Pokeroom.com – Case Study 2
Posted on March 9, 2009
Filed Under Online Poker
www.pokeroom.com – This is another hand from my recent live game, and was a rather familiar one, as I picked up (K,K) for the third time during the tournament. We were engaged in a final table battle, with 6 players remaining, and I had shoved all in preflop about 15 minutes earlier with the same hand, only managing to pick up the blinds. My feeling with (K,K) is always one of fear, in that if you are called preflop, you are likely to be up against an opponent with an Ace in their hand, and so you are never quite secure.
On this occasion I decided to raise the big blind of 1,600 up and make it 5,000 to go. One player with a large stack then moved all in and after considering the possibility of him having Aces (he was risking it all against me as I had him covered with my chipstack), I felt I had to call. He turned over (A,K) and the flop came down (Q,2,7), I was soon worrying about the river though when a (10) fell on the turn, opening up the possibility of a Jack making him a straight. As it was, I had nothing to fear from the Jack, and it was my original fear of the Ace which proved correct. The Ace hit on the river and cut my stack down to a very weak 9,000. I do not feel I could have done too much differently though, perhaps if I had moved all in preflop he may have put the hand down, but I feel it unlikely given my loose table image at my local game.
Through some good play and aggressive moves I built my stack back up over the next half an hour, but I could not help wondering if I may have done better than my final place of 4th had this one not gone awry. www.pokeroom.com
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