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Did I make the right play?
Posted On: 04/19/2008 06:40:22

In a $120 buy-in tourney with the top seven getting a ticket to a 100 grand tourney and cash payout to 30th, there are 150 total entries and the tourney is down to 40 people. Sitting in early position I get dealt AA. Blinds are 2000/4000 and I bump it up to 8000. Big blind folds and a mid position guy goes all in for 17,000. everyone folds and I had to decide whether to call or not. I folded because it was too close to the money to take a chance to double them up and leave myself with only 3000 in chips. What would you do? Is there a better way I should have played instead of the raise I made?



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From: USMCbulldogs
04/23/2008 15:10:12

Thanks for the opinion.....well said


 cadamsjr wrote:

well, from your post im assuming you held 28k in chips and with the best possible preflop hand you only raised the blinds 2x's? AA preflop is good for a 4 to 5 times the BB raise. If u had 28k in chips I may have went with a 12k or 16k raise. My biggest question I guess tho is.... How the hell could you fold AA preflop? Preflop you held the best hand and the worst case scenario was that they hit the other 2 aces in the deck and your at best a tie at the river. That big of a bet depending on thier position couldve been a steal seeing that you only raised it 2x's the BB anyhow, maybe you couldve put them on AK, KK, or QQ but either way you had them crushed.

Now, say the flop had came and it was something like KK8 and they go all in over the top on you I could see maybe laying down the AA due to them maybe having trip K's and you would only have and 8% chance to catch another A on the turn and a 4% on the river.

Just remember, AA preflop is always the best possible hand. However, the more people in the pot the less chance you have of them holding up. So raise it up to get those thinking of limping with weak K's Q's etc out of it fast. Heads up AA is huge against anything preflop. Not sure I can say that any other way.... that and im tired and probably rambling.....

Curtis



From: cadamsjr
04/23/2008 00:54:29

well, from your post im assuming you held 28k in chips and with the best possible preflop hand you only raised the blinds 2x's? AA preflop is good for a 4 to 5 times the BB raise. If u had 28k in chips I may have went with a 12k or 16k raise. My biggest question I guess tho is.... How the hell could you fold AA preflop? Preflop you held the best hand and the worst case scenario was that they hit the other 2 aces in the deck and your at best a tie at the river. That big of a bet depending on thier position couldve been a steal seeing that you only raised it 2x's the BB anyhow, maybe you couldve put them on AK, KK, or QQ but either way you had them crushed.

Now, say the flop had came and it was something like KK8 and they go all in over the top on you I could see maybe laying down the AA due to them maybe having trip K's and you would only have and 8% chance to catch another A on the turn and a 4% on the river.

Just remember, AA preflop is always the best possible hand. However, the more people in the pot the less chance you have of them holding up. So raise it up to get those thinking of limping with weak K's Q's etc out of it fast. Heads up AA is huge against anything preflop. Not sure I can say that any other way.... that and im tired and probably rambling.....

Curtis

From: PokerGob
04/23/2008 00:40:03

Wow that is a strange fold.  You started the hand with $28,000?  Raised to $8000 which was approximately 30% of you stack.  Then was on the Big Blind Next hand which represented 25% of your stack? If you had to fold there than the small blind represents 12.5% of your stack.  I am sorry dude, there is no nice way to say this, You had at worst 80/20 to win the hand and then if you wanted to coast into the money you could probably just sit out.   I couldn't imagine folding there.  Always play to win the whole tournament, instead of just trying to place in the money...You should post this blog in theunluckbox forum and see what people say.



Wow.


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