Tough situation - 4-bet bluff or not ?
02-22-2011
, 01:29 AM
Guys, this one is taken from a $50 SNG where I was the second in chips (6 out of 9 players remained).
Blinds: t60/t120
Hero: t2,520
Villain: t3,520 - biggest stack of the table
The villain seemed a really fine player, but very aggressive (I've seen him making even 5x raises preflop several times - don't know why...).
My table image was that of an aggressive player also because I raised preflop a lot of hands lately (but due to very good cards like 99, AQ...) and never got called.
The only possible 'mistake' I've spotted on the villain was about 2 rounds earlier when I shoved UTG (8-handed, blinds 50/100) with AT off - a not so smart play, but I did it because I had only 840 chips, blinds were pretty high and I was the shortest-stack of the table, so on average I don't think it was so bad. The villain only called my shove as the big stack from 3rd position with 88 - i disregard his play here although he read well the situation his hand I think is to weak to call me here. But that's arguable...
Anyway, in this tough hand everyone folded to me on the button, I held A
2 and raised 3x to 360. SB with a smaller but decent stack folds and the villain in the BB makes a small re-raise to 720.
Now I put him on one of 3 possible holdings, in this specific order:
1. a hand too weak to call but good enough to make a stand against my possible steal: 22-66, possibly 77, suited medium Aces or some face cards T+
2. a bluff with a good-looking but weak hand: suited connectors like J
9 or some suited Kings like K
6
3. a monster hand, but the only possible monsters in this spot would be AA or KK, with AA less likely caz I already have one A
On average against his range and his aggressive reputation and with the knowing that I could hurt him a lot even if he had me covered I decided that the best play here would be to 4-bet all in as a bluff for t2520 (I still have some sort of hand if I'm getting called and he's not by no mean pot-commited)
One last thing: calling could be an option because of the pot odds, better than 3:1 and my position but then the pot will become t1,500 and I'm only gonna have t1,800 and if I catch a piece of the flop I could get pot-commited.
Q1: Was my judgement right given the situation ?
Q2: Was my move the right one to make ?
Thanks for the help and sorry for the long post
Blinds: t60/t120
Hero: t2,520
Villain: t3,520 - biggest stack of the table
The villain seemed a really fine player, but very aggressive (I've seen him making even 5x raises preflop several times - don't know why...).
My table image was that of an aggressive player also because I raised preflop a lot of hands lately (but due to very good cards like 99, AQ...) and never got called.
The only possible 'mistake' I've spotted on the villain was about 2 rounds earlier when I shoved UTG (8-handed, blinds 50/100) with AT off - a not so smart play, but I did it because I had only 840 chips, blinds were pretty high and I was the shortest-stack of the table, so on average I don't think it was so bad. The villain only called my shove as the big stack from 3rd position with 88 - i disregard his play here although he read well the situation his hand I think is to weak to call me here. But that's arguable...
Anyway, in this tough hand everyone folded to me on the button, I held A
2 and raised 3x to 360. SB with a smaller but decent stack folds and the villain in the BB makes a small re-raise to 720.Now I put him on one of 3 possible holdings, in this specific order:
1. a hand too weak to call but good enough to make a stand against my possible steal: 22-66, possibly 77, suited medium Aces or some face cards T+
2. a bluff with a good-looking but weak hand: suited connectors like J
9 or some suited Kings like K63. a monster hand, but the only possible monsters in this spot would be AA or KK, with AA less likely caz I already have one A
On average against his range and his aggressive reputation and with the knowing that I could hurt him a lot even if he had me covered I decided that the best play here would be to 4-bet all in as a bluff for t2520 (I still have some sort of hand if I'm getting called and he's not by no mean pot-commited)
One last thing: calling could be an option because of the pot odds, better than 3:1 and my position but then the pot will become t1,500 and I'm only gonna have t1,800 and if I catch a piece of the flop I could get pot-commited.
Q1: Was my judgement right given the situation ?
Q2: Was my move the right one to make ?
Thanks for the help and sorry for the long post
Last edited by chojrak; 02-22-2011 at 01:46 AM.
02-22-2011
, 01:46 AM
