May 22, 2012

Daily Hand Quiz

DailyHandQuiz

Game type: $50 1R 1A tournament, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Near bubble
Avg stack: 18k
Your image: Very aggressive
Opponent’s image: TAG
Your hand: K♣J♠

The setup: You’re nearing the bubble of a $50 1 rebuy 1, add on tournament on Full Tilt Poker. You’ve been playing very aggressively and have shown down a mix of strong and mediocre hands.

This hand you get KJo in the SB. The table folds to you. You make it a little over 3x. The BB thinks a bit and then shoves.

What’s your play?

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6 COMMENTS  (Jump to comment form)

black fair


Call.

KJ is actually quite strong relative to our perceived range here.

We need to call 8870 to win 12,620 so we only need about 40% equity in the pot to make this call.

I think its likely we have that here – we’ve got that against all aces other than AK/AJ (AQ obviously right on the margin) and all pockets other than AA,KK,QQ and JJ.

So I think given our percieved any two card aggressivenes in a blind vs blind scenario we definately have the equity to make the call given our comfortable stack.

The reward is worth the risk in my opinion.

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John Kugelman


This is a marginal situation. Folding and calling seem to me to be pretty equal options. We’re getting 3-to-2 pot odds so as long as we’re not dominated a call is fine.

I’m going with black fair on this one: I call. If we’re being very aggressive I don’t want the table to think they can start playing back at our raises. I’m willing to go to the mat to show that when we’re in a hand we mean business and your entire stack will be at risk.

Also KJo is a legitimate SB raising hand. There’s nothing wrong with showing that hand down.

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samo


I’ll fold. While I agree with the math for the call, I don’t want to risk doubling-up a TAG who has position. Hero is comfortably heading toward the $, so be conservative in this spot.

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teddy


fold. calling off a quarter of your stack with KJ makes no sense against a TAG player.

[Reply]

alekhine11


Villain has a perfect restealing stack and both know this.So, once you decide to open raise you know he is insta shoving;KJ is good enough to open with and call a reshove with this effective stacks.

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Bert


depends what mood your in i guess

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