What is your action here?

[The-Donk]

Transcript for your last 1 games requested by Anish-1 (Anantha034@Yahoo.com)
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PokerStars Game #11119413863: Tournament #56066116, $25.00+$2.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) - 2007/07/24 - 22:28:26 (ET)
Table '56066116 27' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: BiiiSheesh (4586 in chips)
Seat 2: buddyman222 (13562 in chips)
Seat 3: Mike11879 (28633 in chips)
Seat 4: soop2nuts (19025 in chips)
Seat 5: samsam999 (8804 in chips)
Seat 6: fenceposts (26460 in chips)
Seat 7: shanku (5074 in chips)
Seat 8: Anish-1 (24957 in chips)
Seat 9: 3boyz1girl (45825 in chips)
BiiiSheesh: posts the ante 50
buddyman222: posts the ante 50
Mike11879: posts the ante 50
soop2nuts: posts the ante 50
samsam999: posts the ante 50
fenceposts: posts the ante 50
shanku: posts the ante 50
Anish-1: posts the ante 50
3boyz1girl: posts the ante 50
3boyz1girl: posts small blind 300
BiiiSheesh: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Anish-1 [9d 9s]
buddyman222: folds
Mike11879: folds
soop2nuts: raises 1200 to 1800
samsam999: folds
fenceposts: folds
shanku: folds
Anish-1: calls 1800
3boyz1girl: raises 4800 to 6600

[Gesangsverein]

just fold!
No matter what soop2nuts will do.
Your stack is quite healthy and both your opponents are able to bust you out of tournament / cripple your stack.
No need to get into trouble with a medium strong hand.

[Dave D]

You need to tell us what soop2nuts does. If he calls, I guess maybe you can think about calling, but you're playing for set value. You're getting 4:1 there and you know the other two are playing for stacks.

Definitely don't push, and if soup pushes, fold.

[illini43]

You will be getting 2.4:1 odds to call if the OR folds and 3.4:1 to call if the OR calls. If you play this hand strictly for set value, you would be getting ~8.2:1 odds if you can count on getting your stack in and called by the squeezer.

This is tricky because of the squeeze. Do you have any reads on the BB? Those would be very helpful here. I think with the squeezer's stack, his range can be very wide as he can fold if 4bet. Because of this, I might be inclined to call (or raise???) if it comes back around to me. Bleh, I don't like this spot. I'm interested as to what others have to say.

Also, OP, please use a converter.

[paddymcg21]

I definitely agree a few reads on the big stack would be magic here but for me it's a fold. I for one dont really want to put 1/4 of my stack in, in the knowledge i pretty much have to fold if I dont hit my set. 99 is the most gay hand in poker IMO and I hate getting it. I fold here.

[The-Donk]

Continuing on the above - now what?

BiiiSheesh: folds
soop2nuts: folds
Anish-1: calls 4800
*** FLOP *** [6h 7c 6c]

[illini43]

Beh, I don't like the call preflop without the OR coming along.

What's the SB's action??? He acts first, that is pretty important here.

[Manup]

I bet SB is either a push or a healthy bet. Pretty sure the PF call screwed us here as we still don't know where we stand. I would have voted for the PF flod...but in this case post flop is all how you read the player, still doesn't hurt to fold to see another day

[BlueEcho]

Inorder to call pf here you have to be sure you can stack villian as you are getting very close to 8-1 implied odds on this call. The problem is you can't be sure that you are going to stack this guy when you flop a set. Villian's range will include lots of hands that don't stack off. Also, I like to use a 10-1 rule anyway to cover for redraws and such after I hit my set and they do stack off. Furthmore, I really feel like you aren't deep enough to just call and fold on most flops that you won't like as it would be 27% or you remaining stack.

As played it would be nice to know what the action of villian is on the flop seeing as he is acting first. That said if you can put AK, AQ or any other hand that isn't a pair in villian's range I shove here no matter what he does. You are priced in even if his range is this narrow:

Board: 6c 6h 7c
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 43.161% 43.16% 00.00% 26492 0.00 { 9d9s }
Hand 1: 56.839% 56.84% 00.00% 34888 0.00 { TT+, AQs+, AQo+ }


One more thing..............Use a hand converter!

[The-Donk]

Yeah - you are right.

As played the rest of the HH is below.

3boyz1girl: bets 39175 and is all-in
Anish-1: calls 18307 and is all-in
soop2nuts said, "grrr"
*** TURN *** [6h 7c 6c] [5d]
soop2nuts said, "77"
*** RIVER *** [6h 7c 6c 5d] [Ah]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
3boyz1girl: shows [Ks Ad] (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
Anish-1: shows [9d 9s] (two pair, Nines and Sixes)
3boyz1girl collected 52664 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 52664 | Rake 0
Board [6h 7c 6c 5d Ah]
Seat 1: BiiiSheesh (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: buddyman222 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Mike11879 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: soop2nuts folded before Flop
Seat 5: samsam999 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: fenceposts folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: shanku folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Anish-1 (button) showed [9d 9s] and lost with two pair, Nines and Sixes
Seat 9: 3boyz1girl (small blind) showed [Ks Ad] and won (52664) with two pair, Aces and Sixes

That donk pushed with AK. I rightly put him on AQ/AK.

I made the right call, played for the big win. I lost - but I am ok as I made the right play.

Comments pls.