another poll, better this time.

Spike4000

we are newly entered into a tourney still in late reg. 6 handed. (NOT A BOUNTY HUNTER) the starting stack is 50bb and this is what we have. the utg player (also on 50bb) opens for 2.5bb. From the button WITH AQ suited do we want to:

[answer revealed friday 3pm]

Spike4000

@Tikay10 oops. please can you move this to poker chat? misclicked

Tikay10

raise

Spike4000 said:

@Tikay10 oops. please can you move this to poker chat? misclicked

@Spike4000


Yup, no problem, I've moved it.

PS - what is our starting hand?

Enut

This is a trick question, the starting hand is irrelevant as the hand would have been folded due to timing out before the table launches on my laptop. It's a Sky Poker thing.

TheEdge949

raise

@Spike4000 starting hand please or are we playing it blind.

TheWaddy

This is 'better'?..... your new clique signing is fitting in well!

Spike4000

lol fixed my error...i am definitely not tech savvy...

waller02

Suited or offsuit? Nearly there.

Spike4000

plot twist it doesnt matter @waller02

Essexphil

raise

Think it does. I like to 3-bet, particularly with AQs.

Helps know where you are.

stokefc

call

Call for me still early in the tournament so as to get the gist of things , am such a pu$$y

Tikay10

raise

@Spike4000

I'm 3 betting here.

If I flat, the Blinds are getting a good price to call, & we are going 4 way to a flop. Although I have position, I don't really want to play this 4 way.

I assume the Blinds will both fold now, & the opener will flat me. (If he 4 bets I'm folding).

If he checks the flop, I'm betting about one third of pot, irrespective if I hit or not.

If he bets the flop, I'm done with the hand, unless of course I hit the flop very hard. (I think I'd prefer a Q high flop to an A high flop).

That's the plan, anyway, but the plan is always dynamic & may change depending how things progress.

Always have a plan, always be prepared to go to Plan B, C or D.

I should add that I'm totally poo at NLH.

HENDRIK62

TheWaddy said:

This is 'better'?..... your new clique signing is fitting in well!

don't spoil this thread as well

TheEdge949

raise

Its a 3 bet for me. I think we are to strong to just call here. If he calls it fine, we have position post flop, if he 4 bets we can get away from it.

Spike4000

suprisingly the correct answer is call..while there are advantages to raising we are in position and potentially the blinds behind us can squeeze. for instance if we have Q-10 here or K-J here we're likely playing it the same so the blinds can put us on a weaker hand and squeeze. This opens up the opportunity to then 4-bet shove as we are in the top of our range.

Raising has some advantages too, for instance we can call a 4-bet shove from the blinds or even the open raiser however we don't need to potentially risk our stack this early in a tourney.

the solver says to call here mixed but more on the side of calling. so @stokefc well done

stokefc

call

Huh...i'm a poker god

Enut

Spike4000 said:

suprisingly the correct answer is call..while there are advantages to raising we are in position and potentially the blinds behind us can squeeze. for instance if we have Q-10 here or K-J here we're likely playing it the same so the blinds can put us on a weaker hand and squeeze. This opens up the opportunity to then 4-bet shove as we are in the top of our range.

Raising has some advantages too, for instance we can call a 4-bet shove from the blinds or even the open raiser however we don't need to potentially risk our stack this early in a tourney.

the solver says to call here mixed but more on the side of calling. so @stokefc well done

What reads does the solver have on the other players at the table?
My default by the way would be call, miss the flop, fold, move on.