Daily Hand Quiz

Voted fold. Hand is too weak to try and make a play here. The BB and Player A are the low stacks and may be in a battle of the blinds next hand.

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You get amazing odds. BB can never fold. your odds are 3:1.
If you loose you stay third and vilian A has to call next hand.
So take the flip and Queen high can be good enough.

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hand is weakish but the antes turn it to a call for me…

I though about it this way….
if you CALL
and win the stacks are Hero = 1585, 890, 525
and lose the stacks are Hero = 615, 890, 525, 970

if you fold:
stacks are Hero = 870, 890, 525, 715

And *with stacks and blinds the size they are* here I don’t see much difference in terms of expected tournament payoff between calling/losing and folding… therefore call

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Marty Reply:
September 9th, 2009 at 3:24 am

Opps.. i didn’t mean call – I mean’t raise… don’t see any difference between the 2 due to (obvious?) pot commitment

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Raise. We don’t have enough chips to fold our way into the top 2, and we triple up villain by folding. We’re 47% against ATC, which is plenty good enough with the blinds so big. Gotta take the chance to knock him out for the extra 350.

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Q 2 looks like a fine hand here. Beats most of the hands he can have, and he’s super short, so losing isn’t the end of the world. Also, might get you called with a better hand later on.

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