Trust your reads.

[DoGGz]

Middle of the tourny. I had made steals throughout the table. One Ace high bluff was shown because a shortstack was AI for the big blind. Twice in a row I'd had.


It comes to me and here is how I play it out in my head.

I am going to raise, and he is going AI no matter his cards because he thinks I'm stealing. I have better then average hand and I will call.

If I fold I'm shortstacked, if I call and lose I'm shortstacked, if I call and win I have room to move deep into the money...

My best play of the day (so far :P)

***** Hand History for Game 2255027212 *****
NL Hold'em Trny:13360635 Level:6 Blinds (75/150) - Tuesday, June 21, 06:05:23 EDT 2005
Table $8,000 Guaranteed(373253) Table #8 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 3: mMagic_Cards ( $2465 )
Seat 4: gmoney52 ( $1460 )
Seat 5: Snowcrash12 ( $5245 )
Seat 6: hughanty ( $1405 )
Seat 8: bluesky54 ( $9627 )
Seat 10: skidbo ( $6695 )
Seat 1: MonkeyCoR ( $5070 )
Seat 2: royalmax ( $2125 )
Seat 9: Icknar ( $305 )
Trny:13360635 Level:6
Blinds (75/150)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to mMagic_Cards [ Jd Qh ]
Snowcrash12 folds.
hughanty folds.
bluesky54 folds.
Icknar folds.
skidbo folds.
MonkeyCoR folds.
royalmax folds.
mMagic_Cards raises [275].
gmoney52 is all-In [1310]
mMagic_Cards calls [1110].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Tc, Ks, 9s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5s ]
mMagic_Cards shows [ Jd, Qh ] a straight, nine to king.
gmoney52 shows [ Th, 7h ] two pairs, tens and fives.
mMagic_Cards wins 2920 chips from the main pot with a straight, nine to king.
Player gmoney52 finished in 152 place
gmoney52 has left the table.

gmoney52: lol wow, quite the call
mMagic_Cards: quite the player :P
gmoney52: lol

[Wet_DreaMer]

How do you call that?
If he has a K he is ahead.

Never call anything with QJo.

[DWDuck]

Meh. You let a likely coinflip decide your tourny here. I'd way rather see a push instead of a raise in this situation. If you're going to call a push anyways, let him do the deciding. You say "trust your reads", but he would have made the same play if he actually had a hand too. Give yourself two ways of winning the hand and push.

Darkwing

[ender555]

I don't agree with the play but it's nice it worked out for you. You have decent chip position and no reason to force a decision for half your stack with Q high. So many hands are better than that you're just a bit over average. I think Q7 is "average" hand.

Much better to push a blind steal with QJ then to call someone re - stealing.

[DoGGz]

Well, when it is obvous he is moving with anything I'll do this all day.