DrStrange
4 of a Kind
We are playing $1/$1 live, six handed. The session is going to be shorter than normal tonight (likely done before midnight), so we are late in the session even though it is only four hours in. The table is in a happy mood, though there are big winners and losers.
Cast of characters:
Button is playing $600. He was the player in the previous thread wanting to play T7s vs Hero's aces. The villain is highly volatile, not particularly rational in a poker sense. He has too much air in his range. He also has a host of betting tells.
Crafty, our wise old skilled LAG has the small blind. He is playing $125 and is not having a good night. Crafty's mind might be focused on his pending vacation - a month fishing & diving in Central America - rather than the game.
Hero has the big blind playing $400. It has been a good night for Hero. A steady accumulation of chips without any one spectacular hand.
The hand:
We start out with three folds and come to button who raises one dollar with the stated reason of getting Hero out of the hand.
Crafty concurs saying it is a dollar well spent to push Hero out of the hand.
It is absolutely true that Hero doesn't defend his blinds, blindly. But maybe not here.
Hero is in the BB holding
[ most people will not remember, but I posted a thread with an almost identical hand (J9s) vs crafty in a blind stealing war late last year. http://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/j9s-in-the-bb-this-is-war.8844/ ]
Should Hero fold, call the dollar or raise? If raising, how much? Keep in mind that Hero will be called if he raises anything less than something outlandish. Both villains aren't going to want to fold after their comments. Also, there is some chance Crafty will jam all-in if Hero made a large enough 3-bet.
Cast of characters:
Button is playing $600. He was the player in the previous thread wanting to play T7s vs Hero's aces. The villain is highly volatile, not particularly rational in a poker sense. He has too much air in his range. He also has a host of betting tells.
Crafty, our wise old skilled LAG has the small blind. He is playing $125 and is not having a good night. Crafty's mind might be focused on his pending vacation - a month fishing & diving in Central America - rather than the game.
Hero has the big blind playing $400. It has been a good night for Hero. A steady accumulation of chips without any one spectacular hand.
The hand:
We start out with three folds and come to button who raises one dollar with the stated reason of getting Hero out of the hand.
Crafty concurs saying it is a dollar well spent to push Hero out of the hand.
It is absolutely true that Hero doesn't defend his blinds, blindly. But maybe not here.
Hero is in the BB holding
[ most people will not remember, but I posted a thread with an almost identical hand (J9s) vs crafty in a blind stealing war late last year. http://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/j9s-in-the-bb-this-is-war.8844/ ] Should Hero fold, call the dollar or raise? If raising, how much? Keep in mind that Hero will be called if he raises anything less than something outlandish. Both villains aren't going to want to fold after their comments. Also, there is some chance Crafty will jam all-in if Hero made a large enough 3-bet.
