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03-11-2019 , 05:44 AM

invet

journeyman

Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 335

Hello everybody!!! I hope this is the right section to post. Last night I reached my first final table 0.55$(Bigger on Pokerstars). Things were going reallly good and I thought that I really had a chance to win it (around 300$ for 1st).But got eliminated 5th and maybe it was entirely my fault. I want to know what do you think.

PokerStars, $0.49 + $0.06 - Hold'em No Limit - 50,000/100,000 (10,000 ante) - 5 players
Hand delivered by Upswing Poker

UTG: 9,306,872 (93 bb)
CO: 3,193,033 (32 bb)
BU: 6,013,532 (60 bb)
SB (Hero): 1,999,321 (20 bb)
BB: 3,722,242 (37 bb)

Pre-Flop: (200,000) Hero is SB with J♠ T♦
3 players fold, Hero raises to 300,000, BB calls 200,000

Flop: (650,000) J♥ 5♥ 7♦ (2 players)
Hero bets 350,000, BB raises to 700,000, Hero raises to 1,689,321 (all-in), BB calls 989,321

I have seen this opp to open raise with Q8s and then call AI.

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03-11-2019 , 07:05 AM

sixfour

should be called sevenfour

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 75,201

Not sure on the sizings but that'd be nitpicking, once you've flopped top pair BvB this shallow I'm felting it, sorry he hit his flush/straight/two pair

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03-11-2019 , 07:50 AM

madlex

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 17,929

It’s 5 handed and you have 20 big blinds out of a total of 242. That’s a little over 8%.

That’s not necessarily a position you want to be in if you’re playing for first. I think there are options to play the hand differently, for example sizing both preflop and on the flop, but as played with TP you’re not folding after investing 1/3 of your stack.

Depending on villain’s aggressiveness, I think check/shove flop might be an alternative? But I haven’t done any math on that, so that’s a 100% feel-based thought that might be totally off base.

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03-11-2019 , 08:42 AM

invet

journeyman

Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 335

He hit two pairs(j5)

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03-11-2019 , 12:36 PM

pokerhsmtt

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2018 Posts: 236

ask him in chat if he has top pair or better.
online is like playing the slots cause theres less information making it a more of a game of chance.

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with TP you’re not folding after investing 1/3 of your stack.

you still have 2/3s of your stack 14BBs if you fold. again playing online your in the dark with your 88 preflop against a player that opens. even playing live your probably in a coinflip or miles behind situation. at least live you can find out if your in a coinflip or fold situation.

Last edited by pokerhsmtt; 03-11-2019 at 12:46 PM.

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03-11-2019 , 12:45 PM

Lozgod

old hand

Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 1,562

I like jamming preflop. The jam eliminates any tough decisions post flop and you have fold equity vs BB. You pick up a BB+blinds and may get called by a hand you dominate (like J5) or sometimes it's vice versa and BB woke up with a hand but that's poker. Tough spot as played.

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03-17-2019 , 10:45 AM

takeitAll

centurion

Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 150

Push PF. As Lozgod said.

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03-17-2019 , 03:09 PM

antialias

grinder

Join Date: May 2018 Posts: 591

BB saw you invest over 1/3 of your stack on the flop, so he has to assume you're never folding.
That means his reraise is never a bluff but TPTK or better.
(At this point you might even have gotten away from the hand)

If I'd want to go with such a (mediocre) hand then I'd shove preflop.

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