We've got an all new "Hand of the Week". For those of you who are not
familiar with this, I will post a scenario of a hand I played during
the week. Then leave the ending for you to contemplate. The next week
I will post the answer and hopefully there will be some DISCUSSION on
it. Play nice though, we don't need people poking giants in the
stomach telling them they shouldn't have played A 9 off suit on the
button with 1 player left before the points. Or something like that.
Sorry Bill, had to. Ok, so here we go.
Our hero is sitting in a 24+2 45 player sit n go on Full Tilt. We are
only 15 min. into the tournament and have 3200 in chips. It's a
fairly loose table so far and we have doubled up through some really
bad players. I'm sitting in the big blind and look down at 3d 4c. It
folds around to the 7th position who calls the 50, as does the cut
off, button and small blind. We are 5 handed and I check to see a
flop with a pot of 250. The board shows 4s 5d 4h rainbow. Not a bad
flop. The small blind checks and we decide to get tricky here and
just check to see what's going to happen with the others. My plan
here was to check raise and take it down or catch someone trying to
be the hero. Remember, we're the hero. So it checks all the way
around and my plan fails. The turn is the 2s. Pretty good card for
us. Gives me a set with an open ended straight draw. I decide to bet
150 into the pot of 250 and try to build it up so we can get some
chips. 7th position folds and the cut off calls. His chip stack was
3780 when the hand started. The button folds and the small blind who
started the hand with 745 chips calls. So now we are 3 handed going
to the river with a pot of 700. The last card is the Js. The small
blind thinks about this for about 10 to 15 seconds and pushes his
remaining 545 in the pot. I think about it for a couple of seconds
and call. The big stack in the cut off who has us covered min raises
it to 1090. After calling the all in from the small blind we have
2455. If we called the min raise we would have 1910 and if we pushed
he has us covered. What do we put him on and what do we do?
Now think long and hard, discuss the hand, and I'll be back next week
with the answer and a whole new pile of problems.
-Blind Me Down
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