Players start with 30K chips but blinds go up every 15 minutes so folks get real shallow later in the tourney.
Blinds: 600/1200 (200 ante per player)
Avg Stack: 35K
Heros Seat 4: 56K
Villain#1 - Seat 3: 38K (seems relatively tight/straightforward type player)
Villain #2 - Seat 6: 40K (doesn't seem to get too out of line, very talkative, not tight but not loose, somewhere in between)
The button is on Seat 7. Villain #1 limps for 1200
Pot: 4,800
Hero looks down at
, Hero raises to 5K
Villain #2 says "ok I'm with ya bud!" and calls 5K
Villain #1 calls 5K
Flop:
Pot: 18,600
Villain #1 - 33K left
Villain #2 - 35K left
Hero: 51K left
Villain #1 checks
Hero bets 8K
Villain #2 shoves all-in for 27K more
Villain #1 folds
Pot: 53,600
Hero's remaining stack: 43K
Hero must call 27K more to continue, Hero?
fwiw, I bet the 8k figuring that was sufficient to get the job done, discouraging draws or fancy plays against me, while leaving myself room to consider a decision if I was put to one
I opted to fold here. I had Villain covered, hadn't given off an image of a maniac to make him think I was betting light in that spot, and in my experience players bluff a lot less than you'd think, and oftentimes big bets mean just what they should mean, big hands.
I had to consider his range here. If he held QQ/KK/AA I would expect he's repopping my raise preflop most of the time. It's not impossible for him to show up with those hands, but I weighed them less given the likelihood I'd face a 3-bet pre.
TT was a possibility, thinking it was good and maybe putting me on an AK type hand that couldn't call. But, given I hadn't gotten out of line if he held TT he might just smooth-call, afraid I had a higher pair.
or
were certainly possible, although I'd expect a reraise sometimes with the AK holding there. And of course 88 or 77 were certainly in Villains range as well.
I hated laying it down and agonized over the decision for a bit. But I just figured the players in these tourneys I usually encounter aren't barreling off with nothing for their stack when rebuys are closed frequently enough for me to make the call.
I flipped over my
and said "I guess this is no good" and the lady between us was like "how are you laying down that hand on that flop????!!!" (later deep in the tourney she would limp
when the blinds were super high, then call a shove and crack Aces with it and exclaim "gotta play those suited connectors!"
But I digress, Villain flipped over
and I managed to stave off a big loss fortunately.