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  1. #1

    Default Was this a good move?

    Was watching this guy play, consistent winner over thousands of tourneys, a supernova elite on PS. Trying to assess if his move was good here:

    PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 555 Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (9 handed)

    BB (t1645)
    UTG (t945)
    UTG+1 (t1575)
    MP1 (t1470)
    MP2 (t1430)
    MP3 (t1325)
    CO (t1940)
    Button (Guy in question, AKo) (t1275)
    SB (t1895)

    Preflop:
    1 fold, UTG+1 bets t200, 2 folds, MP3 raises to t1325 (All-In), 1 fold, Button (AKo) calls t1275 (All-In), 2 folds, UTG+1 calls t1125

    Flop: (t4075) J, 10, K (3 players, 2 all-in)

    Turn: (t4075) Q (3 players, 2 all-in)

    River: (t4075) 6 (3 players, 2 all-in)

    Total pot: t4075

    He won the pot with a straight, just not sure if his all-in was reasonable at this stage of the sng following an all-in reraise...

    Please comment, would love to see your opinions!
    Cheers
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    I don't like it but maybe he had some kind of a read that MP3 shoves lite.

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    It comes down to statistics on the original raiser and the shove, and also on the buy in for the Sng


  4. #4
    MP3 is rarely mucking about with a bad hand here since UTG has a bad stack size to be min-raising with UTG. UTG's mostly likely range is QQ+ and some bluffs, since some players are now min-raising UTG with weak hands. However, I think his range is weighed towards strong hands. AK, AQ are possibilities, but normally UTG will shove these to max FE and avoid bad post-flop spots OOP.

    MP3 should realise all this but the reality is he will often turn up with hands like 88 or 99 here. I wouldn't expect to see anything much weaker than that and AQ or AK. Given two quite strong ranges, Hero should fold but falls in love with AK. I see this all the time. He has already made up his mind to shove once he sees UTG MR .... fails to adjust IMO.
    Last edited by Nakamura; 03-29-2011 at 04:48 PM.

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