What would you do? Poker hand of the Week.

[jacksrain]

I was sitting in my regular R10/20 blind no-limit hold’em cash-game recently with R2500 in front of me when an interesting pot came up. I had been super tight since I sat down during a long card dead period when loose 1 dimensional aggressive player with roughly a full stack R3000 opened for R100 in middle position. I looked down at two black kings in the hole and decided to smooth call. From here LINK REMOVED you may get more information on poker hands.

[blueday]

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[blueday]

The poker hand for this week comes from Orren (thank you for that).

As you can see pocket kings are raised all in post flop  and called by a 2nd player (big chipstack). 

What would you do?  Do you think someone has a pocket pair and hit trips or they are chasing the flush?

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Any comments anyone?

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[Rosebud]

I hope they are not chasing the flush but have pocket pairs and hit trips.I've done the flush chasing and went down in flames .I hopefully have learned my lesson.

[blueday]

So what would you have done Rosebud?  Call or fold?

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[jos vink]

iff u lucky he got ak but looks like aa

[Rosebud]

Well blue,with pocket pairs I'd probably call and hope for the best.

[blueday]

I would have called too. 

As you can see, this was a really sick beat and the worst hand won with trips.

Unlucky Orren!

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[Rosebud]

Bad beat for sure!! Don't ya just love it when the worst hand wins....ahh noooooo!!!LOL!! Sorry orren that is just so sad.

[jos vink]

hmm story of my life lost today with kk/28

[blueday]

hmm story of my life lost today with kk/28

So unlucky Jos. Where were you playing?

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[blueday]

You are dealt   .

The players are crazy!  Calling large raises and getting lucky on the river, hitting trips after going all in with pocket 3's, calling with Ace rag all the time...you get the picture here.

You are first to act and you flat call BB for a mere 50 chips.  No raise I hear you ask?  No I didn't raise simply because of the poor play and the unlucky flops and rivers on the great hands.  Two players fold and the next player raises all in for 1440 which means virtually my entire stack is needed to call.  Everyone else folds and it's my turn.

What would you do taking into account everything above.

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[orren]

Well it depends on a lot of things for me at least. Is this a freeroll or did you buy in? How much if you bought in, rebuys avail? How long has the tourny been running, are you remotely close to the bubble if it is a MTT?

The breakdown...

Freeroll - $3 buy in with or without rebuy.
Unless its late in the tourny and bubble is near, I'm callin. Even if it puts me all in. (granted I dont have 3x the average stack or more)

+$3 buy in and can't afford rebuy/ can barely afford rebuy/ rebuy not avail.
With 10x the BB or more remaining stack after calling, good chance of call. Other than that, with so little put in pot and the $ at risk. Only a fool like myself or a rookie would make that call. Its just not worth it, even if you know they're playing with 7 2os. This is what separates the players that have put in real time and continuously make $ and those that continuously loose $.

In conclusion..... I give is a 50/50 of me callin or folding, Depending on my mood, how my play has gone the past hour, how much $ I have left in bankroll and how frisky I'm feelin.
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[Rosebud]

I'd call...just cuz I like to live life on the wild side but seriously Id take in the fact that they are playing with rubbish...and winning and yep...call and hope for the best.

[blueday]

It was a $1 + 10c MTT with 45 players max.

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