I would not have re-raised preflop for a couple reasons. First off, it's a $2 hyper turbo. You guys are deep compared to the field, but not necessarily deep with those blinds. SO, in those games, the player who's disciplined enough to raise-fold pre-flop is few and far between. Since you have chips to continue if you do lose this pot, you want to keep the size manageable. The best way to end this hand pre-flop is to make your bet much larger, and you basically min-raised him from OOP. Yes, he made a bad call, but in a $2 hyper, if you're not expecting bad calls you're not planning ahead.
Next, he's never folding a hand that has you beat, and the hands that he is going to call with are those of which you are never very far ahead. So, when called, you are going to be playing a bloated pot from out of position, which is a very difficult spot to be in. I'm not sure what MovingFlea is seeing, I don't see the donk bet. He raises on the button, you 3b in the SB, he flats. You come out shoving the flop. He never had a chance to donk bet, but by the time you've done that, you've almost justified his bad call. You'd never shove a K there or a 5, probably not AA, but maybe QQ-99...but you're pre-flop re-raise was so small it just looked like a re-steal attempt, and in these games he's actually probably right often enough to only make this a marginally bad call.
As played, you got what, 500k-ish in the middle pre, which commits both of you postflop anyway. If you're going to do that, just get it in pre. Your flop shove isn't bad, but like I said, what can he fold there that he'd play that way pre?
This hand is about the power of position and stack dynamics. If you know he's opening wide (from your reads or whatever) then just put it in preflop. If he has a history of raise-folding, then just size that re-raise a bit bigger, like maybe 1.5xPot. If he goes over that, you've lost a chunk but you can feel pretty good about folding. There's still plenty of meat left on the table for you.
Not a terrible play, but not optimal, either. I can almost hear Mike Sexton in the background saying, "This is a classic raise or fold situation," which is only partly right. The raise has to be bigger, or just let it go. Unless you like getting this deep then putting it all on a flip.
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11-03-2013, 07:58 PM #1
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