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World Series of Poker (WSOP) Situation: $200 buy in tournament. 1,000 entrants with the 500 remaining and the top 100 getting paid. Blinds / Antes: $400 / $800 / $50 Your Position / Stack: UTG / $12,000 Your Hand: AhJh Action: It’s your 1st hand at this table. Small blind is short stack at the table with $5,000 chips behind their blind. Button is chip leader at ...the table with $35,000.
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3x it and fold to a ship i reckon. looking at blind setup and being utg, gonna be expensivo to play this hand to river me thinks. if button raises me id consider re-popping it allin, table and player dependant.
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You don't want to get too committed to this hand in early position considering you could easily end up short-stacked calling a re-raise. But I think I would raise. They don't have any information on you either. Maybe raise to 2200 and fold to a raise. Not sure if that's the right way. Assuming someone in late position calls I would c-bet all-in if the flop had one high card or if it was J high.
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Even with antes, I would just raise to 2k. It should get the job done by showing enough strength without having to put in a pot sized bet, potentailly saving chips. UTG its unlikely that you get re-raised unless someones got something that has you dominated, so fold to a re-raise unless its the SS. C-bet the flop as any caller is probaby set mining here, any face card should get them to fold. @BMWman are you not putting in ansers to your questions?(your thoughts)
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Posted by B1gfoot: Even with antes, I would just raise to 2k. It should get the job done by showing enough strength without having to put in a pot sized bet, potentailly saving chips. UTG its unlikely that you get re-raised unless someones got something that has you dominated, so fold to a re-raise unless its the SS. C-bet the flop as any caller is probaby set mining here, any face card should get them to fold. @BMWman are you not putting in ansers to your questions?(your thoughts)
@B1gfoot, yes sir I do. Sometimes I wait until a few comments. If I reply with a comment before anyone else does, it will turn it into an edit of the post. So my thoughts on this are: I usually fold the 1st few hands at a new table, depending on the cards of course. But my first instinct is to fold, on the other hand you got suited connectors here. I don't do well with them these days, if i do not fold i'm raising at least 4xbb. In my luck, gonna lose lolll..
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Small raise, If button folds and bb shoves then call. If button re raise us then call or fold (we dont have informations about this player so if re raise is big I recommend fold here)
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I know I would not raise, but would call up to 3xbb. Any further decisions would be based on flop. Probably very disagreeable decision, but that's how I'd play it. Enjoy the daily questions BMW! Always make me think! Good Luck to All!
