People limp... I push... profit. There was a lot of "I'm gonna catch you, you little punk," going on every time I would push. I showed down one hand in a small pot very early on, then nothing else.
This hand is a stop-and-go from the start. I had yet to pull one of these and now seemed as good an opportunity as I was going to get. I'm still convinced it was the correct strategic decision for the hand but my tactics might have failed me.
blinds 150/300/25A
stacks are approximate
UTG (t4800)
Button (t8000)
SB (t4000)
Hero (t3200)
Dealt to Hero Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Preflop: <font color="#666666">UTG folds</font>, <font color="red">Button raises to t900</font>, <font color="#666666">SB folds</font>, Hero calls t600.
Flop: (t2050) A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
Hero ???
Can you pull the trigger on that flop? Can I not pull the trigger on that flop?
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