maccatak11 wrote:Jmack? This time I'm not being a smart arse, I'm actually really interested to know what range you ha jav on when he raised from the button?
This situation you found yourself in happens quite a lot, especially when we are shorthanded, so discussing the above will be really helpful for ourselves and others.
Put Jav on a range?? Serious?? That is close to impossible.....
(He was SB from memory, not button).
He could be playing anything there (and he was). Usually, if the player had shoved my 2 previous BB, then just over min raised this time, it indicates strength (looks like he wants a call), but I have played Jav many times and he plays different. I was actually busy with other things whilst playing as well, so I will admit that my play was ordinary in that tourney.
Anyway, I would usually assume that I am well behind here pre-flop, but maybe he has KK-99, or Ax. If I spike my A, I'm probably good against the pair, if I spike my kicker, let's hope he has Ax and I hold. When I spike the middle pair kicker on the flop, my chips are obviously always going in, I thought I shoved, but as has been shown, he shoved (which to me shows he is weak here anyway) and I insta called, hoping he has the Ax. I was shocked that he had decided to make the play with those cards (as has been stated, if I have half a hand it is always gonna cost him 6k here, and puts him on the SS instead of me), but obviously happy to be so far in front, only for the usual 888 suckout to get me....
Anyway, standard. The rant came about because of what I considered a non-thinking player type play that once again got lucky. Really no need for me to rant, and it is very rare that I would do such a thing, but there were other things going on that led to that.
The reason I opened this thread was because Jav told me of a hand where I cracked his KK with 45o. The OP was about that hand, not my exit hand on Thurs. I am still curious to see that hand because unless it was a rebuy or min-raised/limped to my BB, I can't see how I was even in that hand.....
Hope that satisfies your curiousity....
