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Mooronic
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Check me on my math...
Casino tourney, $40+10. Started at around 100 and are down to about 40 or so. Blinds are 1,000/2,000 no antes. I’m in the sb with about 15,000 in chips. I'm dealt 7 4 diamonds. Folds to the blinds. I call the bb, who checks it. bb has a similar chip stack to mine. Pot is 4K
The flop is 5, 3, 10 with two diamonds giving me a flush and gutshot straight draw. I check and the bb bets 3,000. I was given marginal odds (1.33) and was ready to just throw my hand away and live another hand, but I sat back and thought about things for a second.
The bb was an older tight ABC type player – he bets it hard when he has it and goes away when he doesn’t. He’s not likely to bluff, but also not likely to get away from a hand he thinks is best. I put him on top pair (which he later showed to be J10) and less likely 2 pair and even less likely a set. Regardless, I did figure to just be only slight underdog in the hand with the 9 outs for the flush draw and 4 outs for the straight draw (48% or so), so calling based on pot odds could be debatable – but not for my preferred strategy since I do not like to get involved with marginal situations involving big chunks of my stack (although my M was pretty low). However, based on my reads (which I was pretty confident with), I figured that if I did hit my card on the turn, I could probably trap him for most if not all his chips in the end…giving me implied odds of up to 5-1 (3K to potentially win his 15K).
Given the information provided, what would you do? Keep in mind that I discounted going over the top because I figured if he’s willing to invest 3K into a pot of 4K, he’s likely not folding to an all-in.
Well I made the call to see the next card: 4, no diamond.
The good news is that I just paired the board added 5 likely outs to a top pair – any of the 2 remaining 4s or 3 remaining 7s would likely give me the best hand. So flush, gutshot and remaining pairing outs (38%) I checked and called a 4k bet into the pot of 10K (2.2-1). River was a blank and I had to throw my pair of 4s away to his all-in bet.
I kicked myself because as a result my M suddenly dropped from the not so desirable 7.5 to a desperate 4. I was subsequently forced to push a marginal hand and got knocked out of the tourney soon after – I could’ve had a little more time to make my move if I didn’t chase.
Cash game this is an easy call IMO...but in a tourney I'm not so confident I did the right thing..
Casino tourney, $40+10. Started at around 100 and are down to about 40 or so. Blinds are 1,000/2,000 no antes. I’m in the sb with about 15,000 in chips. I'm dealt 7 4 diamonds. Folds to the blinds. I call the bb, who checks it. bb has a similar chip stack to mine. Pot is 4K
The flop is 5, 3, 10 with two diamonds giving me a flush and gutshot straight draw. I check and the bb bets 3,000. I was given marginal odds (1.33) and was ready to just throw my hand away and live another hand, but I sat back and thought about things for a second.
The bb was an older tight ABC type player – he bets it hard when he has it and goes away when he doesn’t. He’s not likely to bluff, but also not likely to get away from a hand he thinks is best. I put him on top pair (which he later showed to be J10) and less likely 2 pair and even less likely a set. Regardless, I did figure to just be only slight underdog in the hand with the 9 outs for the flush draw and 4 outs for the straight draw (48% or so), so calling based on pot odds could be debatable – but not for my preferred strategy since I do not like to get involved with marginal situations involving big chunks of my stack (although my M was pretty low). However, based on my reads (which I was pretty confident with), I figured that if I did hit my card on the turn, I could probably trap him for most if not all his chips in the end…giving me implied odds of up to 5-1 (3K to potentially win his 15K).
Given the information provided, what would you do? Keep in mind that I discounted going over the top because I figured if he’s willing to invest 3K into a pot of 4K, he’s likely not folding to an all-in.
Well I made the call to see the next card: 4, no diamond.
The good news is that I just paired the board added 5 likely outs to a top pair – any of the 2 remaining 4s or 3 remaining 7s would likely give me the best hand. So flush, gutshot and remaining pairing outs (38%) I checked and called a 4k bet into the pot of 10K (2.2-1). River was a blank and I had to throw my pair of 4s away to his all-in bet.
I kicked myself because as a result my M suddenly dropped from the not so desirable 7.5 to a desperate 4. I was subsequently forced to push a marginal hand and got knocked out of the tourney soon after – I could’ve had a little more time to make my move if I didn’t chase.
Cash game this is an easy call IMO...but in a tourney I'm not so confident I did the right thing..