Monday 17 August 2009

A Poker Post, just like a promised..

I've got a couple of hands that have been plaguing me from a couple of live tourneys this week. First we'll start with Thursday night in a double chance tourney.

Blinds: 100-200
Average: 12000

Me: 13000 chips, played like 5 hands all night incl KK, AQ and 99 and won smallish pots with them, nothing spectacular, but everyone can see I'm playing much tighter than usual. I also passed QQ after I raised and got shoved on and a caller after the raiser's hands couldn't stop shaking. I passed that face up and watched AA destroy AK.

V1: immediately too my left, not a reg, and don't know him at all but seems fairly solid but open to silliness like calling 3 bullets with 2nd pair medium kicker. Has about 18000.

V2: 14500 -- Chris is a reg and is a decent player but can be far too aggressive at times and this tends to cost him if he can't outflop people. Doesn't like to fold when he has chips in the pot or is on the button (like in this hand) and will squueze/steal from the blinds a lot if there are a few limpers (as there tend to be in the early levels of a tournament -- we're at level 4.)

I'm UTG, V1 is UTG+1 and V2 is OTB.

I have As Ks and raise the 700.
V1 thinks for 5 secs and flat calls.
V2 calls on the button and the blinds fold.

Pot: 2400

Flop:

9c Ts Js

That's about as perfect a flop I can hit with my hand that doesn't contain an A or a K.

I decide to bet 1500. Q1: should I check, bet more, or bet less?

I'm (almost) immediately min raised to 3000 by V1.

V2 thinks for 15 seconds and announces all in.

Actions back to me. My options are call (v2 covers) or fold. What should I do? I know I'm behind, but by how much? I figure I have 3 Queens and 9 spades in the deck (assuming V1 and V2 don't have spades and queens...).

Any thoughts on what any of them had?

Will post second hand later.

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