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Mooronic
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8 table live casino tourney. 3 of about 8 tables left. Blinds are $1,500/$3,000 no antes. My chip stack is about average with about $70,000. I have been playing the good ole TAG strategy. I’m in the bb.
UTG raises 3x bb to $9,000 – new player to the table so no reads, his chip stack is a a little less than twice mine. Middle position calls all-in for $8,500 – again new player to the table so no reads. Folds to me. I look down and see 8 9 os. I have to invest $6,000 (about 1/13 of my stack) to see a pot of $28,000 or about 4.5-1 odds. Crap hand in poor position, call or no?
Well I called and the dream flop of 9 9 9 comes up. I check and raiser bets 10K into the side pot. I put on my best acting skills and gave a disgruntled call – Pot is $48,000 (21K in side pot). Turn is a K, which I didn’t like because he might put me on holding one. I check. He checks behind. River is a J – potentially another scare card for him. This is where I wasn’t sure how to get the most money out of the hand. How would you have approached the final bet to gain the most value out of the hand and why? Would you:
UTG raises 3x bb to $9,000 – new player to the table so no reads, his chip stack is a a little less than twice mine. Middle position calls all-in for $8,500 – again new player to the table so no reads. Folds to me. I look down and see 8 9 os. I have to invest $6,000 (about 1/13 of my stack) to see a pot of $28,000 or about 4.5-1 odds. Crap hand in poor position, call or no?
Well I called and the dream flop of 9 9 9 comes up. I check and raiser bets 10K into the side pot. I put on my best acting skills and gave a disgruntled call – Pot is $48,000 (21K in side pot). Turn is a K, which I didn’t like because he might put me on holding one. I check. He checks behind. River is a J – potentially another scare card for him. This is where I wasn’t sure how to get the most money out of the hand. How would you have approached the final bet to gain the most value out of the hand and why? Would you:
- Push All-In? I had about 59K left so a push would inflate the pot to $107,000 giving him about 1.8-1 odds to call.
- Bet around pot size? If I bet say 40K, the pot would inflate to $88,000 giving him about 2.2-1 odds to call.
- Bet around 1/3 pot size? If I bet say 25K, the pot would inflate to $73,000 giving him almost 3-1 odds to call.
- Bet a small value bet? If I bet say only 10K, the pot would inflate to $58,000, but giving him almost 6-1 odds to call.
- Check and hope he bets into it?