Live $150 - Shortstacked blind war w/ A8o

Yoshi63 · #1 07-21-2007, 10:50 PM

This is at the Wildhorse Casino in Pendleton, Or. Saturday's $150 + 10 NLHE event...

Entries - 536
Remaining - 62
Starting chips - 2000

Current blinds are 600/1200 ante 200. The rounds last 30 minutes, and there are about 12 minutes until the next level (800/1600 ante 300). Top 45 players get paid ($400).

The hand:
9 players - starting pot 3600
Hero has 14.3k
Villian 10.6k

Hero is dealt A8o in the BB
7 folds, SB raises all in to 10.4k, Hero...?

Villian had just lost about 5k chips to a shortstack the hand before. He was a young player who seems to understand the game and situation.

Cornell Fiji · #2 07-21-2007, 11:20 PM

Good call.

I think this post could be improved if you put him on a shoving range (what is a good player shoving in his spot) and then pokerstoving A8o against that range. I have not run the calcs but I know you made a good call.

Yoshi63 · #3 07-22-2007, 12:12 AM

How do you poker stove hand ranges? Can you give me an i.e.? It wasn't registering my ranges...

ps...did you go to cornell?, or do you live in fiji? possibly both?

Cornell Fiji · #4 07-22-2007, 12:52 AM

www.pokerstove.com

download the free software

open up the window. If you think his range is 22-AA,A2-AK,K2-KQ,67s,78s (not that this is the range here) you write it as 22+,A2+,K2+,67s,78s (don't put spaces between the hands. YOu could also click on the tab that says 'hand 1' and pick the hands out yourself or you can use the slider bar to select something like top 20%.

(note: I dont have pokerstove on this computer so I might be slightly off but its not too hard to figure out)

I went to Cornell and was in a fraternity named Fiji (Phi Gamma Delta.)

dmoneymills · #5 07-22-2007, 09:54 PM

My friend posted this thread for me after I busted out of this tournament. I made the call with A8o, he had AJo and he held on to win, I was crippled and then busted soon after. At the time my reasoning was that he had a huge range being heads up in the blinds, with only an M of like 2.5. If I won this pot, it would put me in a nice spot not only to cash but have some control at my table. I was getting a low and felt this was a great chance for me. Afterwards, it's easy to say man I shouldn't have done that since I lost... but I did the calculations and it was pretty much 45%/55%... better than the given pot odds.