February 11, 2012

Daily Hand Quiz

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Game type: Poker Stars Step 3 tournament
Stage of tourney: Bubble
Your image: n/a
Opponent’s image: A little tight
Your hand: K♦J♦

The setup: You’re on the bubble of this Step 3 ($82) single table tournament on PokerStars. 3rd-5th get to try Step 3 again and 1st and 2nd get a ticket to Step 4 ($215).

This hand you get KJs in the SB. The table folds to the short stack on the button, who shoves.

What’s your play?

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DHQ Staff says

Quiz courtesy of PartTimePoker.com


14 COMMENTS  (Jump to comment form)

vdorr


Думаю каждый человек в праве выбрать, то что ему больше по душе. Поэтому думаю вы сделали правильный выбор

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Gorbie


What he said…

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Richard P


+1

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Joel S.


Gotta love vdorr. More importantly, gotta love what the staff says!

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Beamer0266


LOL!! Yeah I fold and let someone that has a better hand make the call. The pot isn’t that inviting any way….

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Rowdy


Fold … Being tight he has a good chance of having an ace or pair here. I think folding here and getting your money in first on the bubble rather than calling is a better idea, and you have a good stack for stealing. If you lose this hand you won’t.

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Kid Canada


I agree with Gorbie. What vdorr said was short sweet and directly to the point.

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_CityBorn_


I shove. between my 100 in there and the bb’s likely dead 200, this tilts it to a “call” since raise wasnt an option. he could have a pair, but hes much more likely to have a pair 10 or lower then jj+ and he could be making this move with any number of hands that im beating or im only a slight dog. just because he’s a “little tight” doesnt mean he doesnt understand the basic idea of shoving on the button when youre shortstacked and its been folded to you. we have a good hand, gotta play the odds and try to bust him….we’ll still have 1650 even if we lose….but we’ll be in great shape if we win, busted bubble and a chip leader stack to go for that top 2 spot.

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John Kugelman


Fold. The blinds are too low to steal and you do not have good equity against the button’s shoving range.

Using good ol’ SnG Wiz once again, if we assign the BB a tight calling range of JJ+/AKo/AQs+ then this is a fold unless the button is shoving more than 45% of hands. At 45% we should push with a very tight 14% of hands: 55+, A8o+, A7s+, KQo, and KJs+. KJs just barely squeaks in as a shove.

300 in blinds is not enough dead money to risk gambling over. We are unlikely to be dominating the button and if the BB wakes up with a hand and overcalls we are in very bad shape for most of our chips. Without a good read that the button shoves super light and the BB is an uber-nit this is a clear fold.

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Tyler


You only have K high and to commit your stack is a pretty bad play, now if its KQ suited then you should make the call

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ranamuck


THe Button has 5 BB’s. His shove range in this spot into two random hands has to be very wide…To call you are only committing 40% of your stack. Unless a bad player and ultra tight….I’m calling you probally have the best hand more times than not.

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CIRCASURVIVE


all hail vdorr.

HE KNOWS ALL

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McCowish


Fold.

Our upside for winning this pot is no where near our downside if we lose:Reward for call isn’t worth the risk. We would go from 2nd-3rd position to dead last on the bubble. Blind structure and rotation speed would determine whether you or A would be under discernably more pressure if you call and lost.

While I would open with any two cards on the bubble with D’s stack size, our description of his image as a little tight doesn’t suggest he will. Whether D got blinded down or was crushed and his bet in position % would be useful information to have.

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clemsonrich


lol at tyler. what difference would it make if you had kq? still only king high. however, im gonna have to say i call this. it’s definitely a loose call, but i would say the reward outweighs the risk. i think that the chances of being dominated are much lower than this being a 55-45 situation. most of the time i think he’s going to turn over Ax or a smaller pair. if we win this pot we are most likely going to make it, and if not we are still only a couple steals away from being back where we were. besides, its only money, nits.

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