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PantsMan:
DTD £50 deepstack this weekend. Can"t recall exact numbers but a hand came up that really made me think. Just wondered what others opinions were.

My stack is about 27k. Blinds are 200-400, 50 ante.

A guy who has raised 3xbb whenever he"s raised suddenly raises 5x to 2000. I"m on the button and elect to call with A-10s as i"m putting him on a medium pair. Small blind folds and then big blind tanks for a bit and shoves all in for about 5.5k. The initial raiser insta-shoves for about 12k. Then it gets interesting....

Obviously i"m ready to throw my hand away. But then i look over and the guy who has shoved for 12k is so busy talking to the waitress he thinks i"ve folded and turns over his hand. Pocket 8"s. I immediately take my hand off my cards that were heading for the muck. I calculate the pot and it"s about 22k. I have to call 9k leaving me with 18k. But i don"t know what the big blind has. All i do know is he"s shoved already a few times and not been called.

So, do you call?

bigredders:
With those odds there would be burn marks to follow my chips they would go in that quickly!

AMRN:
call call call call call call call call, and then call some more

lose it, and you still have 15k behind.
call and win the side pot only, and you break even-ish
call and win the lot and you"re laughing

not folding for 2.4/1 when I can see the 88 hand


Hate the flat call pre though - flatting a 5x raise is pretty spewy in the long run

George2Loose:
Fold pre.

Fold now.

samuel_9:

--- Quote from: George2Loose on October 20, 2010, 09:35:47 AM ---
Fold pre.

Fold now.

--- End quote ---
i would have called the 2k but not 12k... Y.... i would say the average stack is about  20k you have  got 27 .....more than the  average stack ..... you call 2000 and mis you still have 25k..... you call 12k and mis your below average .....i would say your behind BOTH players you have 2 get very lucky 2 win this hand ......this game its not all about gambling its about playing cards....... the games about biulding a nice stack and winning the tourney ...y risk 12k when the bbls are only 200and 400 you only have 2k in the pot.....y double someone up to 10k or even better 24k......play cards NOT a c r a p s h o ut

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