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Poker Teaser not by Jules
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Danny_DCB wrote
at 9:21 AM, Sunday March 1, 2009 EST
It's gonna be Danny's poker question this time. It's a hand that actually happened to me on GPokr a while ago (some unimportant details might be off) and I'd like to hear your opinions on what would you do in my position and why. So here it goes:
You're on a 9 ring table, 2,5k/5k blinds, cut-off position. It's folded to you except for one player from early position that called the BB. You look at your cards and see 6s 6h and raise to 15k. Button, SB and BB fold, the previous caller calls your bet. You both have roughly 500k chips. Flop brings Ac 6d Jh. Your opponent checks and you decide to slow play and check too. Turn is Js, giving you a full house. You both check again. River is 2c. Your opponent bets 60k into the 37,5k pot. You've seen him bet lots of chips on the river frequently so it's not too surprising. It's actually one of the reasons why you slow played this game. You raise him to 150k, just enough for him to call in case he has an ace or jack in hand. However your opponent re-raises all in with his 425k stack. If you fold you'd lose about a third of your chips but if you call and lose you'd be back to the kiddies tables. What would you do and why? What cards do you think he has? |
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Danny_DCB wrote
at 9:35 AM, Sunday March 1, 2009 EST I almost forgot - your image is tight, his image is tight aggressive.
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link4 wrote
at 10:54 AM, Sunday March 1, 2009 EST hmm ok i would have put him on trips J
maybe he had sth like J9 or maybe 22 thats why he checked till river... because if he had AJ or so he would have raised the flop so i think u would have:) only my opinion:D |
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lolza wrote
at 1:06 PM, Sunday March 1, 2009 EST the player is winner robot he's bluffing
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JulesDogg wrote
at 1:51 PM, Sunday March 1, 2009 EST Given that we know the player is overly aggressive and prone to overbetting I would shove it all in. If he's on AJ then unlucky but a loose player could be on any J or even any Ace. His overbet on the river looks like he wants to win it without a showdown, the re-raise is either 'the nuts' or pride/ego. Call him the odds are too good to let it go.
Danny, what actually happened? Did you lay it down? |
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Danny_DCB wrote
at 11:57 AM, Monday March 2, 2009 EST What happened is that I called. I thought him to have a jack with a high kicker, presumably KJ or something like that. Well one of his cards indeed was a jack. But the other one was a six which means he had jacks full of sixes and he won the pot.
I usually analyze all my losses, I try to figure out whether it was just bad luck (and therefore no reason to bother with it) or bad play (and how could I improve so it won't happen again). My head says I played it well but there's that little worm of doubt that points out the fact that in the moment of all in I was already dead. A very valid fact. Thanks for your opinions though, you helped me ease my mind. |
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JulesDogg wrote
at 12:36 PM, Monday March 2, 2009 EST Danny, I don't think many would have got away from that. I woulda had him on AJ, KJ, QJ or JT. Hands that beat you are AA, JJ, AJ, J6. I woulda thought you'd be re-raised pre-flop if the villain had AA or JJ, so he ain't got those, can't put him on J6 cos it belongs in the muck. I think your call was fine as only 1 of the 4 hands he might be playing will beat you. As it turned out the hand that should of folded pf sucked out. I hate slow play though and most of the time would bet the flop though it wouldn't have mattered, all the chips had to go in at some point.
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