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3 hands from the SPT
In true Harrington style, 3 of my hands, with several ways to play them.
Let me know what you would've done in the situation and I'll post in a few days what I did and what actually happened.
I might even name & shame the villains!
Hand 1
Position - SB
300/600 50 - 9 handed
Stack around 6000
Play is folded around to you in the small blind. You have pocket 2s. The Big Blind has made some big hands, busting out a couple of people and has around 25k in chips.
a) Fold - only 300 invested in the hand, pocket 2s are racing against everything except X-2.
b) Smooth call - try to see a flop cheaply and bail if it looks bad.
c) Small Raise - Around 1500. Big Blind has to put 900 in to win 2550.
d) Big Raise - Around 2400. Blind Blind has to put 1800 in to win 3450.
e) Push All-In - Only 10BB left - only 1 person to get through.
Hand 2
Position - BB
300/600 50 - 8 handed
Stack around 4000
Play is folded around to the small blind. He's been playing well, and it's a name you recognise from online play. He has a good reputation and he pushes all-in. You look down to see pocket 4s, there's about 3 minutes to the next level
a) Fold - pocket 4s isn't beating much, so it's going to be a race at best, hang on for the button push when the blinds go up.
b) Call - Yes, it's a race, but win and you'll be back up to average size chipstack and 10BB.
Hand 3
Position - 2 off button
400/800 100 - 9 handed
Stack around 3000
A deadstack came to the table and has 700 (all-in) in the big blind. There has been 1 smooth call from UTG+1. He was all-in not long ago and only seems to have around 5k in chips left. You look down to see K7. There's 2800 in the pot, so the raiser would probably be committed to call your all-in. (Another 2000 to win 6000)
a) Fold - that smooth call from UTG+1 with <10BB seems a bit fishy to me - could be looking at a big hand.
b) Call - hope that the 3 players after you don't raise and see what happens on the flop.
c) Push All-In - Hope the smooth call meant a small pocket pair, giving you 2 overcards.
Let me know what you would've done in the situation and I'll post in a few days what I did and what actually happened.
I might even name & shame the villains!
Hand 1
Position - SB
300/600 50 - 9 handed
Stack around 6000
Play is folded around to you in the small blind. You have pocket 2s. The Big Blind has made some big hands, busting out a couple of people and has around 25k in chips.
a) Fold - only 300 invested in the hand, pocket 2s are racing against everything except X-2.
b) Smooth call - try to see a flop cheaply and bail if it looks bad.
c) Small Raise - Around 1500. Big Blind has to put 900 in to win 2550.
d) Big Raise - Around 2400. Blind Blind has to put 1800 in to win 3450.
e) Push All-In - Only 10BB left - only 1 person to get through.
Hand 2
Position - BB
300/600 50 - 8 handed
Stack around 4000
Play is folded around to the small blind. He's been playing well, and it's a name you recognise from online play. He has a good reputation and he pushes all-in. You look down to see pocket 4s, there's about 3 minutes to the next level
a) Fold - pocket 4s isn't beating much, so it's going to be a race at best, hang on for the button push when the blinds go up.
b) Call - Yes, it's a race, but win and you'll be back up to average size chipstack and 10BB.
Hand 3
Position - 2 off button
400/800 100 - 9 handed
Stack around 3000
A deadstack came to the table and has 700 (all-in) in the big blind. There has been 1 smooth call from UTG+1. He was all-in not long ago and only seems to have around 5k in chips left. You look down to see K7. There's 2800 in the pot, so the raiser would probably be committed to call your all-in. (Another 2000 to win 6000)
a) Fold - that smooth call from UTG+1 with <10BB seems a bit fishy to me - could be looking at a big hand.
b) Call - hope that the 3 players after you don't raise and see what happens on the flop.
c) Push All-In - Hope the smooth call meant a small pocket pair, giving you 2 overcards.
Comments
D) and if called shove any flop, If rrAI, call. When a 10BB stack just opens a pot instead of shoving, it has more fold equity. Since its basically an all-in (ie were never not getting all our chips in with this hand), pick the actiont hat gets out opponents to fold the most (as a side note you prove your own point in hand 3 when alarm bells go off when <10BB stack limps.
Hand 2
cant say. Depends entirely on the stack sizes/player tendancies to your immediate left. In a vaccum I call.
Hand 3
Fold.
I'm thrilled that I was on such a good table to start with - especially also with familiar names as Maverick and yourself (and no doubt others whose nametags were too far away to read)
Just seemed to go from relatively comfortable to out in the space of an orbit and was wondering if I was making the right play at the wrong time or the wrong play at the right time, or just plain bad plays.
I am not saying that this is correct, or even factually correct, but it is how I would have looked at it from your seat. Interested in all other views of course. Pleasure to meet you.
Hand 2 : call
Hand 3 : fold