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Old 10-20-2007, 11:34 PM
Jake M. Jake M. is offline
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Default Do I call it all off here?

This is a short handed, double stack tournament on Full Tilt. This is about 10 hands into the tournament. Four hands ago, a tight player UTG raises 4x the BB and the villain just open shoves for 3k with AA and gets called by QQ. So our Villain made a ridiculous over bet with the Aces. Then a few hands later we get tangled up in the following hand:

Full Tilt Poker Game #3917985710: $14,000 Guarantee (29299996), Table 72 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:17:05 ET - 2007/10/20
Seat 1: ifishharder (2,730)
Seat 2: Keeko (6,215)
Seat 3: Mason00 (2,880)
Seat 4: maastud6 (2,945)
Seat 5: F00Fight34 (6,170)
Seat 6: HAMMERSHARK (2,585)
maastud6 posts the small blind of 20
F00Fight34 posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Mason00 [9h Ah]
HAMMERSHARK folds
ifishharder folds
Keeko calls 40
Mason00 calls 40
maastud6 calls 20
F00Fight34 checks
*** FLOP *** [9c 8d 6c]
maastud6 checks
F00Fight34 bets 120
Keeko folds
Mason00 raises to 360
maastud6 has 15 seconds left to act
maastud6 folds
F00Fight34 raises to 6,130, and is all in

Do I make the call or do I let it go, being so early in the tournament?

Here is what is going on through my head:

1. He was in the big blind and could have anything. We know he could not have flopped a straight. He is not going to shove all in with the nuts on the flop here. I feel that he would just re-raise me, not shove all in, getting me off a hand.

2. In his eyes, he probably feels that I have some sort of draw. Perhaps he thinks I have a hand like 77, for a pair and open ender and that I can get him off an 8.

3. He just made the over bet all in bet with AA 4 hands earlier. I doubt if he had a real hand he would make the same play again. I feel like he would do the opposite because he wants to get paid off this time.

4. I just limped pre-flop so he doesnt put me on a too strong of a hand that would merit a raise here. So that's why he makes the all in, he thinks he can get me off of top pair.

My instincts took over and I felt like that he was trying to get me off of a drawing hand. I felt like he had a hand like Q9 or something (just top pair and a DECENT kicker).

I'll post the result of the hand soon...
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Old 10-20-2007, 11:52 PM
erc007 erc007 is offline
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Default Re: Do I call it all off here?

I really hate this flop raise. Did u have a plan for what you were going to do if villain 3-bet you? You really don't want to play a big pot here with TP/TK/and no clubs on this board. As played just fold to his 3-bet. FWIW, i don't think folding the flop would be really bad either since you're def facing some pretty serious reverse implied odds on this flop.
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Old 10-21-2007, 12:00 AM
Dunkman Dunkman is offline
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Default Re: Do I call it all off here?

Fold to the shove, and I agree on just calling the flop bet, maybe get a little more aggressive on a turn blank, but I may just call down and fold if a scare card comes.
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Old 10-21-2007, 05:45 PM
Jake M. Jake M. is offline
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Default Re: Do I call it all off here?

So what am I suppose to do, let a club or the open ender get there? I figure we are deep enough that a raise of 240 was not a significant portion of my stack. I also like raising because I like to see where I am at in the hand.
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