What an idiot!!

denachoman

I have been playing $5 and $10 STTs on Paddypower for a while and decided to move up to $15 last weekend.

Standard was a little better, not a whole lot better - it was a little harder to get paid off on your good hands.

In one particular game I found myself shortstacked with 1000 chips, blinds were at 100/200 and I was the BB. We are down to 4 and the CL with 5500 chips calls 200 from the button and the SB with 4500 chips calls so it is back around to me.

They are both pretty solid players, I have been playing quite tight, I have J6o and raise all-in to 1000. I get called by the CL from the button who shows A10o. Board cards are no help and I'm out - fair enough.

Then a tirade of abuse starts from the 3 players left along the lines of:

What an idiot
Thank god for fishes
??????????

Any opinions on my play here? - I don't think it was that bad. I'm severely shortstacked and it's only 3 hands until I'll be in the blinds again. If my raise works and I take down the 600 - great, if not and I get called hopefully I'm not dominated.

Culchie

Don't heed the idiot chants, it's all a learning process.

The fact that (a) You were so low stacked and (b) There's already entrants into the pot makes this an easy call for the villians.

When you are lowstacked, and have to make a move with any two reasonable cards, always try to be first into the pot all-in.

Iago

What did the other short stack have?

Why not see a free flop and if a J or 6 comes down without any scare cards push then? You'll get the the same reaction and probably be called but be in a better position because of it.

Also was it a 6 or 9 player table? If it was a 9 player table then that leaves 7,000 chips for the last player so he's the big stack not the button.

Overall I think I'd check here and fold if I didn't hit what I wanted on the flop. You could push in the next hand from SB and the BB might fold, or you could have a good enough hand to win the pot. Unfortunately because of your small stack your push was always going to get called here. If you had 1,500 then this might have got through..maybe.

Ste05

This play wasn't a completely idiot play, but you must have known you were getting called by at least one, if not both of these players.

I personally would probably have waited here as well, it's better to be the first into the pot, any action before you makes a push less likely to get through. Although with your stack, you’ll normally get called by someone…. and in this situation because of the button limp, (looks like he wants you're all-in) this might have put me off, (depends on how often he limps etc. etc.).

However the best situation you could have hoped for would have been for both players to call and to be up against an underpair and one or 2 overs, giving you a decent chance to triple up. Either way you need to hit a J or 6 at least, because there's no chance you're ahead here. So as you say, just pray your cards are live and cross your fingers...