For this weeks hand i am going to discuss with you all a hand from the iPoker ECOOP main event which took place last night.
The Tournament Details:
Event: ECOOP Main Event $1,000+$60
Starting Stack: 5,000
Prize Pool/Runners: $1,000,000/992
Blinds: 1500/3000
Average Chips: 50,000
The tournament climate:
The bubble has just burst after an extremly drawn out process there are exactly 100 runners left and you find yourself on 131k you are 3rd out of the remaining 100 and have been extremly active in the last 2hrs whilst the last 30 players left with no money, in that time you showed 0 hands but moved from 25k to 70k before having the joy of calling a 40k push with KK. Because the bubble has burst 2 new players have joined the table, one of whom is the chip leader. He is sitting on a 170k stack, you have never played him before.
The hand:
You post the 1500 small blind and are dealt
its a 10 handed table, UTG+1 on a stack of 45k limps, he has been extremely passive in the past 2 hrs and you have been taking extreme liberty's by raising his blind every round, he managed to get a double during the bubble period with AA but other than that has not played a hand of note. UTG+2 is the CL new to the table he also limps for 3k. It then comes to the button who has given you walks for the last 2hrs, he hasn't done anything in 2hrs, he is on 50k and also limps. The BB is playing 40k, you have really been having fun with him, raising his blind every round for about 4hrs, he has even taken to begging you not to in the chat the guy started using his full time every hand 2hrs before the bubble burst, he is the pure definition of scared money.
My action pre flop:
We have multiple street decisions in this pot so i am going to skip ahead to the flop, i decided to raise this pot to 15k, i thought i might get one of the limpers to shove or pick up the 15k in the middle, obviously the only man i was worried about was the CL, of course poker is a bitch so they all pass except the CL who flat calls the 12k more.
What range of hands do you put the CL on? Would you have played differently pre flop?
The flop comes down as good as it gets:
The action is on you and there is 39k in the middle.....