Daily Hand Quiz

Fold. We’re obviously a terrible player if the only image we can assign to our opponent is “strong regular” which says absolutely nothing about his style of play. Since we’re that bad, we should do what bad players do, wait for primos and shove.

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I agree that “strong regular” doesn’t really tell us much about the villain. I really don’t like that description. But who knows…I guess it would depend on my mood at the time. Definitely gotta make a move soon given the shortish stack and rising blinds. So its either all in here over the top or wait 1, maybe 2 at most more orbits to get it all in. But our options at this point are pretty much push or fold. Not enough room to be calling and folding anymore…

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As Nelson said, this is either fold or shove. I’ll fold. K9h is a playable hand in a deep stack cash game, but there is not much showdown value vs. a big stack late in a tourney. Hero has a dwindling M<6, but there are 3 players at this table who are shorter. Hold-on and hope to get lucky.

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Agree – knowing more about the button would be really helpful to me.
If I interpret “Strong-Regular” to mean a pretty solid player, he’s raising pretty light here expecting to relieve us of our blinds. I probably fold, but I’m at least a little tempted to shove and make him decide if it’s worth 20% of his stack against a TAG opponent.
But, we still have the desperate BB to contend with and we’ll be behind if we get a call… so fold.

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Looks like a decent spot for a reship, our stack is just deep enough to have decent fold equity, and it won’t from here on if we fold here. Obviously it’s mostly dependent on how he views us, but I think if we’ve got a decent image I’d ship it in.

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Pete Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:10 pm

Ha. Decent’s obviously my word of the day

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agree with whats been said…if hes a “strong reg” hes never r/f to he stacks behind especially with a 3x open…but you can make a case depending on dynamics of villian to shove here if he’s been super active than I would feel better about him r/f instead of tryin to trap with a r/c…

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If Hero is going to shove here, then villian will only need to commit 17% of his stack. Since villian knows we are short stacked and getting desperate, he only needs a weak ace or pocket pair to snap call this. We hardly have fold equity, he will call with all the money in the pot. We simply cant beat his range of hands. K-9 suited is still a dog to his opening range.

Besides, we get the dealer button next hand. Maybe we can steal from there. We also have another orbit coming up for a shove.

It’s also late in the tournament, so it’s smarter to fold than to gamble with a mediocre hand.

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Fold.
Any re-raise pot commits us, so if you’re thinking about raising, it’s a shove. Problem is two fold. (pardon the pun) Firstly, the blinds and antes, plus your bet size means the villain is getting 1.7-1 on his money to call. Even bigger problem is the villain’s stack size, which means he can snap call a wide range….StealthE is spot on.
Times are desperate, your M is 5, and blinds are going up…..still, I’d prefer to be first in rather than trying to re-steal from the big stack, so I’m picking a better spot.

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I agree with most of these comments. I’m interested to know though – how good a hand would you need to push here?

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