You're a Bunch of Factors

Play for almost 5 hours, and you play perfect poker.........

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 4.4 Tournament, 800/1600 Blinds 200 Ante (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP3 (t22620)
CO (t131405)
Button (t29767)
SB (t88572)
BB (t38597)
Hero (UTG) (t31748)
UTG+1 (t56785)
MP1 (t52094)
MP2 (t57361)

Hero's M: 7.56

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A, A
Hero bets t3200, 4 folds, CO calls t3200, 1 fold, SB calls t2400, 1 fold

Flop: (t13000) Q, 4, 3 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t4800, CO calls t4800, SB calls t4800

Turn: (t27400) J (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t23548 (All-In), CO calls t23548, 1 fold

River: (t74496) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t74496

By the way.

I think I will sticky this thread and we can all post our beats and vent in the one area.

Results from above hand??

Min raise UTG??

Villain had KQ

KJ would be brutal...

[ ] min raising UTG is playing perfect poker

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 8.8 Tournament, 4000/8000 Blinds 1000 Ante (5 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (BB) (t78040)
UTG (t284140)
MP (t174074)
Button (t168696)
SB (t103964)

Hero's M: 4.59

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q, A
1 fold, MP bets t24000, 1 fold, SB raises to t56000, Hero raises to t77040 (All-In), 1 fold, SB calls t21040

Flop: (t183080) K, 6, 6 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t183080) 2 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t183080) J (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t183080

Villain had AJ.

AceLosesKing wrote:[ ] min raising UTG is playing perfect poker

THIS....

Why Garth????? Why????


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Garth says: Pretty standard with Aces. You are looking to underepresent your hand in order to trap or to induce a 3-bet so you can 4-bet all in.

Personally, I think the flop bet is a little light...but I am sure Garth knows more than me.

Quite simply that the majority of players on this table where extremely tight.

I had raised the last three hands from UTG by 2.5 - 3 X and received no play.
The min raise was a deviation from normal operating procedures and I was hoping that a few players might decide to mix it up and hopefully spew some chips or decide to at least see a flop. And at that stage I had 15 BB's so I knew my chips were going in and this was the best position for it. I'm not looking for folds or to go heads up here, I want to go at least multiway with three opponents.

At a minimum I had a good feeling the button would play in position with ATC, if he didn't re raise.
The bigstack on the table called and he was probably the loosest player on the table.

Now with the stack sizes, both villains weren't folding a flush draw, unless I jammed. As well as the fact that the Queen hit both their limping ranges (previous experience and data). So knowing that I was more than likely going to get max value here, i made a very weak c bet on the flop hoping to incite a re raise with marginal holdings from the big stacks.

Instead I get two flats, not what I was really looking for. I decide to jam the turn simply because the pot was worthwhile and I knew I was getting one caller. Just hoping he wasn't holding QJ.