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Sunday Million, though spot prebubble Sunday Million, though spot prebubble

09-30-2008 , 10:28 AM
So i got in this i thought a little, well maybe not tricky, but more meh spot near the bubble in this weeks SM.

I(hero) have been playing extremly tight, up to this point in the tournament.. Villain, has been on the table about 2 orbits or so, and not been out of line previous.

Preflop thoughts:
I pick up A9o i MP and though it was a good time to start stealin some chips, and using my upbuilded tight image at the table.

Postflop thoughts:
Villain donks out under halfpot bet, i now have top top and just raises to get him out and take it down easily.
But suddenly villain comes over the top shoving in.

possible hands i thought through that he may have had: 33,44,99 not likely, if he had flopped a set there why doesnt he just smoothcall my bet and take a card of? Overpairs? not likely, TT+ does 3-bet preflop there form the BB
K9,Q9,J9...more likely, and i decide to call after using like 60 secs of my timebank
Poker Stars $200+$15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t750/t1500 Blinds - 9 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

Villain (BB): t54160
stacksanchez (UTG): t19041
magic032 (UTG+1): t42015
2007MacDaddy (UTG+2): t29563
Hero (MP1): t34046 Ad9c
roma1905 (MP2): t24610
Slik Chick (CO): t20700
Peppe10 (BTN): t25029
Wildman210 (SB): t27425

Pre Flop: (t3600)
3 folds, Hero raises to t3925, 4 folds, Villain calls t2425

Flop: (t9950)9h 3s 4c (2 players)
Villain bets t4400, Hero raises to t10935, Villain raises to t50085 all in, Hero calls t19036 all in

Turn: (t69892) 7c (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t69892) 4s (2 players - 2 are all in)

Spoiler:
Final Pot: t69892
Hero wins t69892
Villain mucked As3h
09-30-2008 , 10:45 AM
my comments without reading the spoiler: why would he ever shove a hand as weak as J9 or Q9 here? and your reasoning for raising the flop: "to take it down" is pretty off. why want you get a hand like J9 to fold? and do you think a better hand is folding? when he comes over the top then he most likely has AA,KK or a set. and his shove is pretty reasonable with these hands b/c if you have an overpair like TT or JJ with which you are willing to play for stacks as your flop raise indicates he might lose action when a Q,K,A will show up on the turn. this hand is butchered all around. 1) if you decide to loose up preflop to steal the blinds A9 is still not a very good candidate to do so. i would rather put a lot of other holdings into the range 2) once playing the A9 the flop raise is really bad, just call and re-eval on the turn.
09-30-2008 , 02:53 PM
sickofitall, hero has a 20 blind stack, raises A9, and flops 9 3 4. A9 becomes a very strong hand here given our stack size and the flop.

I would stack off on this flop, especially when he donks out. I think 9600ish + snap a shove on the flop is good
09-30-2008 , 03:02 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by w33ktight
sickofitall, hero has a 20 blind stack,
well, i could have saved some time if i just would have read the stack sizes correctly...****
09-30-2008 , 10:58 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by sickofitall
well, i could have saved some time if i just would have read the stack sizes correctly...****
yeah, I was reading your post and I was like yeah, wait... what? I think it's pretty standard to get it in here when you raise with a 20BB stack pre and flop top top. I didn't read the spoiler here either, but he could have some random straight draws here a lot imo.

      
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