Major MTT hand

loosecannon

Me - $100k
Villain - $80k

Down to the last 10% of the field or so in a major live MTT, blinds around $2k/$4k with a 500 chip ante, so costing roughly 11k a round

villain has been involved in a lot of pots and has seemed quite LAG raising a lot pre-flop and has been up and down quite a lot, see sawing between $50k and $150k, although he has been picking up a lot of pots on the flop by being strong

i'm on the button with AQs and the villain raises from 2 off the button to the standard amount $12k, i decided to re-raise hoping to take the pot down there, so i re-raise to $32k he deliberates and then calls

flop Qs7d2c (Pot $75k stacks left approx villain $47k me $67k)

he checks to me

what's my best line of action here?

Gholimoli

shove

valor

Gholimoli wrote:

shove

holla

gosplan

wait for a sec.......and then shove:D

Gholimoli

valor wrote:

holla

at the risk of being laughed at,what does this Holla thing actually mean?

loosecannon

What about my action pre-flop, is a call behind here too weak, is a fold ridiculous?

i agree that's it's about as good a flop as i could ask for and i presume that there is no other line but pushing here? anyone else play it different

Hectorjelly

Gholimoli wrote:

at the risk of being laughed at,what does this Holla thing actually mean?

its from 2+2, some stt donk (who is actually a pretty good poster) always ended his posts with it, he moved from stts to hsnl (ie real poker) and everyone insulted him for ages, it was actually pretty funny, for a while everyone finished their posts with holla. After a while it died down but he took it with such good grace that noone insults him about it anymore.

Hectorjelly

loosecannon wrote:

What about my action pre-flop, is a call behind here too weak, is a fold ridiculous?

i agree that's it's about as good a flop as i could ask for and i presume that there is no other line but pushing here? anyone else play it different

the pots too big to do anything but push.

Preflop is very aggressive, if he is a good player then his range completely destroys you (ie its AA KK QQ JJ) once he calls your raise. Most players arent anything like that tight though.

ocallagh

i prefer to check this flop

he only has 3 outs if he has a king, and even less if he has a pair

the stacks are so small copmpared to the pot you can afford to slow it down and snap off a delayed continuation bet


edit: just saw you raised him pre-flop. slow playing this is a mistake now as a push on the flop looks weaker and something like 88 might call you. depends on opponent tho, some i would still slow play this against...

5starpool

Gholimoli wrote:

at the risk of being laughed at,what does this Holla thing actually mean?

The actual word itself is a derivation of the word 'Holler', meaning 'Yell', and in this context means something akin to 'I fully endorse this opinion, and find it to be the correct course of action in this instance'.

It is equivalent to posting '.' in boards speak.

The above is what I would say if my middle name was wikipedia, and is possibly about as accurate, but that is what I believe anyhow.

ianmc38

From Wikipedia:

"Holla may refer to an informal greeting popular among those in the Hip Hop subculture."

It's really annoying but it still gives me a chuckle.

Onto the hand. If villain has been playing very lag, then reraising preflop is fine. When he calls your raise I'd be getting images of this in my head.

I might shove, but I may slow down and reassess on turn.

loosecannon

This was actually a hand of mine from this year's WSOP, and needless to say it's been bugging me for a while, so i thought that i'd post it to see how it was played, i had probably just below an average stack with around 560 left (in the money) and still lots of play when this hand happened (although a steal of the blinds was starting to be worth quite a large % of your chips)

i didn't actually push, although i essentially did, i bet $25k leaving me very pot commited. with this bet i was hoping to represent a missed AK and a badly played flop (ie hoping to get JJ - 88) to think they were ahead and push (maybe this is completely backward logic?) but i thought i was ahead and thought that bet smelt of a badly played AK

anyway, he duly pushed all in behind me and i of course called, anyone like to name his hand??

ianmc38

Q7s/Q2s

marius

AA - but im secretly hoping for the hammer...

loosecannon

no, it's wasn't AA or those two q rag holdings that ian suggested!

if you guess it i'll let you know, bit more on the player profile, he was a mad scandi (as they all are!) who hadn't yet been looked up on his aggressive play, his one all in had resulted in him losing half his stack, which he'd built back up to $80k

is probably tough enough to guess his holding (kudos to whoever does!)

bubbleking

KQ or J10 soooooooted

Lafortezza

22 for Villain.

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Gonna just throw out a guess of 27s?

Ste05

It must be one of AA, KK, QQ, 77, 22 for it to have bugged you for so long, therefore my guess is QQ.

loosecannon

further establishing his reputation as one of the very best posters on this site, Ste gets it! wp

QQ it was, he managed to catch the case queen to send me to the very edge of oblivion in the tourney (was left with about 19k and little hope!) ended up getting knocked out about 2 orbits later with the blinds killing me

i was virtually drawing dead, i needed the magic of running A A for the win!

obviously was gutted about the hand but never seem to be able to get the hand out of my head, i personally think i was comprehensively outplayed but i still can't see myself getting away from it at any point!

cardshark202

I think this is a clear shove preflop.