180 man: final table bubble

Borys313 · #1 05-31-2007, 01:28 PM

10 person left, all stacks between 10-25K and one huge about 55K which abuses quite liberally with overbets, I am siting with about 24K. Blinds are 800/1600

Ok so I limp with A8 UTG and leader puts me all in. What to do?

shaundeeb · #2 05-31-2007, 01:29 PM

was I villian in this?

As played fold PF no reason to ever get invovled.

LSgambler · #3 05-31-2007, 01:30 PM

Don't limp, fold or raise preflop. As played fold.

Borys313 · #4 05-31-2007, 01:39 PM

No, some unknown to me.

I generally intended to limp-reraise him all in with some random hand, hoping he is not eager to put half stack to resistance as he raised me half of the time with overbets, but the all in put me off balance. Not sure what should I expect him to have.

scriptdude · #5 05-31-2007, 01:43 PM

How about a hand that beats your ace trash?

If you are really curious, you could call.

shaundeeb · #6 05-31-2007, 01:44 PM

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No, some unknown to me.

I generally intended to limp-reraise him all in with some random hand, hoping he is not eager to put half stack to resistance as he raised me half of the time with overbets, but the all in put me off balance. Not sure what should I expect him to have.

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good concept bad hand selection.

jon_1van · #7 05-31-2007, 02:00 PM

With your stack, and a 5 handed table I could raise or fold this.

I would raise if I've been quiet for a while. I'd fold if I had recently shown down crap, or if I'd stolen a few times recently.

Also, if I was going to raise this hand it would only be to 2.5BB. I would not raise this hand to 3 BB. Basically, I like to take alot of stabs at the blinds when the table gets short. To keep the risk down a little bit I go from a 3x raiser to a 2.5x raiser once we are 6 handed or less.

As played easy fold. Basically you have a bad player with a ton of chips, wait around for him to giftwrap those chips for someone else.

shaundeeb · #8 05-31-2007, 02:02 PM

I don't care how quiet you've been unless half the table is sitting out this is a really bad open because if you raise/fold you severly hurt your restealability stack which you should be doing vs the overbetting CL guy.

jon_1van · #9 05-31-2007, 02:06 PM

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I don't care how quiet you've been unless half the table is sitting out this is a really bad open because if you raise/fold you severly hurt your restealability stack which you should be doing vs the overbetting CL guy.

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Even if its 5 handed?

Also consider that depending on what level 180 this is there may be no such thing as a "resteal"

Borys313 · #10 05-31-2007, 02:12 PM

Exactly i didnt want to raise 20% of my stack and fold to re-raise. If i make it 4K, he makes it 12K i cannot re-steal cause villian gets 3:1 on call.

But if I limp he makes it 7K like he used to i can push for 18K more puting him to a test.

Though I agree that after my limp and his all-in A8 goes to the muck. In fact I am today mentally troubled and called, but thats not the interesting part of this hand.