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05-20-2013 , 12:04 PM
PokerStars - Hold'em Tournament - $10/20 Blinds - 2 Players
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Samar4eg (BB): $380
GlassOfBeer (BTN): $620

Pre-flop:
GlassOfBeer raises to $40, Samar4eg raises to $83, GlassOfBeer raises to $620 and is all-in, Samar4eg calls $297 and is all-in, GlassOfBeer returns $240

Flop: ($790) 8 Q 4 (2 Players)

Turn: ($790) 2 (2 Players)

River: ($790) 9 (2 Players)

Samar4eg Showed 8 8
GlassOfBeer Showed J K
Samar4eg wins $760 with three of a kind, Eights

This hand made to think about playing 88-99 from the big blind. How do you guys play them?

And what do you consider as the optimal play?

This is obviously a game between two regs, but anyways, I want to hear your thoughts.
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05-20-2013 , 12:37 PM
imo which may or may not be that valid... i would say 88 and 99 dont play that great postflop so really you are wanting to get it in pre, so you are looking at either a jam or 3 bet. Readless id probably go with a jam, but dependent on history with opponent and gameflow sometimes a 3 bet may feel like a better way to perhaps induce some spew
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05-20-2013 , 12:55 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Axif

This hand made to think about playing 88-99 from the big blind. How do you guys play them?

And what do you consider as the optimal play?
i 3bet/call pretty much always 15bb+deep, probably just jam vs fishes who call 3bets super light, like if you can get calls from 76s there's no reason to 3bet/call but thats only if you have reads. I'm not sure if thats optimal or not, I just play like that and seems like Im doing ok
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05-20-2013 , 05:34 PM
imo against bad players jamming is better because the range of hands they are flatting you with sucks to face postflop and you are not inducing enough 4bet jams from low Ax to justify making it smaller, i.e. their stacking off range is not really wider when you 3bet non all in. 99 is the cutoff imo.
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05-20-2013 , 05:43 PM
on hypers when you loose almost half your stack they will put pressure on you and put you all in with a wide range ! so you have to fight back and reshove with any brodways i will say any pp almost will be enough
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05-20-2013 , 07:23 PM
jam against randoms. the two players involved in the hand have immense history on each other, which then provides argument for 3betting nai
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