Freeroll Contest Hand #2

[mparker876]

Got into this hand midway through the tourney. Do you think I should have just called his 1500 bet instead of raising on the off chance he had the A high or the unlikely hand he had?

full tilt poker Game #7402153381: Cardschat.com $200 Freeroll (50331270), Table 42 - 250/500 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:53:30 ET - 2008/07/27
Seat 1: WACKA WACKA1 (46,380)
Seat 2: milindbhat (7,925)
Seat 3: stevenk21 (6,840)
Seat 4: mparker876 (42,405)
Seat 5: scobar54 (41,336)
Seat 6: TheTruth2350 (1,800)
Seat 7: CheddarD13 (3,670)
Seat 8: rnhudson61 (36,860)
Seat 9: badbluffer69 (33,895)
WACKA WACKA1 antes 50
milindbhat antes 50
stevenk21 antes 50
mparker876 antes 50
scobar54 antes 50
TheTruth2350 antes 50
CheddarD13 antes 50
rnhudson61 antes 50
badbluffer69 antes 50
scobar54 posts the small blind of 250
TheTruth2350 posts the big blind of 500
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mparker876 [Kh 4h]
CheddarD13 has 15 seconds left to act
CheddarD13 folds
rnhudson61 folds
badbluffer69 calls 500
WACKA WACKA1 calls 500
milindbhat calls 500
stevenk21 calls 500
mparker876 calls 500
scobar54 folds
TheTruth2350 checks
*** FLOP *** [Th 3s 7d]
TheTruth2350 checks
badbluffer69 checks
WACKA WACKA1 checks
milindbhat checks
stevenk21 checks
mparker876 checks
*** TURN *** [Th 3s 7d] [7h]
TheTruth2350 checks
badbluffer69 bets 500
WACKA WACKA1 calls 500
CheddarD13 is feeling happy
milindbhat calls 500
stevenk21 folds
mparker876 calls 500
TheTruth2350 folds
*** RIVER *** [Th 3s 7d 7h] [Jh]
badbluffer69 checks
WACKA WACKA1 bets 1,500
milindbhat calls 1,500
mparker876 has 15 seconds left to act
mparker876 raises to 6,500
badbluffer69 folds
WACKA WACKA1 has 15 seconds left to act
WACKA WACKA1: i figured
WACKA WACKA1 has requested TIME
WACKA WACKA1 raises to 11,500
TheTruth2350: lol
milindbhat folds
TheTruth2350: jacs full
TheTruth2350: \
mparker876: a high?
mparker876 has 15 seconds left to act
mparker876 calls 5,000
*** SHOW DOWN ***
WACKA WACKA1 shows [9h 8h] a straight flush, Jack high
mparker876 mucks
WACKA WACKA1 wins the pot (30,200) with a straight flush, Jack high
CheddarD13 stands up
The blinds are now 300/600 with an ante of 75
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 30,200 | Rake 0
Board: [Th 3s 7d 7h Jh]
Seat 1: WACKA WACKA1 showed [9h 8h] and won (30,200) with a straight flush, Jack high
Seat 2: milindbhat folded on the River
Seat 3: stevenk21 folded on the Turn
Seat 4: mparker876 (button) mucked [Kh 4h] - a flush, King high
Seat 5: scobar54 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: TheTruth2350 (big blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 7: CheddarD13 folded before the Flop
Seat 8: rnhudson61 folded before the Flop
Seat 9: badbluffer69 folded on the River

 

[Dwilius]

You certainly can't worry about a straight flush, but I'm more worried about fullhouses than the better flush. The speech by Wacka, then minraising is hilarious.

 

[mparker876]

Yeah, I think he was trying to get me to push on him. I wasn't too worried about the boat because of the way the hand played out but I deffinately wasn't expecting the straight flush!

 

[Dwilius]

You're right the way the hand played out fullhouses or nutflush are unlikely. I don't hate a raise on the small pot, but with all the people in the hand i don't love it either.

 

[dj11]

It is flabbergasting you survived in this tourney after this hand. Mind boggling. You should have been road kill.

Wacko wacko lived up to that name.

Or perhaps the way I would have played that would have left me as the road kill, and you are better than we guess.

 

[mparker876]

LOL. Honestly if I would have had the A high, this probably would have been my final hand. I just couldn't put him on anything so I decided to just flat call instead of re-raising him again. I really felt like I was playing my A game today, at least up until the end, started getting tired from staring at the monitor for 4 1/2 hours.

 

[mparker876]

Buuut i would not have called preflop in the first place

I'll take a flop all day in position vs a min raise w/ that many callers, great pot odds. As I recall the min raiser had been min raising nearly every hand pre flop as well.

 

[mparker876]

I'll take a flop all day in position vs a min raise w/ that many callers, great pot odds. As I recall the min raiser had been min raising nearly every hand pre flop as well.

Actually, just looked over the hh again, there was no min raise... I think I need to go to sleep.