So I won at my first table and in order to make the money you had to come in 3rd at the next table of 6. So situation is 5 players left and I'm UTG with 77. Hand history's below. I knew this was a pretty close decision (I've been faced with a lot of very close situations recently). But I honestly didn't think about it much and insta-called. My question is should I have thought about it (I think probably yes) and should I have called? I'll have one more question about this thing I downloaded called "Push Bot Rev." It'll be after the HH.

Some things about Villain:
in 31 total hands VPIP 32/Pre-Raise 6/Agg. Factor % 33, and he had not 3 bet until this hand in 14 opportunities. Of course a small sample size here...

Games Played Av. Profit Av. Stake Av. ROI Total Profit
1,331 -$1 $9 7% -$1,662
Ability/100 Network
57 FullTilt



Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS Event #3 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 5 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

SB: t4310 43.10 BBs
BB: t1735 17.35 BBs
Hero (UTG): t1565 15.65 BBs
CO: t1725 17.25 BBs
BTN: t2665 26.65 BBs

Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is UTG with 7 7
Hero raises to t275, 3 folds, BB raises to t1735 all in, Hero calls t1290 all in

Flop: (t3180) 4 J 5

Turn: (t3180) 6

River: (t3180) 6



I am interested in what you think before you look at the chart below. Was this right as played? And also, would you have done anything differently i.e. all in pre, raise size, fold, whatever.

Here's this chart that's supposed to help me know whether this was a fold or call. My question is does 77 (highlighted in yellow) mean I should call? What is the difference between the yellow (pot odds call) and green (Pot odds call that will return greater than x % roi?). What's x? I'm confused. Also, I guess this doesn't take into account mtt icm which also confuses the hell out of me. Basically I was two away from making a profit of 20 on a $30 investment. So the difference between the minimum cash and busting is $50. Thoughts?

don't be results oriented. nice call

I think I would have just shoved it to begin with.

Everyone always says that when I post a hand in which I lose... I mean, I guess maybe I wouldn't have posted had I won. But I at least would have marked the hand for review and looked it up on that chart above. Still wondering what the difference is between yellow and green on that thing. Obviously green is better - but need someone to explain the "pot odds is greater than "X" %...

shove or openfold. i'd shove.

this is an open fold pre

shove is best

I think fold is wrong. I mean, I just can't fold 77 with an M of 10 and 5 players to act. I just can't - not in my vocabulary. Pushing is interesting - and I see most are leaning toward that. I feel like it's really close. Still have some room with M of 10 though...

One thing my raise accomplishes is if the guy directly to my left had pushed I might have actually folded. And maybe even the guy to his left. They were very tight players. And they know I'm raising from UTG so I think I would have folded to their all-ins.

Interesting though. I guess I'll be considering a push next time.

pretty standard open shove

open shove is the way to go

no its not. shove