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Title: Pocket 8's Post by: Indestructable on June 03, 2007, 08:17:57 PM In a ten player STT and apart from one knocked out (which doubled up the player now on the dealer button), the rest of the players including you are around your starting chip position of 5000 chips.
Blinds 200/400 First to act folds Second to act raises to 1200 You are next with 8d 8s What would you normally do? Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: sharpy on June 03, 2007, 09:03:43 PM At this stage of a STT I would seriusly consider a fold.If you flat call you are just wasting chips unless you hit a set,because you will have to fold to any bet if the flop contains overcards.If you raise it would have to be all-in,and I wouldn't fancy racing for my stack at this stage also there are still 4 to act and the blinds too. No this is a fold for me Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: boldie on June 03, 2007, 09:47:15 PM fold for me I'm not calling off 25% of my stack hoping to hit a set here.
Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: GlasgowBandit on June 03, 2007, 10:03:40 PM Deffo fold for me. Even if I am in position here am still folding.
Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: Longy on June 04, 2007, 12:38:14 AM Calling is horrible, there is no way you can play for set value and you are going to hate most flops.
So a read would be good on villan, as against a tight player this is a fold and against a loose player this is a push. Meh i fold readless i think, i would shove 9's tho its borderline. Good question. Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: temp0r on June 04, 2007, 02:02:44 AM LOLZ @ this thread. it's such a blatant fold it hurts.
Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: Longy on June 04, 2007, 02:15:52 AM LOLZ @ this thread. it's such a blatant fold it hurts. If our raisor had open pushed calling this with 88 is break even against a range (55+,a9+,kj+) this doesn't take into account the fold equity we have here which is not massive but significant enough to change the maths of it all. I maintain this is marginal situation and if you are pushing alot tighter than 88 here you are burning money. Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: Indestructable on June 04, 2007, 06:41:19 AM This situation actually happened to me twice yesterday when playing in live satelites for a tourney.
In the first game I made an instant fold and it ended up with two players all in. An eight comes on the flop and I am left muttering about my decision and why i bottled it. In the next STT I have the identical situation and decided to learn for my mistakes and push. The raiser calls with Th Ac And an ace and a ten comes on the flop and out I go. Where's that photo of a 50p piece. :D Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: temp0r on June 04, 2007, 02:28:41 PM In the first game I made an instant fold and it ended up with two players all in. An eight comes on the flop and I am left muttering about my decision and why i bottled it. In the next STT I have the identical situation and decided to learn for my mistakes and push. thank heavens there's poker players who think like you. :) Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: boldie on June 04, 2007, 03:51:02 PM In the first game I made an instant fold and it ended up with two players all in. An eight comes on the flop and I am left muttering about my decision and why i bottled it. In the next STT I have the identical situation and decided to learn for my mistakes and push. thank heavens there's poker players who think like you. :) lol yeah...I know two others..I call them "Bread" and "Butter" ;) Title: Re: Pocket 8's Post by: Indestructable on June 04, 2007, 04:05:12 PM :D
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