1. 2011-07-23 17:00:47

   Main Event #12... my final hand

   So... I'm at the final table, WSOP event #12, currently the short stack. I get dealt As4s in the BB, I had about 10 BB at this point. The cutoff raises 2.5x (loose aggressive player, opens regularly), button flat calls (respectable player, tight aggressive), small blind calls, now to me...

   I'm not sure that A4 is the best hand here... should I push or just call? Should I play conservative and take a flop or try and take the dead money with a squeeze here.

   I ended up calling the flop came 2s Ks 8d. Small blind checks... I of course push with on over card and the nut flush draw. KdJs calls me on the botton and I miss all 12 outs.

   My real question here is what I should have done pre-flop...

   also if someone could tell me how to get the card images in the text I'd appreciate it.

   Posted by mattmo at 2011-07-23 17:00:47

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Comments on “Main Event #12... my final hand”

1. • Posted by Tony Gags g 2011-08-16 03:09:58
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   • The real question is.....What would T.J. Cookier Say!

2. • Posted by The Rake. g 2011-08-14 21:25:52
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   • T.J Cloutier would say Fold or Raise. Calling out of position is going to make your hand tough to play. I like your last stand but i believe is would have been ideal to fold or raise!

3. • Posted by Mattmo (unverified) g 2011-08-05 02:17:01
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   • I have to agree with you both, I think if the hand was played a hundred times, I probably break even playing both ways. I think the calls there, he was a big stack and would have probably isolated me after the initial raiser folds. He was a really good player, and ended up winning. He only hand one arm, and everyone called him lefty. Thanks guys, good thoughts.

4. • Posted by Tony Gags g 2011-07-24 21:46:18
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   • What Jason said....I think it all depends on how many chips the tight aggressive player has that flat called on the button, as well as your image. I think if the tight agressive player on button has some kinda medium stack like 30-50bb this makes for shoving with A4 in this spot the optimal play as you have a bit of fold equity and if you are called it is gonna be by a decently wide range still. If he got like 60-100bb you gonna get called a lot higher frequency, but his range of calling hands is really wide and puts you ahead a ton. I might even fold in this spot like in the middle of the tourny if I feel my table is super passive and I can get away with a button shove for like 7-8ish bb in late position after I get the button. This being the FT though I find that unlikely so I think shove is best. Nice run though dude

5. • Posted by Jason M g 2011-07-24 17:14:55
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   • Now, the hand.

     How many chips did the other players in the hand have? If you squeezed, what were the chances they would call you? This is a question only you could answer after playing with them for hours. It seems with a call and an overcall and your short stack, you will be getting called by a fairly wide range of hands (maybe even down to QJ).

     I don't think is a particularly strong hand to see a flop with, especially 4 ways. And you're not first to act, so you can't even just plan to open shove on the flop. Again, that probably wouldn't be an amazing strategy if you're super short and everybody else wants to move up in the pay scale (unless you had a really strong hand).

     So I think I shove and hope to pick up that dead money, but most likely get called by and hope to outrun it. Or just fold the weak ace.

     Of course, in this instance if calls you preflop you'll lose anyway, but we all know not to be results-oriented. In any case, it sucks that you couldn't hit your your outs :(

6. • Posted by Jason M g 2011-07-24 17:08:12
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   • I had to put the backslashes in the example, otherwise it would be the image

7. • Posted by Jason M g 2011-07-24 17:07:46
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   • To put cards in, just do a curly bracket followed by a single-character card rank (like A, K, Q, J, T, 9 ... 2) and a single-character card suit (S, H, D, C) then a closing curly bracket.

     \{Ah\}

     Check out the "Wiki Text Formatting Cheat Sheet" link at the bottom of the page when you are editing your blog post for more info.