I played in a 5 pound rebuy last night at the wabash club in Glasgow.
after the rebuy period ( 1hr 45 mins ) i had amassed 33,000 chips in level 4 - blinds were 400/800
average chips were 12,000 and i think there was only 1 other guy with more than me - about 40,000
anyway this was my exit hand.
On the button - there are 2 limpers - UTG and UTG + 1
action on me i pick up
i bet the pot to try and clear out a couple of players - both limpers call.
flop is
- UTG checks - UTG + 1 moves all in for 8,000.
im sure i have the best hand cos he is loose aggressive and is in a lot of pots with drawing hands, middle pair etc.
my first reaction was to flat call, then I seen UTG counting out his chips as if he was gonna stay in the hand.
so at this point I had 28,000 left and faced an all-in of 8,000
instead of flat calling I decided to push all in for another 20,000
UTG counts his chips down and makes the call with
, the original bettor had
!!!! - bottom pair no draw.
anway turn is the
, river
and im gone.
UTG had an overcard, flush draw and middle pin straight draw so I would probably have called here anyway.
I thought about the hand on the drive home and feel i could have played it differently.
i now think the best action would have been to smooth call the all in, see what came on the turn,
no heart, overcard or straight cards and then move in cos its a lot harder for UTG to call just about all his chips with 1
card to come.
and if he re raised after the flat call i could have put him on 10 10 or 8 8 etc and got away from the hand.
any opinions on how i played it, how i should have played it for future or was it just a case of 2 big hands clashing and
getting outdrawn ? this has been niggling me all night.
cheers Big T
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