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Pauly
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Background
This is a local casino tourney (£33 + £20 Bounty Hunter NLHE) and we're sitting at the final table, 7 handed. Our stack is 20BB with the blinds at 800/1600 ante: 800. The current pay structure sees 6th place take a min cash and 7th bubble. The final table is mostly made up of recreational players with one or two regulars. At this stage in the tourney, I have yet to take a bounty.
Hand:
Hero: UTG - K♣️Q♣️opens to 3,200
Vilian (stack 80,000): UTG +1 - Raises to 10,500
Folds back around the table to Hero.
Review/Feedback
Generally, I feel that this is an easy fold here as I am mostly dominated, but the actions of this player got me thinking for quite some time. Throughout the tourney, I have witnessed this player being quite rude to other players, acting out of turn, speaking in three-way pots and being quite unpleasant. There have been spots where he has made similar plays with KK and called off his full stack with middle pair against an over pair and sucked out on the river. It is worth mentioning that while I am tanking, the player says things such as, 'You only have two moves' and 'I will show you after or if you shove and I call'.
I know very little about the player, other than he has a reputation for being talkative and stretching the rules. He has also expressed a desire to play a PLO cash game all night. My question here is what would you do in this spot? Am I over thinking? Should I have open ripped 20BB here?
My decision and thinking at the time
During the hand, I felt that I could preserve chips here
and wait for a better spot as I am too often dominated. With the bubble so close, and weaker players around the table, who are firing off their stacks, I am likely to find a better spot. I fold face down, and the vilian turns over K♥️9♠️ and says, 'This is my favourite hand'.
Later...
I did find another spot and ended up taking down the tourney, but should I have taken this spot?
This is my first post, so please let me know if I have left out any key info.
Many thanks
P
This is a local casino tourney (£33 + £20 Bounty Hunter NLHE) and we're sitting at the final table, 7 handed. Our stack is 20BB with the blinds at 800/1600 ante: 800. The current pay structure sees 6th place take a min cash and 7th bubble. The final table is mostly made up of recreational players with one or two regulars. At this stage in the tourney, I have yet to take a bounty.
Hand:
Hero: UTG - K♣️Q♣️opens to 3,200
Vilian (stack 80,000): UTG +1 - Raises to 10,500
Folds back around the table to Hero.
Review/Feedback
Generally, I feel that this is an easy fold here as I am mostly dominated, but the actions of this player got me thinking for quite some time. Throughout the tourney, I have witnessed this player being quite rude to other players, acting out of turn, speaking in three-way pots and being quite unpleasant. There have been spots where he has made similar plays with KK and called off his full stack with middle pair against an over pair and sucked out on the river. It is worth mentioning that while I am tanking, the player says things such as, 'You only have two moves' and 'I will show you after or if you shove and I call'.
I know very little about the player, other than he has a reputation for being talkative and stretching the rules. He has also expressed a desire to play a PLO cash game all night. My question here is what would you do in this spot? Am I over thinking? Should I have open ripped 20BB here?
My decision and thinking at the time
During the hand, I felt that I could preserve chips here
and wait for a better spot as I am too often dominated. With the bubble so close, and weaker players around the table, who are firing off their stacks, I am likely to find a better spot. I fold face down, and the vilian turns over K♥️9♠️ and says, 'This is my favourite hand'.
Later...
I did find another spot and ended up taking down the tourney, but should I have taken this spot?
This is my first post, so please let me know if I have left out any key info.
Many thanks
P