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  1. #1
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    Default Wrong reraise from small blind?

    I guess I made some mistakes in this hand where I lost a lot of money, but I would appreciate opinions from others. Here is what I think I did wrong:
    - I should not reraise in small blind position
    - in the case i reraised, I should have reraised more
    - should I check or bet a smaller amount post-flop to save money when I missed the flop?

    ***** Hand History for Game 1982584016 *****
    100/200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 11814956) - Sun May 01 13:02:51 EDT 2005
    Table Table 11913 (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
    Total number of players : 6
    Seat 2: Evans08 (1445)
    Seat 4: TheRealAnnie (1935)
    Seat 5: vinthegin (690)
    Seat 7: djcavpk (615)
    Seat 8: themulletard (865)
    Seat 10: profit4me (2450)
    Evans08 posts small blind (50)
    TheRealAnnie posts big blind (100)
    ** Dealing down cards **
    Dealt to Evans08 [ Ac, Ks ]
    vinthegin folds.
    djcavpk folds.
    themulletard raises (200) to 200
    profit4me folds.
    Evans08 raises (250) to 300
    TheRealAnnie folds.
    themulletard calls (100)
    ** Dealing Flop ** : [ Jd, Qc, Qd ]
    Evans08 bets (300)
    themulletard raises (565) to 565
    themulletard is all-In.
    Evans08 folds.
    Creating Main Pot with $1565 with themulletard
    ** Summary **
    Main Pot: 1565
    Board: [ Jd Qc Qd ]
    Evans08 balance 845, lost 600 (folded)
    TheRealAnnie balance 1835, lost 100 (folded)
    vinthegin balance 690, didn't bet (folded)
    djcavpk balance 615, didn't bet (folded)
    themulletard balance 1565, bet 865, collected 1565, net +700
    profit4me balance 2450, didn't bet (folded)
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    If you're committed to playing this AK here with the blinds at 100, then you raise this to 500 or 600. YOu can't really call once the flop comes, so good play postflop.
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    Be careful about small stack min raises, most of the time, when players get down to 10xBB, they are in push fold mode. When they minraise they are looking for action. Whether or not this trickiness applies at lower levels sngs I dont know. No one has ever told me, but thats something to keep in mind.

    If you're goign to be playing ur AK preflop, and u really want to play it, you will have to reraise more aggresively than that. At least 3x what the original raiser put in, so you would want to reriase it to at least to 600.

    Now here's something you want to think about, if you raise to 600, and he calls, his stack is at 265. Which means that he is pot committed, and he will be playing his hand after the flop regardless. Furthermore if you raise to 600, that puts ur stack at 800, with the pot at 1350. Which means if you were to make a continuation bet on the flop, itd be ur whole stack. Which means if you make that original reraise to 600, you might be stuck on that hand. FURTHERMORE, if you were to reraise to 600 and then folded on the flop for various reasons, you would be down to less than 10xBB. Which isnt bad, but its not where you want to put ur stack.

    In light of that analysis, what do i do? I think the guys going to push post flop regardless. I dont kno what to make of that minraise. I push. Watch him turn over AA, and say FUCK!!!! MINRAISE!!!!! =D.

    Overall theres nothing wrong with what you did, but in the end you ended up trapping urself with this hand, and losing a bunch of ur stack.
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    I would go allin preflop. You only have 14bb and you are out of position postflop, so by pushing you can eliminate your positional disadvantage and you can guarantee you will see all 5 cards.
  6. #6
    Like I said bro, with that min raise. You would push, the guy would turn over QQ - AA and you would be like FUCK!!!! MINRAISE QQ???????? Then he would proceed to flop quad queens, and youd be like AAAAAAHHHHHH. PERMATILT. But yes pushing would probably do it.

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