bigger 8,8$ mid stage : utg open very tight player, cc very tight player, ak bb
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bigger 8,8$ mid stage : utg open very tight player, cc very tight player, ak bb
Hi, I'm quite new here. I hope the HH looks normal in this post:
***** Hand History for Game 101097384438 ***** (Poker
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Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, July 07, 03:38:33
ET 2013
Table 812011337 236 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: GAMZA1987 ( 32958 )
Seat 2: pench1974 ( 62926 )
Seat 3: orzechinho19 ( 55072 )
Seat 4: hanulex ( 141092 )
Seat 5: What0ver9000 ( 151214 )
Seat 6: Eye II Eye ( 39334 )
Seat 7: heeralberto ( 70695 )
Seat 8: thogi ( 22794 )
Seat 9: Rakeebroke10 ( 56471 )
GAMZA1987 posts ante of [200].
pench1974 posts ante of [200].
orzechinho19 posts ante of [200].
hanulex posts ante of [200].
What0ver9000 posts ante of [200].
Eye II Eye posts ante of [200].
heeralberto posts ante of [200].
thogi posts ante of [200].
Rakeebroke10 posts ante of [200].
Eye II Eye posts small blind [800].
heeralberto posts big blind [1600].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to heeralberto [
As Kd ]
thogi folds
Rakeebroke10 raises [3200]
GAMZA1987 folds
pench1974 folds
orzechinho19 calls [3200]
hanulex folds
What0ver9000 folds
Eye II Eye folds
Heeralberto
The utg opener has tried to play no hands, 0-0 over 26 hands, the coldcaller is 16-15 with 6% 3b over 63 hands.
I usually like to play ak for stacks, but here I opt for a call preflop, hope to flop equity and fold otherwise, is this optimal? 3betting and getting it in vs these 2 is not optimal imo and 3b folding also doesn't make any sense
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Yeah, flatting AKo here seems pretty okay for the exact reasons you said.
3b/fold is horrible. 3b/get it in is really meh.
At least by flatting we can keep a dominated hand like AQ or KQ in the mix and maybe extract a lot of chips if we hit a pair because no one will ever put us on the hand we have.
I like flatting too for the exact same reasons as Tom M mentions, we keep the hands we're dominating in, and I think that's a big part of their range. I want to quickly address 3b/getting it in though, as I see some arguments for doing so. We have a pretty easy squeeze opportunity and by squeezing we can easily look like we're trying to protect our blinds, but this will only work if the opponenents is somewhat thinking players and this is not always the case in $8.8 MTT's. So to sum up, I like flatting and playing the hand postflop.
I would prefer to 3 bet AK and take this pot down now, as we are out of position. And i am not a big fan of playing out of position, the caller does know were his raise button is so i think we get a fold from him and from the opener also, seems he is very tight so 0 from 26 leads me to think we can give him every reason to fold. With a call against 2 others i really do not feel good about AK first to act not unless we crush the flop, so i prefer just trying to add 10% to my stack .
And if we get 4 bet shoved on, how good do we feel? We're probably looking at something like TT/JJ+ and AQs+
Not the greatest range in the world to be in against.
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