UB $10- Jeff76 is Weak Tight

[Jeff76]

So how bad is this? Villain limps a lot, raises about standard. I have no real reads due to multi tabling. I probably have a somewhat loose image since I showed down 78s from EP a few hands earlier.

Hand #38401149-46 at Fri815pmA-014 (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
Started at 05/Jan/07 21:02:48

seat 0 5170.
seat 1 5960.
seat 2 430.
seat 3 3710.
seat 4 4920.
Hero 5715.
seat 6 2510.
seat 7 3260.
seat 8 1475.
seat 9 4790.

Hero: A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Pre-flop:
seat 9 calls. seat 0 folds. seat 1 folds. seat 2 folds. seat 3 folds. seat 4 calls. Hero raises to 300. seat 6 folds. seat 7 fold. seat 8 folds. seat 9 re-raises to 560. seat 4 folds. Hero folds

seat 9 is returned 260 (uncalled).

seat 9 wins 700.

[Addiction]

Push?

[hamnegger]

u cant show that kind of weakness, call. see a flop and if u miss check fold if you feel he has a monster. depends on if i have any read on him i may put in a big reraise here and try to shut him out

[doh742]

This sounds like its early in the tournament...So I don't know if I push here because its early, but you wouldn't necessarily be wrong to push back hard. The only hand you are getting the wrong odds to push back against is aces or kings, and he would have to have been check raising aces or kings. You cannot fold that hand for an additional 260 dollars though. As a matter of fact, I don't think you can ever fold that hand against one reraiser. You pick that hand up, folding it is not really a preflop option. I am not a poker math wiz, but I do know this, the blinds move too fast to not be taking marginal advantages. You have to move quickly, at the end of the first hour, you want 5 k at a normal ub tourney. So I at least call, and probably push. Lets look at the hand for a second. He limps early, and you put in a late raise after showing down a weak hand. He probably reads it as a steal. So, he puts a small reraise in to try to take control of the hand. He is probably on a-x or king x. Even if he is slow playing jacks or queens, you are a coinflip and either getting the right odds or close enough to it to call an all in preflop. If you push, he is only getting the right odds to call you if he is paired, and then its even close. So, pushing is correct and so is calling. It would be interesting for someone to run the equity numbers, i don't have pokerstove anymore on the new comp, but I think pushing ace king offsuit against a range of hands from all pairs and any ace through a 8 and king x through king 10 probably has greater equity.

[Jiggymike]

I would probably call but honestly a limp/min-reraise from a donkey looks like AA >90% of the time. That doesn't mean that it is but it isn't worth your whole stack to find out. Call and see what happens on the flop...if his betting indicates he's ready to go all the way with the hand then just muck it this deep.

[Jeff76]

I think a push here is really bad.