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  • Final table small stack

    Posted by de-niceaces on January 26, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    I really don’t care about the outcome here. I would benefit from just breaking down the hand and seeing if there are some lessons here.

    Seat 1: Jp 10356 in chips). BB

    Seat 4: Dai (17288 in chips)

    Seat 5: DE-NICEaces (8781 in chips)

    Seat 6: 1dr (35967 in chips)

    Seat 7: Mike7 (32009 in chips)

    Seat 8: Bio3 (25599 in chips) small 300 SB

    ante 75

    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to DE-NICEaces [Ts 9h]

    Dai2: calls 600

    DE-NICEaces: calls 600

    1dri: calls

    600
    Mike7: folds

    Bio3: calls 300

    JP: checks

    *** FLOP *** [6h 5s 9s]

    Bio3: checks

    JP: bets 2600

    Dai2: folds

    DE-NICEaces: calls 2600

    1dr folds

    Bio3: folds
    ***

    TURN *** [6h 5s 9s] [Js]

    JP: bets 7081 and is all-in

    DE-NICEaces: calls 5506 and is all-in
    Uncalled bet (1575) returned to JP

    *** RIVER *** [6h 5s 9s Js] [8s]
    ***

    SHOW DOWN ***
    JP: shows [6c 5c] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)

    DE-NICEaces: shows [Ts 9h] (a flush, Jack high)
    DE-NICEaces collected 19662

    jim replied 2 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • taylormaas

    Member
    January 27, 2022 at 9:48 am

    Just fold pre. When you are short stacked you want to pick your spots selectively. You correctly see this as a spot where you shouldn’t jam pre-flop, but limping also depletes your stack. With pay jumps on a final table, its best to conserve what you can and don’t slowly fade into a very short stack.

  • jim

    Administrator
    February 1, 2022 at 10:19 am

    it’s a boring answer but I agree with Taylor – you will find better spots in which to invest your chips, this is probably a fold preflop. Once you get to the flop, when the player bets that size (looks like close to full pot or so) you are in a tough spot with a weak top pair hand that needs runner-runner to improve to a very strong hand so i think there is a conversation to be had about what flop action to take, but I’m pretty sure we could make a good argument for many different actions, so that’s a trickier question. Thanks for posting, @De-niceaces and I hope you drop some more hands in here for us to discuss!

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