What would you do? Poker hand of the Week.

[medtrans]

Go for it...all in

medtrans

[blueday]

Hmm a tricky decision Katt.  My first thought is that you have this all-in'er beat and my second thought is that this guy gets lucky with his all-ins (size of his chip stack).  The other thing is the BB - he could have a corker (unlikely) but it does happen. 

Being as you only have 6k and probably enough for one more BB, I would call.  You have a good chance of being in the lead and a good chance of hitting trips.  I would definitely go for it.

blue

[dabigdog]

i agree with medtrans and blue,  at some point your gonna have to jump off a bridge and hope there is water on the other side.....pocket fives is probably better than the all-in stooge......but i bet if you did lose this hand it was from the bigblind who also called after two players had committed the leap and as blue said...he/she  had a big hand.  i hope you hit a set!

[kattboots]

Thanks guys! Here is how it played out:
THE FLOP


THE TURN (Oh yeah!)


THE RIVER


My chat comment: Rollin, rollin, rollin on the river... bye all

katt

[dabigdog]

the sad thing is that the stooge probably thinks he/she did good and made a superior play...........lol....go figure

[medtrans]

That figures.  Sorry katt.  Poker can be so frustrating!

medtrans

[kattboots]

I just feel better that you guys thought I did the right thing too... It is an RNG thing when those goofballs win like that every time! During that tourney I lost to the river on good hands at least 4 times!

katt

[blueday]

That sucks Katt.  I'd be so frustrated after that dreadful river card.

You were very unlucky or should that be your opponent got lucky!

blue

[kattboots]

That sucks Katt.  I'd be so frustrated after that dreadful river card.

You were very unlucky or should that be your opponent got lucky!

blue

That guy got lucky a lot... but at least his rubbish was not as bad as some of the other ones he won. But it was one of those do or die without trying situations.

I have a new mantra for poker: FEAR the R-I-V-E-R! 

katt

[blueday]

I have a new mantra for poker: FEAR the R-I-V-E-R! 

I have a new mantra for poker:  DON'T let them GET to the R-I-V-E-R!

blue

[timwilcob]

or donk it up for a spell with these big stack chip hoarders.. it is the most useful method i use depending with the status of the tournament.. that is how these chip hoarders over bet every hand with crap hands and they win most of the time. especially on that site Katt they are vicious donks for the most part taking chances on those Winning Poker cardrooms.

[blueday]

True.  They take advantage of the RNG which attracts fish to a site which in turn generates lots of revenue for them. 

blue

[blueday]

It's been a while!

Finally got a reasonable hand to ask you what you would do. 

This is an Omaha Hi/Lo freeroll on PokerStars

This is my starting hand and I have $6.5k in chips.  I'm Big Blind and one player has raised all in for $12k.

What would you do bearing in mind this is hi/lo?

blue

[kattboots]

Hearing what you did and how you handle such a hand will probably do a lot more good than my answer. I have stumbled my way thru a couple of games of Omaha Hi/Lo and done very badly indeed.

But, looking at your hand the way I understand the game I would probably fold against an all-in bet. Of course that would also be influenced by the play of the all-in player prior to the hand in question.

Knowing nought about it, what i see in your hand is 47 toward a low hand, 2 cards toward a K high flush, a pair fo 4's of course, or 4h7h toward a low straight flush. None of those would make me feel warm and fuzzy about facing that all-in.

Please enlighten me blue.

katt

[blueday]

The other player has been fairly loose"ish" and he was last to act (button). Two players before him had flat called the BB.

Does this info make a difference to your decision?

blue