During a very boring Sunday session at The Vic last night, I managed to find myself in a spot where let again I over analysed a situation, and through various levels of complex and deep level thinking, made what most people would say a “standard ” hand into an interesting / possibly tough spot.
I want to look at this hand in several ways. Firstly treat the game, and the variables involved as complete unknowns. Let’s say you land in Vegas, jump straight into a game, no one knows you, and you know no one.
It’s a straddle pot, and the action folds around to you in the cut off. You have AK, and you raise it up to 14. The button calls (PLAYER B), and the straddle calls (PLAYER C). Make a note that Player C made the comment “…I don’t have much but I have to defend my straddle…” before flicking in his money.
The flop is K K 10 (two diamonds).
Player C donk leads 20.
With the intention of causing Player C to “spaz out” you min raise to 40.
Player B folds and Player C quickly calls the additional 20.
The turn is a black 2.
Player C checks. You bet 60.
Player C check raises all in and has you covered.
It’s an additional 200 more to make the call.
What do you do?
Now let’s pretend the action plays out the same but you are playing against a solid regular like Rosh or Andre? What do you do then?
What’s more important when you are up against a regular, their knowledge of your range and credibility (or if the case lack of credibility) you have with them, or your knowledge of their range and image?
Taking this line of thought a little further (away from the hand in question), would you prefer to be up against solid regulars who you know inside out (and they know you inside out), when you find yourself in marginal / tough spots?
Complete unknowns and weak players are unpredictable, they could have anything, and you can’t make sense of their “lines”, simply because they don’t take “lines”.
Your information is more incomplete than against a regular right?
So what is your plan here?
A: Against a complete unknown.
B: Against a solid tight aggressive regular who you know and who knows you very well.
C: Against a player who you have played with before, who you tag as weak, and from comments he has made to you thinks you are a “nit”.
Or do you just snap call, you have AK after all, what the fuck are you thinking about?
2 comments:
when you are in Vegas you are gonna be playing against complete strangers so no point analysing it from that. End of the day you have to call and if they turn a set or flop a house good luck.. What else do you expect from AK??...AAA to know you got the absolute nuts... Anyways good luck out there. Im sure you gonna kill. Tell me all about it...
EJ
Mate its a spot where the geezer could have K2 but equallly he could have any other K. In my mind you have to bite the bullet and get it in!
And I would much rather play with players who are not aware of my style tthan those who are, becasue I get exploited by those who know I am very aggressive - eg you fish!
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