question of the day

August 28, 2006

Poker-related question of the day. You're in a SNG, and it's the third hand of the game. You're chipped at 1700 (start with 1500) and you wake up to two red kings in mid-late position.

Under the gun raises from 15/30 to 90. The person ahead of you flat-calls (he's a loose player). You re-raise to 200. Small blind then pushes (+1300) his stack. UTG instacalls the all-in, and the person ahead of you calls the all-in.

Question: What do you do?

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Posted by roy on August 28, 2006 at 11:08 PM in Poker | 8 Comments

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Phatcorndog

Comment posted on August 29th, 2006 at 09:16 PM

Good advice, Terrence, although I still don't have the discipline to lay KK down in that situation.

And BTW, spot on analysis about PS. It should just about be taken as gospel.

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roy

Comment posted on August 30th, 2006 at 01:57 AM

how about giving props to the guy who actually laid down the kings in that position :P

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Phatcorndog

Comment posted on August 30th, 2006 at 04:43 PM

You never said you actually laid it down in your post? You just asked what we'd do in that situation. :)

In any case, kudos for making the right play.

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hapy

Comment posted on August 29th, 2006 at 05:50 PM

i think i'd fold. reasoning is something similar to terrence but... gah, i just hate such situations!

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Terrence

Comment posted on August 29th, 2006 at 03:21 PM

Fold. Every time. Kings just aren't going to hold up against three other players, and that's assuming they're good right now, which they almost can't be. I know people do stupid things online, and obviously at least two people in this hand exemplify this. But raise, reraise, push push push seems to mean aces exist somewhere. Even the guy in front of you could have them, looking to just call and trap the cutoff. I can't ever see myself calling in this spot.

And if it's on Pokerstars, there's no way you're going to win anyway, because you'll be up against 22, 88, 56 suited and 9T suited. By time the river hits, your hand will be behind everyone on the 278J2 board. Even in real poker, fold this hand.

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jihwan

Comment posted on August 29th, 2006 at 10:52 AM

HALP HALP! HEAD HURTZ!

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bert

Comment posted on August 29th, 2006 at 07:41 AM

oh btw.. real answer? depends on how much cutoff boy has in comparison to you

if you have teh 400 chips left.. i definitely call.

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