Ace High I Call

[LearnedfromTV]

20/180, 30ish left, i'm like 18th. Villain is aggro monkey:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (8 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

UTG (t10441)
UTG+1 (t3405)
MP1 (t6027)
MP2 (t8838)
CO (t8090)
Hero (t6855)
SB (t3211)
BB (t5021)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1234</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB calls t834.

Flop: (t2243) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets t3762 (All-In)</font>, Hero calls t3762.

[Cornell Fiji]

looks like a planned stop and go.

What hands would he run a planned SNG with?

[SuperUberBob]

Is it even possible to raise to 1234? And why that number?

That said, I make this call. I can't credit my opponent for a hand better than mine. Probably has a draw. Maybe he had A6 or something like that.

[0evg0]

Yeah this is fine dude

[seke2]

Serious question about the preflop raise.

Do you notice ANY difference in what sort of action you get when you raise a normal amount (like 1200 here) vs. a weird amount (like 1234 here)?

[BarryLyndon]

This is all read/gut dependent. I don't think you can study/plan/logically comment on this that much. It's reasonable given a read.

[LearnedfromTV]

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looks like a planned stop and go.

What do you have his planned sng range as being?

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I have a hard time weighing the different possibilities, but I think it basically comes down to pocket pairs and overcard hands i beat, in some mixture. I mean, it's not AK, and it isn't too likely he flopped a pair.

Based on what I'd seen, I expected to get shoved preflop a decent amount of the time, and I def. thought he would shove pairs pre, but then he stopandgoed and of course that makes sense from a pair.

2x pot stop and go seems silly with a pair tho, on this flop, i mean i know stopandgoes are "planned" and it doesn't matter what the baord is, but this is a terrible flop to overbet shove if he has like 88, and three stopandgo pairs flopped sets; there are so many better ways to get the money in.

[LearnedfromTV]

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Serious question about the preflop raise.

Do you notice ANY difference in what sort of action you get when you raise a normal amount (like 1200 here) vs. a weird amount (like 1234 here)?

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i've been screwing around with this lately, mostly cuz i am playing way too many multis and get bored.

i think it might affect the action, but i'm not quite sure how yet. the main reason i do it is that usually it doesn't matter to me if i raise to 2.75x or 3x or 3.5 times bb, but occasionally i'll have a specific reason to raise more or less, and if i've been raising random numbers, it's easier to raise the amount I want without anyone thinking about it, compared to raising 3x every time and then raising 2.5x or 3.5x or 4x.

[seke2]

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i think it might affect the action, but i'm not quite sure how yet. the main reason i do it is that usually it doesn't matter to me if i raise to 2.75x or 3x or 3.5 times pot, but occasionally i'll have a specific reason to raise more or less, and if i've been raising random numbers, it's easier to raise the amount I want without anyone thinking about it, compared to raising 3x every time and then raising 2.5x or 3.5x or 4x.

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Wow, good point. I may have to start doing that a little.

[Mi_T_Sharp]

I get chastised for raising weird numbers all of the time. One reason I like to do it, is because it apparently annoys other players. Plus, it makes a big [censored] stack of chips appear on the table, and I like big [censored] stacks of chips.