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[Closed] AJ in BB with two limpers and a short SB shove of 1/10th my stack

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fastroller
Joined: 05.01.2010

10000+ MTT I was down to the final 400 and was one of two big stacks at the table.

Hi there looking for some expert advice please, I'm having trouble going extra deep I
get a comfortable stack in most tourneys and my ITM rate is okay but I never get deep.
Just wondering how I should've played this hand please be specific if you have advice.

Opponent1 posts the ante of 250
Opponent2 posts the ante of 250
Opponent3 posts the ante of 250
HERO (in BB) posts the ante of 250
Opponent4 posts the ante of 250
Opponent5 posts the ante of 250
Opponent6 posts the ante of 250
Opponent7 posts the ante of 250
Opponent8 posts the ante of 250
Dealing down cards
Dealt to HERO [Ac Js]
Opponent posts the small blind of 1,000
HERO posts the big blind of 2,000
Opponent1 folds.
Opponent2 calls 2,000.
Opponent3 folds.
Opponent4 folds.
Opponent 5folds.
Opponent6 calls 2,000.
OpponentV7 folds.
Opponent8(SB) raises to 7,594, and is all-in.
HERO (in BB) calls 5,594. ------->(right to call or should I have reraised all-in to isolate)
Opponent calls 5,594.
Opponent calls 5,594.
Dealing Flop [9s Jh 7h]========>(Flop top pair top kicker so I lead out didnt expect this)
HERO bets 15,481.
Opponent raises to 83,726, and is all-in
Opponent calls 15,481, and is all-in.
HERO calls 37,098, and is all-in. (Call 37,000 to win 116,000 with top pair kicker is that wrong?)
Dealing Turn [Qs]
Dealing River [3h]
Opponent shows [Kc Kd]
Opponent has One Pair, Kings
HERO shows [Ac Js]
HERO has One Pair, Jacks
Opponent shows [Jc 7c]
Opponent has Two Pair, Jacks and Sevens
Opponent shows [Ks Jd]
Opponent has One Pair, Jacks
Opponent wins 153,265

It was tough to put him on a two pair on that flop. I thought it was a pretty loose reraise
but I regret not isolating against the SB shortstack who shoved what do you guys think?

Also another hand in a cash game NL25.

I flop top set and don't feel I got max profit out of it. Please let me know how I should play
this and how much I should be when I bet when I call etc. please be specific.

Dealing down cards
Dealt to HERO [9d 9s]
opponent posts the small blind of $0.10
villain posts the big blind of $0.25
aggressor raises to $0.75.
guy folds.
HERO calls $0.75.(On the button)
someguy folds.
otherguy folds.
Dealing Flop [6s 9h 5c]
aggresor bets $1.50. (Cbet it seemed obvious he missed the board)
HERO raises to $6.35. (I think this is a good bluff amount so I hoped he would think I was or
that he had an overpair but unfortunately I scared him off)
Aggressor folds.
HERO wins $4.61

My question is what is the optimal play here?
Do I slowplay and call his cbet then hope he cbets the turn where I can throw in a raise?
How much should I reraise by on the flop and or on the turn?


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mishuq
Joined: 31.07.2008

hey, fastroller!

took me a lot to read your hands, I advise u google for some converter to make life easier for everyone. plus, u should post them separately: first hand in the mtts area, second in bss (I suppose)
another important thing about the hand evaluation is the stack sizes, which in this case we must guess / search the entire hand for them

anyway, I'm not really good at evaluating mtt hands, but I'd say with a decent sized stack like yours, AJ needs protection even preflop, thus you either overpush it there, either fold it on the flop. it doesn't seem right to risk busting early with just top pair top kicker against a pf push and 2 other players who called/raised your flop bet

as for the 2nd hand, you can only call 99 pf when both u and your opp have at least 20 x raise amount.
as played, cbet is a standard move on the flop, it means almost nothing without any other info on the opponent. you can sometimes slowplay (just call) this board since it usually doesn't fit with your opp's range of raising preflop, but the best thing to do is just raise him (a bit smaller than you did: 2,5 -> 3,5 times his bet)


fastroller
Joined: 05.01.2010

Thanks man yea I shouldve folded on the flop but even earlier shouldve reraised all in the isolate against the shortstack, AJ offsuit isn't great but it beat the hands the limpers had they were pretty bad players imo and I thought I had them and got unlucky to run into a two pair anyway.

99 I play a little different then 22-66, is it really better to only call when we can get 20x the raise out of their stack? I go by 8x rule but thats only for the 22-66 pairs since 99 sometimes comes up as an overpair on the flop I call a little more. I'll look into changing it to when me and opponent are both bigstacked.


Hey fastroller,

unfortunately this is the wrong forum. This forum is for feedback concerning the content that is offered by PokerStrategy.com

in order to get your hands evaluated, you have to post it into our sample hands forum. The professional handjudges of PokerStrategy.com are happy to help you there. And like mishuq said, there are a few things you should be aware of like:

Convert your Hands
Post your Hands into the correct forums

You should have a look at this sticky, it contains all the information on how to post a sample hand.

I have moved this thread into the MTT-Basic-Forum for you. In order to get your Cash-Game Hand evaluated, please read the sticky and open a thread in the No-Limit forum.

Best Regards,

Timo


larseda
Joined: 06.08.2006

cant see much if i dont know the stacks ...

at all
if he is a loose player u should reraise him ... that he folds
if he is an tight player and will most times just raise for value ... then u should fold this hand