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Zer0-0uts
Rock Star
Silver Level
Hello everybody. I thought I might post this while waiting for the CardsChat free roll to begin. That way I am keeping my account active I am taking algebra in summer school right now, and it does not leave me a lot of time to post here or even to play poker for that matter. I am all caught up right now though so, I will post and I will free roll today
So this post is about the situation I was in last week during the free roll, how I busted out, and about what the best strategy might have been. Let me set it up for you. I was playing a tight aggressive game. I was floating right around 3rd place with 30 players or so left. I would play a few hands and maybe take a smallish hit to my stack pushing me down some on the place ladder, but for the most part I would bounce right back up after taking a hit.
I had just taken a hit, and I saw that now I had pocket aces in the hole. I made my standard pre flop raise and was then 3 bet pre flop. I thought for a second or two and then 4 bet the villain. He shoved all in. I called and I knew 100% in my mind he was on pocket kings. I was right. Unfortunately he out drew me for a set of
I kings and I was busted out in 30th.
Here is were the strategy questions come in. How might I have played it different and how would that have changed the out come? When I was 3 bet in to I suspected kings. When he shoved after my 4 bet I knew it was kings. Maybe I could've smooth called the 4 bet and then played it out to see if a king hit the board? Then I had the option to fold if a king did hit and I really believed he had pocket kings. But could I have folded after smooth calling a 4 bet with over half my stack invested already, even if I knew I was beat? I do not know. Could I have just called his 3 bet and tried to play pot control pending a disastrous king show up on the board? Or maybe I did everything right and it just wasn't my day?
What would you have done?
So this post is about the situation I was in last week during the free roll, how I busted out, and about what the best strategy might have been. Let me set it up for you. I was playing a tight aggressive game. I was floating right around 3rd place with 30 players or so left. I would play a few hands and maybe take a smallish hit to my stack pushing me down some on the place ladder, but for the most part I would bounce right back up after taking a hit.
I had just taken a hit, and I saw that now I had pocket aces in the hole. I made my standard pre flop raise and was then 3 bet pre flop. I thought for a second or two and then 4 bet the villain. He shoved all in. I called and I knew 100% in my mind he was on pocket kings. I was right. Unfortunately he out drew me for a set of
I kings and I was busted out in 30th.
Here is were the strategy questions come in. How might I have played it different and how would that have changed the out come? When I was 3 bet in to I suspected kings. When he shoved after my 4 bet I knew it was kings. Maybe I could've smooth called the 4 bet and then played it out to see if a king hit the board? Then I had the option to fold if a king did hit and I really believed he had pocket kings. But could I have folded after smooth calling a 4 bet with over half my stack invested already, even if I knew I was beat? I do not know. Could I have just called his 3 bet and tried to play pot control pending a disastrous king show up on the board? Or maybe I did everything right and it just wasn't my day?
What would you have done?