Poker question

[CrapHacker]

I played an online tourney just now.

After an hour and a half I'm down to a dozen big blinds.

I get 6c7c in seat 7. It's passed to me so I stick in a 3x blind raise.

It get's passed through to the blinds. SB ( Bigstack ) passes. BB ( Loose git ) flat calls.

Flop comes As, 7d, 5c.

BB insta pushes, and has me covered.

If I fold I'm down to 10x big blind - still playable

If I call and win, I'm up to 30x big blind.

If I call and lose, I'm out.

What's the play?

It's on a 30 second clock.

 

[The_LHC]

I played an online tourney just now.

After an hour and a half I'm down to a dozen big blinds.

I get 6c7c in seat 7. It's passed to me so I stick in a 3x blind raise.

It get's passed through to the blinds. SB ( Bigstack ) passes. BB ( Loose git ) flat calls.

Flop comes As, 7d, 5c.

BB insta pushes, and has me covered.

If I fold I'm down to 10x big blind - still playable

If I call and win, I'm up to 30x big blind.

If I call and lose, I'm out.

What's the play?

It's on a 30 second clock.

You've got second pair, and you need runner-runner for a weak flush, so I wouldn't be giving that any weight, realistically all you can beat is a bluff, which is going to be difficult to gauge online. He could be sat there with anything though, so the only thought in my mind is whether or not you think your luck is going to get any better if you fold, presumably if you're short stacked it's not been going your way so far, so there's no reason to suspect anything will change. I'd be tempted to call and if you're screwed at least you've got out early, that sort of game I'd be happy to be on my way home...

 

[fundy]

With 12 BBs pre youre better off just shoving rather than raising to 3BBs, as by doing that you invite someone putting you to a tough decision if they reshove on you and you have more fold equity.

As played, without more info on the player I tend towards folding as its hard to fathom what he has flatted with pre and then shoved post, especially with the Ace flopping.

 

[brendy]

Id say that you have spent more than 30 seconds typing that so me saying "I dunno" and shrugging my shoulders isnt going to help much.

 

[The_LHC]

Yeah he's obviously representing the Ace but it could be a semi-bluff, he could have K-7 or something like that, you're busted in either case. The instapush is the clue, does that mean he'd already decided to push before the flop came down, in which case he's probably bluffing?

Trouble is online, he could simply be an idiot, you've got so little to go on, he may be sitting there with 7-5off, called for the hell of it and got very lucky.

I hate online play, give me a face to face any day...

 

[The_LHC]

Well, come on then dude, don't leave us hanging? What did you do?

 

[CrapHacker]

Yeah he's obviously representing the Ace but it could be a semi-bluff, he could have K-7 or something like that, you're busted in either case. The instapush is the clue, does that mean he'd already decided to push before the flop came down, in which case he's probably bluffing?

Trouble is online, he could simply be an idiot, you've got so little to go on, he may be sitting there with 7-5off, called for the hell of it and got very lucky.

I hate online play, give me a face to face any day...

He's a 'lively' player to say the least. He'd have called a preflop push with any ace, and reraised all in with it as well. So I didn't have him on an Ace particularly. I'd have expected a pre flop push with any pair as well.

Also his insta push really looked like a 'stop and go' play to me, so I didn't have him on an Ace at all. I had him on two overcards, a draw ( couldn't see much of a draw tbh ) or nothing. He could also have fluked mid pair with Q7 or something, but that was less likely coz of my 7.

 

[CrapHacker]

With 12 BBs pre youre better off just shoving rather than raising to 3BBs, as by doing that you invite someone putting you to a tough decision if they reshove on you and you have more fold equity.

As played, without more info on the player I tend towards folding as its hard to fathom what he has flatted with pre and then shoved post, especially with the Ace flopping.

I push pre flop with 9 or 10 xbb, but I try to play a bit if I have enough chips. I was thinking that if I folded, I'd still have 9xbb, and would push sometime over the next few hands.

I'd been playing with this guy for an hour, and didn't think he was much good tbh.

 

[CrapHacker]

I played an online tourney just now.

After an hour and a half I'm down to a dozen big blinds.

I get 6c7c in seat 7. It's passed to me so I stick in a 3x blind raise.

It get's passed through to the blinds. SB ( Bigstack ) passes. BB ( Loose git ) flat calls.

Flop comes As, 7d, 5c.

BB insta pushes, and has me covered.

If I fold I'm down to 10x big blind - still playable

If I call and win, I'm up to 30x big blind.

If I call and lose, I'm out.

What's the play?

It's on a 30 second clock.

You've got second pair, and you need runner-runner for a weak flush, so I wouldn't be giving that any weight, realistically all you can beat is a bluff, which is going to be difficult to gauge online. He could be sat there with anything though, so the only thought in my mind is whether or not you think your luck is going to get any better if you fold, presumably if you're short stacked it's not been going your way so far, so there's no reason to suspect anything will change. I'd be tempted to call and if you're screwed at least you've got out early, that sort of game I'd be happy to be on my way home...

I hadn't been 'lucky' so far, but tbh my mediocre chips was more through lack of patience, rather than a huge amount of bad luck.

Having been there over an hour, I wanted to stick around if it was possible, but I didn't want to fold if I thought my mid pair was in front of his range - if it's mathematically a good call, I try to make it, even if I get knocked out.

 

[The_LHC]

And? WHAT HAPPENED???

 

[CrapHacker]

And? WHAT HAPPENED???

It wasn't good



I called

I was right

He had 86o

So he had an up and down straight draw.

I was comfortably in front, but he hit his straight on the river.