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ssbn743
Visionary
Silver Level
I’m in a live $210 buy-in event with $30K to start and 30 minute levels at my local casino. This event is a re-entry event and re-entries are allowed up until the second break, 4 hours and 8 levels in.
The blinds in level 8 are $500/$1K/$100 and my stack is around $32K and the break starts as I am in this hand. I’m on the dealer button and there are 3, $1k limpers ahead of me, one from early position. I’m dealt and raise to $7K (4x with 32BB plus 3, $1K limps). The BB calls as well with about ~$90K back as does the LP position limper with ~$20K back and 3 players go to the flop.
Pot: $24,400
Flop:
The BB checks, the LP player tries to fold but is informed that be must take the free-check (house rule), and I bet for protection and value and wager $8500; the BB then C/R all-in and the LP limper folds.
The Big Blind:
The player in the big blind was a hyper-aggressive player that had already experienced a full swing being as high as $150K and as low as $5K. He had been caught with some ridiculous bluffs, but got paid for his image a few times as well. This was also not the first time he had C/R all-in.
I know that any heart draw is in his range here, but also are two pair combos and even flopped flushes. Basically his range is pretty large and either crushes a pair of aces, or doesn’t. I thought about this situation in terms of 50/50; it’s either one or the other – if I lose the 50/50 I can go buy another stack that’s equal to the stack I currently have.
I call – he shows
I don’t like to re-enter in these events, but in this case I didn’t feel it was too bad of an option. I simply purchased another stack for $210 and received another $30K stack. In the end, it cost me $210 and ~$2K in chips to make this call; but on the flip side of the coin I would have had nearly $100K with the average stack around $40K to $50K.
I know in a re-buy event this kind of thought process would be very condonable, but this isn’t a re-buy, it’s a re-entry event; same logic? Or am I out to lunch?
The blinds in level 8 are $500/$1K/$100 and my stack is around $32K and the break starts as I am in this hand. I’m on the dealer button and there are 3, $1k limpers ahead of me, one from early position. I’m dealt and raise to $7K (4x with 32BB plus 3, $1K limps). The BB calls as well with about ~$90K back as does the LP position limper with ~$20K back and 3 players go to the flop.
Pot: $24,400
Flop:
The BB checks, the LP player tries to fold but is informed that be must take the free-check (house rule), and I bet for protection and value and wager $8500; the BB then C/R all-in and the LP limper folds.
The Big Blind:
The player in the big blind was a hyper-aggressive player that had already experienced a full swing being as high as $150K and as low as $5K. He had been caught with some ridiculous bluffs, but got paid for his image a few times as well. This was also not the first time he had C/R all-in.
I know that any heart draw is in his range here, but also are two pair combos and even flopped flushes. Basically his range is pretty large and either crushes a pair of aces, or doesn’t. I thought about this situation in terms of 50/50; it’s either one or the other – if I lose the 50/50 I can go buy another stack that’s equal to the stack I currently have.
I call – he shows
I don’t like to re-enter in these events, but in this case I didn’t feel it was too bad of an option. I simply purchased another stack for $210 and received another $30K stack. In the end, it cost me $210 and ~$2K in chips to make this call; but on the flip side of the coin I would have had nearly $100K with the average stack around $40K to $50K.
I know in a re-buy event this kind of thought process would be very condonable, but this isn’t a re-buy, it’s a re-entry event; same logic? Or am I out to lunch?