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[Squeak2k2]

I'll post my reasoning for my play right below the hand details.

***** Hand History for Game 2123271672 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:12628455 Level:2 Blinds(15/30) - Sunday, May 29, 09:50:38 EDT 2005
Table Table 35321 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 6: yeguakid ( $655 )
Seat 5: IRISH7231 ( $895 )
Seat 7: JohnD226 ( $725 )
Seat 3: bonhomie ( $625 )
Seat 9: meybed ( $615 )
Seat 2: twig1 ( $995 )
Seat 1: Squeak2k2 ( $1220 )
Seat 4: onelegtemple ( $1755 )
Seat 10: Rabatten ( $515 )
Trny:12628455 Level:2
Blinds(15/30)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Squeak2k2 [ 9d Jd ]
yeguakid raises [60].
JohnD226 folds.
meybed folds.
Rabatten folds.
Squeak2k2 calls [60].
twig1 folds.
bonhomie folds.
onelegtemple folds.
IRISH7231 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8h, Ad, 5d ]
yeguakid bets [30].
Squeak2k2 calls [30].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9h ]
yeguakid bets [150].
Squeak2k2 calls [150].
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
yeguakid bets [30].
Squeak2k2 is all-In [980]
yeguakid is all-In [385]
yeguakid shows [ Qs, As ] two pairs, aces and eights.
Squeak2k2 shows [ 9d, Jd ] a flush, ace high.
Squeak2k2 wins 565 chips from side pot #1 with a flush, ace high.
Squeak2k2 wins 1355 chips from the main pot with a flush, ace high.
yeguakid finished in ninth place.
yeguakid has left the table.


Ok, my call PF. I was going to limp in with that hand anyways, and the table was full of either very tight or very passive players. The min raise gave me a feeling I could make a pretty profitable draw.

The flop was easy for me. He bet and I knew he had an Ace. I saw him bet an AJ very weak like this just a few hands before. So I called because I didn't want to give him a chance to reraise.

The turn I think I did the right move. If he didn't have A9 or AJ, I could hit any 9, J, or diamond to win. And I expected to win his entire chip stack if I hit my draw on top of that.

The river was easy for me. I knew he had an Ace, and that he would call, not raise, anything with his pair.

Is anything wrong here?

Btw.... I just busted out of that SnG as I was typing this. My AA got cracked on the river by KK.....

***** Hand History for Game 2123289146 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:12628455 Level:3 Blinds(25/50) - Sunday, May 29, 09:58:47 EDT 2005
Table Table 35321 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 1: Squeak2k2 ( $1995 )
Seat 2: twig1 ( $782 )
Seat 3: bonhomie ( $705 )
Seat 4: onelegtemple ( $1665 )
Seat 5: IRISH7231 ( $70 )
Seat 7: JohnD226 ( $683 )
Seat 9: meybed ( $265 )
Seat 10: Rabatten ( $1835 )
Trny:12628455 Level:3
Blinds(25/50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Squeak2k2 [ As Ah ]
Rabatten raises [150].
Squeak2k2 raises [425].
twig1 folds.
bonhomie folds.
onelegtemple folds.
IRISH7231 folds.
JohnD226 folds.
meybed folds.
Rabatten is all-In [1685]
Squeak2k2 calls [1410].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, 4d, 7s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
Squeak2k2 shows [ As, Ah ] a pair of aces.
Rabatten shows [ Kc, Kh ] three of a kind, kings.
Rabatten wins 3745 chips from the main pot with three of a kind, kings.

[DimitriT]

Your first hand looks good. He blew his hand by trying to slow play his TP.
The second hand is a tough beat but you did the right thing and should keep doing it. I just took a beat on AA against KQ. He drew a couple of Qs. That's like a 3%.

Edit: on the first hand, alot of people would advocate a raise after the flop. You could have gone either way. There's something to be said for
aggression at this point. You may have gotten a free card out of it
or even a fold if he had a weaker hand. Your read of his weak lead
was excellent. Read Negreanu's articles on the weak lead at www.fullcontactpoker.com.

[gabe]

i dont like the first hand at all. you called a min raise from a stall stack with a suited gapper. thats bad. maybe if you and him were both big stacks, but that is not the case. if you hit great cards, you are not going to make enough to be profitable. also, the river allin-raise isn't very good. he did call and you took all his chips, but you will not get a call there from a good player. learn to raise an amount that you think the other person will call instead of just going allin with a good hand.

the 2nd hand is just a bad beat. don't post them here anymore.

[DimitriT]

i dont like the first hand at all. you called a min raise from a stall stack with a suited gapper. thats bad.

With position and with a drawing hand I will make this call against
that player. The stacks were close enough.

Edit: woops. I thought your opp was big stack. Sorry I misread the hand. What gabe said.

First hand:
1. Fold preflop. When a short stack minraises UTG it is never good to be getting involved with a mediocre hand.
2. Fold the turn.

Second hand is standard.

[Squeak2k2]

"i dont like the first hand at all. you called a min raise from a stall stack with a suited gapper. thats bad. maybe if you and him were both big stacks, but that is not the case."

He was a pretty unaggressive person. I was pretty sure if he hit his hand, he would try to let me bet into him.

" also, the river allin-raise isn't very good. he did call and you took all his chips, but you will not get a call there from a good player."

Well of course I know that. But he wasn't a good player. I would never do this type of move against someone I thought was a decent player.

" learn to raise an amount that you think the other person will call instead of just going allin with a good hand."

I knew he had an ace, so I knew he would call for all his chips.

"the 2nd hand is just a bad beat. don't post them here anymore."

I didn't post it to complain. I just thought it was a funny thing to happen while making this topic.

[Bmxicle]

You are chasing on the first hand, assuming you could get his entire stack you were getting 4.8 to 1, and it is reasonable to assume that you would get it because he was pot comitted. However you only had a 5.22 to 1 chance to hit your flush, which is -EV. Its often incorrect to draw with odds in tourneys, its even worse to draw without odds.

Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

"i dont like the first hand at all. you called a min raise from a stall stack with a suited gapper. thats bad. maybe if you and him were both big stacks, but that is not the case."

He was a pretty unaggressive person. I was pretty sure if he hit his hand, he would try to let me bet into him.

Well if he is passive, why are you calling him with mediocre hands when he does raise preflop? You have to assume that if he is raising, you are beat.

[TLR]

The preflop call is doubtful at best
The flop play is OK
On the turn If your read is correct you have 14 outs (9 diamonds + 2 9's + 3 J), assuming of course he does not have A9, AJ.
So on the turn you had to call a 150 bet to a 295 pot, with the assumption that you can another 385, the pot odds look okay under those assumptions, but those are very optimistic assumptions, I would fold it on the turn