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Answering my own questions
Posted By: Stick In Response To: My Score + questions (Stick)
Date: Tuesday, 20 November 2007, at 12:38 a.m.
#5: Tournament. Blinds are 200-400 with 25 antes. You have 14,000 chips. 9 handed.
You are in the cutoff seat with: Ah 9c
Everyone folds to you and you raise to 1200. Button folds and the small blind goes all-in for a total of 4000. You don't have much information on your opponent, except that he seems solid and you assume that he has some kind of real hand. What should you do?
200sb + 400bb + 9*25 (antes) = 825, 825 + 1200 (your raise) = 2025
SB moves AI and it will cost you an additional 2800 to call, the pot is currently (pre call) 4825. What does this mean? I don't give a shit...that's for ppl who care about the math in these situations. I don't. If I know he's a solid player his range of hands to push AI with here go from 88+ and AT+ meaning I'm dominated. It's not worth it.
#14: 5/10 NL cash game. 10 handed. Everyone has about $1,000. An unknown player raises to $40 from UTG. It is folded to you in middle position.
You hold: 5d5c
The correct answer for the quiz I'm pretty sure is 'fold'. I call. This is assuming I know how to play postflop poker though.
#17: 5/10 NL cash game. 10 handed. Everyone has about $1,000. A mix of aggressive and passive players. Your image is tight-aggressive.You are UTG with: Th Js
Again, another loaded question. The answer for the quiz? Fold most likely. The real answer? Sometimes limp, sometimes fold, sometimes raise.
#19: You're in the BB. Blinds are $1/$2 and everyone at the table has $50,000 in front of them. It is folded to the button, who raises to $7 but accidentally turns over his cards in the process.You see that he holds: Ac Ad
He knows that you saw his hole cards. He did not see your hand. What range of hands should you call with? Which hands should you re-raise with?
Obviously you reraise with nothing, or he shoves all in. I also don't call with any hands, this is not worth the mental work & aggrivation to properly try to bluff him off the AA when you hit nothing. I'm folding, he can have my two dollars lol Quiz answer? I honestly don't know ... there may be hands I'd call with hoping to hit, like TJ suited, but overall I'd fold.
#24: Late in a large tournament. Blinds 1000-2000. You have 118,000 chips and are one of the chip leaders. It is folded around to the cutoff who goes all-in for his last 10,000 chips. He is a good tournament player. SB folds.
You are in the BB and hold: 5d Tc
You have to call 8,000 to win 13,000? His range of hands is anything and everything? Again, I don't give one shit what the math says, I fold. I'm the chip leader and I want to remain the chip leader not by putting pieces of my stack at risk with no hand just to knock someone out. I also don't want to double up the 'good tournament player' because the math told me 5T is technically a correct call. I want to keep my big stack and yield it as a weapon, defense in this sense isn't much of a weapon. Fold.
#29: $5,000 should be enough money to bankroll a 5/10 No Limit poker professional for cash-game play in a live casino.Absofuckinlutely. You said he's a 'poker professional', he'll be able to tear up 5/10 NL games and build his roll. The quiz probably said it's not enough to br a player, which is true, if you're talking about someone taking a shot at a game, but this makes it sound like he's an established pro.
#32: In a full ring game, AT offsuit is typically a losing hand from early position for most professional players
About any hand 'for most professional players' isn't a losing hand if they're playing it. I'd say most pros may fold this, making it a neutral hand, not a losing hand. The pros that do play it, seeing how they're pros, most likely have a positive expectation. Quiz answer again, probably "yes, it's a losing hand".
The Rounders question. You're sitting with your entire bankroll, $50,000, the board is: As 9s 8c 9d 2s. You have Ac 9c. The pot after the river is 5k and your opponent leads out for $15,000, what do you do?
There are two possible answers that I could argue until I was blue in the face but the absolute wrong answer (and not just because of the movie) is all in. You shove all in he'll fold any flush, the only thing he thinks about calling you with is a boat, and the only hand I'm sure he calls you with is when you're dominated.
Folding may be correct in the sense that you fold, cash in your chips, and take your happy ass home since you shouldn't be playing in a game where you have ZERO bankroll.
Calling is correct since you gain nothing from raising but you don't want to give up your hand. Again, if you call and lose you still have outs ... you get up, cash in your chips, and go back to grinding out the games you know you can beat.
Stick
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