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Preflop overbet with AK
Sometimes with AK (and AK only) I will make a large push preflop when I feel like a reraise will make the pot so big that the flop will be hard to play if it misses me. That's what I did in the following hand. Stupid? Just make a standard reraise of about 4k?
Party Poker No Limit Holdem Tournament $30+$3 70 people left, pays top 30, average stack 9k Blinds: t200/t400 10 players Converter Stack sizes: UTG: t8778 UTG+1: t6990 UTG+2: t5743 MP1: t3716 MP2: t10168 MP3: t17488 CO: t7963 Hero: t15570 SB: t17663 BB: t7113 Pre-flop: (10 players) Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 5 folds, <font color="#cc0000">MP3 raises to t800</font>, CO calls t800 <font color="#aaaaaa">(pot was t1400)</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises all-in t15570</font> |
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
Yes, you have 40+xbb. This is pretty retarded. Reraise to 2500-3500 and just play poker postflop.
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
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(and AK only) [/ QUOTE ] This is a big part of the problem. Make it 2500 and leave yourself room to maneuver post-flop. |
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
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Yes, you have 40+xbb. This is pretty retarded. Reraise to 2500-3500 and just play poker postflop. [/ QUOTE ] OP has position. Just reraise and play the hand. I don't like the push partly because it looks like AK. I would probably reraise to 2500. I don't like even making a reraise larger than 2500 here, because it looks like AK or some other raising hand trying to take down the pot. I want the raiser to be concerned I have a big pair. |
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
I agree...that this is too many chips to be doing this with. But, people will often put you on a small PP when you overbet the pot. If he had something like 7-8000 chips I don't hate this move. You will often get called by AQ AJ and be in a dominating position.
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
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I agree...that this is too many chips to be doing this with. But, people will often put you on a small PP when you overbet the pot. If he had something like 7-8000 chips I don't hate this move. You will often get called by AQ AJ and be in a dominating position. [/ QUOTE ] I agree it is OK is 7-8K, but I probably wouldn't play it that way. I think people will put you on AK and AQ/AJ will not call. It looks like AK or maybe a mid pp, so JJ+ and AK will probably call. No hand that you are ahead of is likely to call. |
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
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[ QUOTE ] I agree...that this is too many chips to be doing this with. But, people will often put you on a small PP when you overbet the pot. If he had something like 7-8000 chips I don't hate this move. You will often get called by AQ AJ and be in a dominating position. [/ QUOTE ] I agree it is OK is 7-8K, but I probably wouldn't play it that way. I think people will put you on AK and AQ/AJ will not call. It looks like AK or maybe a mid pp, so JJ+ and AK will probably call. No hand that you are ahead of is likely to call. [/ QUOTE ] Have you ever played a Party $30? |
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I agree...that this is too many chips to be doing this with. But, people will often put you on a small PP when you overbet the pot. If he had something like 7-8000 chips I don't hate this move. You will often get called by AQ AJ and be in a dominating position. [/ QUOTE ] I agree it is OK is 7-8K, but I probably wouldn't play it that way. I think people will put you on AK and AQ/AJ will not call. It looks like AK or maybe a mid pp, so JJ+ and AK will probably call. No hand that you are ahead of is likely to call. [/ QUOTE ] Have you ever played a Party $30? [/ QUOTE ] If you think the play is loose enough that there is a good chance you will be called by high cards, then I actually like this push. Against good players, you will only be called as a 5-4, 2-1, or 12-1 dog and you are not getting the pot odds to make up for it with the overbet. Plus by making a small reraise you can often take down the pot with position representing an overpair if you don't take it down preflop. |
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
jcm,
i wouldn't even like this if you were SB/BB, but i HATE it on the button. as someone said, raise to 3500 or so and play some poker! you've got a strong hand and great position. i think ~8.5K is the biggest stack i'd do this with. |
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Re: Preflop overbet with AK
As everyone else has pretty much stated, a push is little too much. 3x villain's bet is sufficient. Since you have position here, there is nothing wrong with just calling here either. When I am OOP is when I prefer to put in the big reraise.
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