so ur UTG with 19k and KK at 100/200?

raise to 500

Way too deep stacked to take a chance on raising. Must limp.

lol

limp, then puke directed to the right towards BB so he gets sick leaves table (after now being thrown up on by two different people) declaring his hand dead and you win with no risk.

yeah, change my vote to this

forgot to mention while raking in your chips lean over and wipe your mouth on the sleeve of the guy to your left, showing him who's boss obv making it less likely he ever 3 bet bluffs you.

incorrect

facing a difficult decision whether to bluff raise, time was called and our hero may or may not have fallen asleep

Assani, well-thought out hand #1. I think the only misplayed street is river, which is a clear check-raise given it's pretty hard for villain to have the top end of his range checking both the flop and turn. He could also easily just be stabbing at the pot when a player pukes and folds out of turn and the rest of the field has basically conceded the hand. Since we lose to so much of his bluffing range though, raise > call.

I would usually open to 525 (randomizing optimally between 450 and 600 of course, averaging at 525), but I think we level our tablemates into 3bet bluffing a larger % of the time by opening to 500, letting them think that we are going after the dead small blind (100) for a cheaper price. This is definitely an exploitative move, so once our opponents catch us doing it, we must revert back to our randomized strategy...

Eager to hear the next part of the hand.

we have KK, we should do something to induce a bluff

Great, this is going to be a 2 year bad beat story about how he got drawn out on with KK. Nh, standard, wp, dont whine, sir.

Like psyduck said, it seems like the consensus is to raise to between 450-600. Does anyone have any specific reasoning for preferring a certain amount in that range? Or is this simply trivial and should we hurry on to the next step?

clearly it should be one of the palindromes within that range thats possible.

I suggest that once you have settled on a range (450-600) you then use some kind of appropriate randomisation process to choose a precise sizing from within that range. Perhaps if there's a gentleman at the table who appears to be in the 45-60 age range you could ask him for his exact age and then multiply it by 10. What is the smallest denomination chip you have available? Note that even though it will be clear to your opponents what you are doing, THEY STILL CAN'T EXPLOIT YOU... this is the essence of optimal play.

Amazing. I never felt the urge to post on this site until after spending the last 2 hours of my work week thoroughly enjoying every page of this thread. Thank you Assani for reeling me in. It would be interesting to do an analysis on this thread to see when reading this from the beginning how long it takes to realize that this hand never actually took place. Over/Under Guy pukes on the floor.

450 to 600 is a fairly large range. Tightening it up a bit is better. Remove some numbers from this range and proceed from there. I like randomizing between 450-480, 510-540, and 570-600.

An unexploitable Triple-range-merge is optimal in this situation, and KK is the perfect holding to pull this off. I know both live and online games and clearly this is Hero's best option.

I would say that back in the day, 3x BB was the standard raise, but today its 2.2. So it all depends on whether you consider yourself to be a visionary really.

I'd open the KK to 500-600 obviously. Although it's not important to open to more than 3x without antes, you're still relatively deep and I think one mistake that tournament players make is minraising too early when the PSR has a potential to be deep. Those small raises have a place late in tournaments with shallow stacks, but with >50 bb average stacks, I'd make a good healthy raise of 2.5-3 big blinds.

There's a good chance your opponents think you're on the quick steal because you're raising a dead small blind.

i look down i see two kings. i flat call

"So next time my boy raises it up and I look down at the 64 offsuit, I can call again, because he doesn't know whether I've got the Kings or the 64 this time"

Too deep to only open for a min-raise with KK. 500 is still too small, because people will think they can 3-bet you light. This might be good but oftentimes when we induce a 3-bet we fail to pick up on that one read that should make it painfully obvious that they have AA or even AK, and and Ace always hits a flop when you have KK. I'd raise to 800-ish, stacks are deep enough to warrant it imo. KQ is gonna call whether we make it 500 or 800 so might as well get the extra 300 chips and will also allow us to maximize value if we flop a set and they hit top pair.

I'd shove , what if an A flops ?

How sick did SB(BB from last hand) look? Do you think he's coming back soon or was there a lot of puking involved? I think your read on his digestion system is the biggest factor in deciding the initial raise size and setting up future dynamics

At the time it was definitely safe to assume that he won't be back for the current hand(bathroom wasn't super close and he looked pretty damn sick), so his SB is completely dead money. As it turns out, funny enough, he died in the bathroom from choking on his own puke and blinded off.

lol