Short-Handed Sit and Go Example: part 2
This is the second part of the series about the following tournament:
Details:
Full Tilt Poker > $22+$2 Texas Hold’em Sit and Go Tournament
6 Players; Starting Chips: 1,500
Prize Pool: $132 (1st $85.80 2nd $46.20)
Part #2
The next few hands were very weak and I opted to mostly sit back and observe the other players instead.
- Blinds: 50/100
- Chip Stack: 4,155
- Position: 1 place before the dealer
- Hand: J♠10♠
Suited connectors are very dangerous cards to play, and require some careful analysis.
The player under the gun raises to 300. I’ve identified this player as a very loose player and a raise in early position is not uncommon and he’s made this type of raise before with questionable hands such as A♠5♣.
Everyone folds around to me and with the chip lead in late position I immediately make the call.
The dealer and the small blind fold, and the BB makes the call. The BB is a very tight player and so far has only been playing premium hands.
The flop comes
4♠ 7♦ 5♠
I have 9 outs to the flush, or roughly 2:1 odds against it (9 divided by 47 unseen cards).
The BB bets 600 in a pot of 950.
The other player folds around to me.
With pot odds of 1.5:1 versus my 2:1 odds of making the flush by the river I’m not getting the right odds to call and considering that I’m up against a tight player who’s most likely holding a strong pair, in the 10-10 range I decide to fold.
Post Game Analysis
This hand ran through my head for the rest of the tournament and I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d made the right call. I checked my notes and something which hadn’t caught my attention was the fact that my opponent only had 990 chips left after making the raise. This is was a crucial piece of information because if he was willing to bet 60% of his chips on the flop there was no doubt he would have pushed all-in on the turn.
A few hands later a very similar situation arose with this same player and another player. Player 1 raised to 400 pre-flop and only one Player 2 called. The flop came
A♠ 10♦ 3♦
Player 1 bet 800 and Player 2 pushed all-in for 1,400, Player 1 called immediately and showed
A♦-K♦. Player 1 had A♣-7♦ and lost when the J♦ came on the river.
This simply added confirmation to what I already knew that Player 1 is a very tight player.
Now we were down to 4 players.
This series continue in: Short-Handed Sit and Go Example: part 3
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