Poker Question of the Day!!!

Narc

Your hand:



Game: No-Limit Texas Hold'em, Tournament
Position: Late
Type of game: Normal
Blinds: $300 $600

Everyone folds and a player from late position makes it $1,200 to go. You are on the button with $3,000 in chips left. The average stack is $8,500.

What should you do?

Danny Diamond

Founder/Admin

Call, chances are he has a K-Q suited or something not so great. More often than not people with great pairs to start with hold their cards too close.

I would go for it (and most likely lose haha)

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Narc

I'll wait for a few responses (if any lol) before giving my 2 cents.

Inogenius

All-in.

Narc

Well, pocket 9's is not that strong of a hand, but heads up it's a monster. You really have no chips left and that hand should be the hand you should be going all in with. By just calling you will basically have to go all in on the next bet anyway cause you are pot commited, but by just calling you are letting the two blinds come in for chip and pocket 9's against 3 or 4 guys, is not THAT strong.

Also when people raise from late positions, half of the times, they are usually just stealing and he might only have an A high or something and if thats the case, you are a good favorite. The other half of the times, you are in a race.

aaron

for me, its a simple all-in. as said earlier you are pot committed and possibly short stacked

Inogenius

That's actually my thoughts. Similiar to them.

You're already down about 5k compared to everyone else, and you have a winnable hand. It's not a guaranteed win, or even a strong hand, but it's one you can win with. If you call this round, you're going to be all in next round. If you fold, you're throwing away a winnable hand, and that's not something I like to do when I'm already down. When you're down, you have to take chances to get back up. And really, if you were to fold with the pocket 9's, you're simply waiting for a perfect hand that isn't going to come.

By going all in, you're establishing yourself as a confident leader this hand, and while it might not get everyone to fold, it'll likely knock at least one person with a better hand than you.

Narc

Well, I doubt anyone would fold a hand better than 99 for only 3000 chips, but you will kick out those hands that makes you only 55% favorite like QJ off or A10 off or something like that.

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