a lesson from the tables
I have just pushed freebird1980, who has about half as many chips as I do, all-in, sensing weakness and hoping he’ll fold. I wouldn’t try this with a hand much weaker than ATs, but as it is, that’s what I’m holding. He flips up QQ, and I flop an Ace (and a ten!) to take his stack.
freebird1980: what the %#$% was that crap??? A,10??
Erok420: thats not crap
YSR420: i agree
freebird1980: it is for that kind of money
Erok420: Kten there
freebird1980: you agree it is or is not crap YSR?
dannordquist: I’m sorry I sucked out on you
DAYTRADE: would you have felt better if he had AK
YSR420: that it is not crap
dannordquist: but I’ve seen that kind of action with 55, 77, 99
Erok420: A tne suited is a good hand
YSR420: that’s poker in case u didnt know
Erok420: ten
dannordquist: KQ, KTs, whatever
dannordquist: besides, you thought about folding QQ
dannordquist: and that was the whole point
dannordquist: cmon, rebuy and I’ll probably give it back to you
freebird1980: you are smoking crack, AT is not even close to worth putting
half your stack at stake when you got 80-100 x bb for a stack
YSR420: lol
dannordquist: I do like smoking crack…
I was literally thinking "gap concept" when he raised from the button. It was folded around to him. He needed almost nothing to raise from there, so my reraise was a way to tell him "nice steal attempt, but I’m keeping this". His reraise to half his stack could certainly have meant "I’m not messing around" or "I watch too much TV and that move was totally supposed to work."
I put him on a high ace, which means I’m behind, but pushing him all-in for the other half of his chips is academic. At that point, he’s got to fold any goofy steal-attempting hands, a lot of lower pairs, and maybe even AJ or AQ (but probably not). When he thought about it for more than ten seconds, I switched my read to small pair: coinflip which I don’t mind playing for $10. And I was way wrong: actually down like 66-34 or something. It worked out in the end.