When To Call At Poker
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22 January 2008 /
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WHEN to call.
A case study from the Betfair Forums: Tournament is £1000+£60
Dooberama writes:
Late on day 1
Hand 1.
Blinds 500/1000, Antes 75, 8 or 9 players at table.
You have just short of 8000 chips, oppo has a few hundred more.
You are on the small blind with A7 off.
Oppo has not played a hand for 3 circuits.
He goes all in from the button.
Call/Fold
Hand 2 from day 2.
You have 18000 chips. 2 hours in, you have been all in maybe 3 or 4 times and have taken the blinds from the button at least a couple of times in 2 hours. 2 of your hands have been shown, you raised with 88 only to be reraised and folded when on 25000 chips or so, you showed your 88 and he showed JJ. The other was an A4 suited, which after a brainstorm (you really didnt have the chips for calling lol!) you chose to call a mid position limper. You took down the pot on an ace high flop, after calling a small bet on the flop and checking down after.
Blinds now 600/1200, antes 100, 8 people at table.
Table is friendly but aggro, with lots of big stack bullying the 4 shorties at my end of the table.
You have had 2 raggy aces you have folded UTG on the last two circuits (why do you always get the marginals UTG??), now you get KQ off UTG on this circuit.
2600 in the middle, push or fold meekly and let the blinds go through again?
Blinds go up in 20 minutes, which is probably one more circuit or so.
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