People's thoughts on Strassa's call with 88 on the 1.5 mil all-in

[Rojosox]

Would you call, and what do you think of his call?

-Jared

[Gary Stevenson]

i assume strassa has his reasons for calling since he's been playing with the guy for an extended period of time...also this doesn't deserve it's own thread.

[The Ocho]

yes. good. this thread in wrong forum.

[captZEEbo]

even if it did deserve it's own thread, might want to post the hand...

PokerStars Game #6412442950: Tournament #40000010, $1000+$50 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXII (30000/60000) - 2006/09/25 - 04:24:57 (ET)
Table '40000010 126' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: elementry (384516 in chips)
Seat 2: BarnyBoatman (1591975 in chips)
Seat 3: sappy123 (1547519 in chips)
Seat 4: MaltLiquor40 (872444 in chips)
Seat 5: razeit (1504840 in chips)
Seat 6: strassa2 (3474563 in chips)
Seat 7: NNICOLAS (1468231 in chips)
Seat 8: thugmoneymkr (1445912 in chips)
elementry: posts the ante 6000
BarnyBoatman: posts the ante 6000
sappy123: posts the ante 6000
MaltLiquor40: posts the ante 6000
razeit: posts the ante 6000
strassa2: posts the ante 6000
NNICOLAS: posts the ante 6000
thugmoneymkr: posts the ante 6000
BarnyBoatman: posts small blind 30000
sappy123: posts big blind 60000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
MaltLiquor40: folds
razeit: folds
strassa2: raises 100000 to 160000
NNICOLAS: folds
thugmoneymkr: folds
elementry: folds
BarnyBoatman: folds
sappy123: raises 1381519 to 1541519 and is all-in
strassa2: calls 1381519
*** FLOP *** [6d 9s 8s]
*** TURN *** [6d 9s 8s] [9c]
razeit said, "nh strassa"
*** RIVER *** [6d 9s 8s 9c] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
sappy123: shows [Ac Qc] (three of a kind, Nines)
strassa2: shows [8d 8h] (a full house, Nines full of Eights)
strassa2 said, "gg"
strassa2 collected 3161038 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3161038 | Rake 0
Board [6d 9s 8s 9c 9h]
Seat 1: elementry (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: BarnyBoatman (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: sappy123 (big blind) showed [Ac Qc] and lost with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 4: MaltLiquor40 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: razeit folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: strassa2 showed [8d 8h] and won (3161038) with a full house, Nines full of Eights
Seat 7: NNICOLAS folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: thugmoneymkr folded before Flop (didn't bet)

[J-Lo]

it was one of those mutual destruction hands... for metagame? Spitecall, like in a SNG someone calls your push w/ 98s so you don't keep pushign into them in other tournies...

sappy and strassa have a history, with strassa pwnign sappy on more than one occasion in big sunday MTT's w/ very marginal plays....

it seems like a v loose call vs sappy's range.... i don't think sappy is pushing A8, or even AJ....

WTF.... eight eight!!!!

[PickyTooth]

haha no wonder you guys suck vs ratholers...

I havent watched the ft at all but strassa is probably raising a
whole hell of alot so people will play back at him with a bunch of hands.

Sappy coulda easily been pushing 22+ Ax+ throw in some 78s into the mix and it's a pretty obvious call.

[BobboFitos]

what kinda impressed me was strassa called in like 5 seconds

edit: yeah, strassa has been raising a ton, he played the bubble so well, and is tearing it up... if he folds there maybe he loses momentum etc.

[Bakes]

people had been reraising strasser's opens all day and strassa wasn't giving up on his "children", either 4-bet pushing or calling and out playing them on the flop. I assume that strassa interpreted the overbet push as a high-cards type hand that didn't want to make a standard reraise to call and whiff the flop (or get 4-bet off the hand ).

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

how many are left?

[cts]

lol, its heads up