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Posted by BluffOnly: Nobody is scared to hold the Kings, but they are not good enough here. You can just fold your way to the ticket.
No, we can't. We are already out of the money places. So we are not able to play passiv any more. And with 3000 in blinds and a 24000 stack we don't have the time to wait for a long time. Even Harrington had played that hand.
Folding would only be an option, if we knew that there are a bunch of complete maniacs at the table who will risk their chips with complete junk.
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lol. jeg don't have too fold every time. but to go all-in in early position, is just sick imo. later she can steal from late pos. with small raises. 8 bb is very enough imo
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i agree with my friend doomdy. she had to play it that way, and has to have no regrets about what she did. It's a pity but sometimes the right thing is not the best option, but that's poker
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Posted by BluffOnly: lol. jeg don't have too fold every time. but to go all-in in early position, is just sick imo.
It is a debateble play. But as i said earlier, it would not have mattered. One player holds an overpair while the other has top pair with top kicker. The chips would gone in even after a normal preflop raise to 3-4 BB. It was just a setup.
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If I only raised peflop and the AQ guy only called my raise then I would have put him all-in after the flop since the flop was good enough for me, so the only other option was folding the hand but beeing one of the smaller stacks I'm always affraid. What if everyone kinda sit's out then I'll loose to much chips and can not make an all-in move anymore that would hurt anyone, that's way I played the hand.
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You guys are talking like poker is 50% skill and 50% luck....... It's not.
ok. the chips would maybe go to the middle anyway.. BUT YOU JUST CAN'T SAY THAT IF YOU WANTS TO ANALYSE POKER
The flop could also have been A-4-8 for eksample. - There's a great chance for an A to show up on the flop. So if you had raised 3*bbm you could still fold.
You can not analyse a hand saying: "The chips would go to the middle no matter what" - That's the same as saying "Poker is mostly luck, so just push"
