[123Law]

Ok. I played a tourny last night, and made it to the final table. BB has been playing aggressive, only good hands. I am short stack, and need to make a move.

blakely Posted Small Blind 10000
Blazeit Posted Big Blind 20000
Dealing Cards
You Were Dealt (Ac, Qc)
LayDAlysa Folds
pach1234 Folds
DEARMAN Folds
123Law Calls 20000 ****** I AM LATE IN HAND, SO I LIMP IN WITH A PRETTY GOOD HAND (SHOULD I HAVE RAISED?)
blakely Calls 10000
Blazeit Checks
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Dealing Flop (Kh,Qs,Kc) **** I HAVE 2 PAIR (Q AND K, WITH ACE KICKER)
blakely Checks
Blazeit Checks
123Law All In for 6616 **** SINCE I AM SHORT STACKED, I GO ALL IN.
blakely Folds
Blazeit Calls 6616
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123Law has (Ac, Qc) *** HERE I SHOW QQKKA
Blazeit has (2d, Ts)
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Dealing Turn (Jc)
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Dealing River (9s)
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Blazeit Wins 73232 from pot 1 with : King High Straight
123Law OUT

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Input? Should I have raised pre-flop?

[sensei24]

From what i read i understand that you had 26616 chips and call him with 20000 and then you go all-in with the rest 6616.
I think if you have gone all-in preflop he still have call and he will still win.
He just had to call your 6616 chips.
Doesn't matter for him if it was pre or after flop.
He got very lucky with those cards and took you out.
You played good but you've just had a bad beat.

[Texas72]

You're only mistake was not going all-in preflop. Calling commits you to the pot anyway, so why not just push there? No one has raised before you, this is a perfect situation. You still would have been called, because the amount of your raise was less than one big blind, but you want that. You just got unlucky on how this hand played out.

[iceberg]

Your only chance was to go All-in pre-flop and force out as many garbage hands as possible. I agree that he probably would have called at any stage of the hand since you were so stack was so crippled and he was BB.

Usually if I'm already in the money, I would go all-in with when my stack is less than 3BB. Then you have a chance to isolate a player and/or force out the garbage.

[123Law]

Thanks for the input.

I think my biggest problem was waiting around so long that my stack was just too low to make that big of a deal. I think you all are right that the guy would have called anyway, but still, losing that hand was a tough loss. Especially since he got lucky with the garbage he had.

Thanks!

[ad1129]

Instapush preflop. Doesn't matter what hits on the flop because you are 100% pot commited.

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[sensei24]

Originally Posted by 123Law

Thanks for the input.

I think my biggest problem was waiting around so long that my stack was just too low to make that big of a deal. I think you all are right that the guy would have called anyway, but still, losing that hand was a tough loss. Especially since he got lucky with the garbage he had.

Thanks!

He just got lucky this time. Next time you'll be.

[Yearbookpoker]

I just want to add that I wouldn't play the hand like that at all. Even if short stacked you can't go all in with that flop and your hand. I would have bet out and if someone moved all in I may have folded or then called. The situation is though, that you got all your money in the pot with the best hand. That is all you can ask for each and every hand. From there it's all about the luck of the Irish or pathetic online poker players who seem to draw out more than paris hilton gets knocked up.

[ad1129]

Umm he has 6616 chips left after posting the BB how do you suppose he bets out?

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[hayden1009]

it was just bad luck....you ran into the wrong hand at the wrong time ...
you were short stacked ...I would have went all in preflop..and I think you would have been called anyways so its really a non issue. all the theory books in the world arent gonna help ya when the hands develop in anothers hand as well and they have the chips to call you.