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Stars $11 rebuy mid tournament AK decission
We're in the money with around 280 players left of a mega field.
I am the table chip leader after playing aggressively on the bubble and two hands ago re-stealing a hi ranked players LP steal - so my table image is def. aggressive. I have no particular reads on villain - he is probably playing ABC poker. UTG (35BB) Hero (40BB) Preflop: Hero is LP with Ace[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. UTG raises to 3 BB, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, Hero raises to 9 BB, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, UTG insta-pushes, ??? There's approximately 46 BB in the pot, and it will cost me 26 BB to call giving me 1.77 : 1 on my chips. Of course I'm crippled if I lose. PokerStove gives me 38.8% equity or 28 BB for my 26 BB against a range of AK, AA - QQ. ??? |
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Re: Stars $11 rebuy mid tournament AK decission
Well, you are getting the necessary equity to make a call here correct. With your pot odds, you only need to have ~36% equity, and you have slightly more than that.
I also think you can put JJ in his range, which will inmprove your equity slightly, making this a slightly easier call. |
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Re: Stars $11 rebuy mid tournament AK decission
his range is never that tight... and you're getting really good odds so call.
However, why dont you just call the raise PF with position against a big stack with a lot to win if you pair your hand? much better.. resteal against small stacks, try to break the big ones. |
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Re: Stars $11 rebuy mid tournament AK decission
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his range is never that tight... and you're getting really good odds so call. However, why dont you just call the raise PF with position against a big stack with a lot to win if you pair your hand? much better.. resteal against small stacks, try to break the big ones. [/ QUOTE ] Because you can take down a nice pot preflop with that hand that will not improve on the majority of flops. AK is a powerhouse hand, and calling is wasting some of its POWER |
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Re: Stars $11 rebuy mid tournament AK decission
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However, why dont you just call the raise PF with position against a big stack with a lot to win if you pair your hand? [/ QUOTE ] I'm really not interested in seeing a flop with AK in a multi-way pot. Re-raising ensures me I'm HU ... or, if one of the blinds push and OR does as well, I can at least consider a fold. [ QUOTE ] much better... resteal against small stacks, try to break the big ones. [/ QUOTE ] The big stacks have much more to lose than the small ones, and will be much more likely to fold to a re-raise. A small stack with 12 BB is probably not folding any pair 88 or better to a re-raise here. |
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