im just curious to what you guys have to say about this..... i know op is going to love it.....
sorry there isnt really a correct link to the article. if you want to read the full article. its on
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go to articles, dani stern "ansky" how to be a winner at high stakes
A few months ago, I made a fold with two kings preflop, that I think most players would say was very non-standard. I was playing live 5/10 at Turning Stone, and I had about 780 in my stack (I recently lost a pot and hadn’t reloaded). A very tight online player opened under the gun for 40. The table was 7 or 8 handed, and the player 2 to the left of the UTG player reraised to 110. I thought about either pushing or flat calling, and opted to flat call, because I thought there was a good chance they would be able to fold hands as good as QQ and AK there if I shoved. It was folded back to the under the gun player who reraised to 400 straight. The utg+2 player thought for roughly 15 seconds before folding, and it was back to me. At first, I almost instantly shoved my stack in, before I stopped to think. Effective stacks from my perspective were 78 big blinds, but both UTG and UTG+2 both had over 2500. This means that while I am playing only 78bb effective, the real decision should be made keeping in mind the 2 other players’ stacks, and how they would play 250bb deep. I thought for roughly 5 minutes, before realizing that UTG really had a range of KK+, and very rarely would make this play with anything worse. Why? Think about it. UTG+2 showed a LOT of strength by reraising an under the gun raise, and followed by my flat call for almost 15% of my stack, there is just no way he is making a move, so we can remove all semi bluffy hands. Can he have QQ or AK? Almost always the answer will be no. What hands can he expect to get value from if he repops those hands? He knows both me and UTG+2 will be folding EVERY worse hand, there is just no way we are sticking it in with JJ or AQ there. I folded the kings face up and the player was kind enough to show two aces.