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ok you have just gotten heads up and during the game you KNOW you can walk over the opponant so you are not going to get into any big preflop pots but your going to see as many flop as possible and out play your oppo
when the first hand brings you this

PokerStars Game #3418224546: Tournament #16947386, Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2005/12/23 - 21:45:27 (ET)
Table '16947386 1' Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Ironside (4620 in chips)
Seat 7: Mathburg (8880 in chips)
Mathburg: posts small blind 100
Ironside: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Ironside [Th 2h]
Mathburg: raises 400 to 600
Ironside: calls 400
*** FLOP *** [2s Ts 7s]
Ironside: checks
Mathburg: bets 600
Ironside: raises 1200 to 1800
Mathburg: calls 1200
*** TURN *** [2s Ts 7s] [Jh]



what is your play here you have 2220 chips left

Shovel it in. Then pray.

Or pray. Then shovel it in.

First guess he got  Qs Qh

All in.

Slap them all in. He could have a made flush, or made his straight on the turn, but we're heads up. If he hits that huge a hand against your 2 pair here, I don't see how you can get away from it with 2k left and nearly 5k in the pot already.
You'll have to really call if he bets, there's many possible holdings of his than you can beat. You gotta get the money in first, if he's still on a draw it's always better to be the bettor.

i guess he put me on a spade draw as this happened

Ironside: bets 2220 and is all-in
Mathburg: calls 2220
*** RIVER *** [2s Ts 7s Jh] [9d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Ironside: shows [Th 2h] (two pair, Tens and Deuces)
Mathburg: shows [7c 8c] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
Mathburg collected 9240 from pot


when i saw his hand i thought great this comp is in the bag barring him tripping up on the river boy did i miss the straight and only saw it when they pushed the chips to him

We are going to outplay this guy post flop and avoid big pots, so we stick in 10% of our stack pre flop out of position calling with T2  :blonde: :blonde: :blonde: :blonde: :blonde:

Once you are on the turn i think you have to push

How to tell when a hand analysis question is really just a bad beat story in disguise.

1. The desicion is a no-brainer.

2. It all goes Pete Tong on the river.

3. Ironside posted it.

If you are confident in your ability to outplay someone post flop then it's not a bad thing to call 9.5% of your stack to see a flop with any 2 cards. My definition of 'outplay' in this context, is to nick all the pots he doesn't seem to want, it's not about your cards here.

correct as most pots would be raised preflop so i would rarely see a pot for less than 10% of my stack preflop

out of position with T2 :D

out of postion with any 2

LOL

This strategy is fine in principle. But your stack is only 23 big blinds, which makes it impossible to achieve both aims of seeing as many pots as possible and keeping them small,  particularly when you are outchipped 2 to 1.

Edit: Which is just another way of saying what Royal Flush said