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May 8, 2008 5:38 am
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Hey Everyone,
I wanted to get your input on this. I'm playing in Hubble's Holdem NL freeroll on Pstars. If any of you have ever played in it you know its a huge tourney averaging 12000 people. I'm up to 6k in chips and playing only the top ten hands. Guy raises me six times on my blinds and in the button over 20 hands and raises about 4 other times to other people out of position. I think we all can peg this guy as a jackal. I tell him that he raises my blind again I'm coming over the top of him. We get to the small blind again and he triples the blind raise as he has done the other six times. I have AQ off and I do as I reraise 3x his raise. At this point it is just him and I in the pot and he goes all-in. I think for a moment and I know at this point he could have a multitude of hands. I'd say he could have as many as 20 different hands with aces kings and queens and AK completely wrecking me. The others hands I am fine putting all my money in the middle against, especially this guy. He flips over AA and proceeds to take a huge chunk of my chips. I think I made an error at least telling the guy that I was going to come over the top of him if he came at my blind again. I also have a problem with calling a good portion of my stack preflop with AQ, but this guy was pounding on me and he wasn't going to stop. He was going to take every blind until I kept him honest. Any feedback or input would be appreciated. Thanks everyone.
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Giving him advance notice of your raise was not the thing to do, but you already know that ! When the jackals of the world keep raising you, the only thing you can do is be patient until you get a hand to come back over the top of him with, The problem here arises with your choice to do it with AQ off suit, that hand is to far down the line of top starting hands to reraise with.
To call his all in you may have been pot committed, I don't know, but hand selection is imperative, and all the problems in this hand will go back to the fact that you reraised him with an insufficent hand, at the wrong time ! Nothing you can do but learn from it, and try to keep your pre flop committment to pots under 10% of your stack, unless you have AA or KK , but even then, it is a risk to get to much in pre flop, and you should be betting your chips, not calling them off !
.......play on .........Tc.....
I dont know that telling him you were going to reraise him was so bad. Imagine if you had just muttered to yourself "that sonofabitch raises my blind again Im gonna pop him bygum!". Would the AQ AA hand have played much different? You already decided he was willing to raise with marginal hands. And since you had decided that already i can see where you could put him on a hand believing that even if you were behind preflop, you likely had 2 overs. You obviousy had him covered.Could you have gotten away from it? I guess so. But there were lots of reasons to make your play. It just so happens this time he had you dominated. I'm not a fan of "thats poker" (By not a fan i mean i wanna punch the fool who says that to me) but in this case, really, what are you gonna do? You'll get em next time!!