Live 1/2NL - Monkey Tilter has Bottom Two on The Flop

jjshabado · #1 11-05-2007, 01:43 AM

I'm playing 1/2NL. Its about 6 hours into the session and I'm down $600 through about 4 or 5 monster hands getting drawn out on. I lose a pot where I flopped the nut straight and the turn brought a better straight to someone else and I'm left with 50ish dollars.

At this point I go on crazy monkey tilt. I suck out a couple of times and show some ridiculously bad hands and make a guy (future villain) lay down QQs on a Kxx flop by going all in. He folds showing the QQs and I tell him I had a 3 (a meaningless card).

After about 30-45 minutes of this I'm crazily back up to 160ish when this hand comes up.

I limp preflop with 89o (I'm still playing almost any 2 for no raise) in late position after a couple of other limpers. Villain is in early position.

Flop - about 6 players ($12): A89 no flush.
- Villain bets $25.
- Folds to me. I grab a handful of chips and raise to about $75
- Villain goes all in and has me covered (about 100 more).
- I?

Questions:
1. I think this is a pretty easy call given my image at this point. But anybody disagree?
2. How would you play this if you had a tighter image (which I usually do)? Is it still an easy call?

Split Suit · #2 11-05-2007, 01:59 AM

3:1 with 2pr and crazy image. its go-time

GT30 · #3 11-05-2007, 02:01 AM

insta call

Bipolar00 · #4 11-05-2007, 02:15 AM

get it in there

jjshabado · #5 11-05-2007, 02:35 AM

Ok cool. This was the one decent sized pot where I didn't get my money in good or at least get it in with a super easy call. I was just thinking over my hands and seeing where I went wrong. Glad to hear this was just bad luck.

Villain had 99s to have me basically drawing dead. Sure enough, he won.

FireStorm · #6 11-05-2007, 03:05 AM

Not much to this one, you have half your stack invested and are getting 3-1 with two pair, live, on an Ace high board. He has Ax often enough to make this easily profitable. In many live 1/2 NL games you have the best hand the majority of the time, against this guys AJ/AT. Villain occasionally shows up with JT here.

Not incredibly relevant, but it seems this is your last buy in, so folding would leave you sitting with $85 and playing in poor form. Thus, this is probably the better spot for the chips to go in.