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How bad is this play with KK?
Live MTT. Down to 3 tables, about 25 people left, tourney pays the top 20. I have approx 60k in chips. Started with 10k. Average stack is about 41k. 2 players on my immediate left both have me outchipped at least 2 to 1. The rest of the players at the table have about the same chips as me or a little less, with a couple of short stacks.
I pick up KK in early position and...*gasp*...open raise all in. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
Blinds? People calling AI's? whatever, I rather make a small raise if the blinds were somewhat normal. So I can steal with normal raises and no one is the wiser.
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
aggression near the bubble is good, but you dont wanna do it this way i dont think.
id rather limp/RR or standard raise than an open shove. im assuming you have plenty of blinds if you have 1.5x average and are more likely to get action on a raise that doesnt look so suspicious/out-of-the-ordinary -eroc |
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
I think blinds were at 2k/4k with a 200 ante so roughly 7,600 in pot preflop. I open pushed for like 60k. My reasoning (fwiw) was that I didnt want to play with the two big stacks on my left so close to the bubble. Was hoping a short stack might call with AQ or JJ or TT or something like that. And if one of the big stacks woke up with a hand, then oh well, I went out with KK.
In retrospect, I think this was absolutely horrible. I should have raised to like 15k or so (1/4 of my stack). I had a real chance to earn some chips and I blew it. I don't like the limp reraise myself. The way I was playing, limping from EP would have looked very suspicious. |
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
I don't like it... 12k to go and pray the big stacks call.
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
You want to earn money with that hand, not drive everyone out of the pot.
Post made me laugh though. I've done this. It's the difference between being a donk (in my case) and learning that the goal isn't necessarily to announce that you've got a PP. In this case, I totally identify with the mentality and it's pretty much fear-driven and if you play scared, you're in trouble. |
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
seems terrible and scared money?
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#8
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
This play lets your opponents lay down hands that they might otherwise play and stack off to you. "Very Bad" would be my answer to the question.
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
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seems terrible and scared money? [/ QUOTE ] You have 10xBB. If people won't think a smaller raise is suspicious, you can make a smaller raise. I don't see how the push is bad. I would be pushing any pp here. |
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Re: How bad is this play with KK?
The push is fine IMO.
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