For some reason, FTP has a $54321 guaranteed tournament today where everyone started with 4321 chips. I played this hand about three hours in. I got an unlucky flop, but I thought this was kind of an interesting play:
Full Tilt Poker, NL Hold’em Tournament, 200/400 Blinds, 50 Ante, 9 Players
LeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter
BB: 5,974
UTG: 25,181
UTG+1: 34,838
UTG+2: 9,486
MP1: 10,637
MP2: 11,590
CO: 27,549
Hero (BTN): 10,450
SB: 16,608
Pre-Flop: (1,050) K
K
dealt to Hero (BTN)
UTG raises to 1,250, 3 folds, MP2 calls 1,250, CO folds, Hero calls 1,250, 2 folds
Flop: (4,800) 9
A 7 (3 Players)
UTG checks, MP2 checks, Hero checks
Turn: (4,800) 3
(3 Players)
UTG bets 2,000, MP2 calls 2,000, Hero folds
River: (8,800) Q (2 Players)
UTG checks, MP2 bets 3,900, UTG folds
Results: 8,800 Pot
MP2 mucked and WON 8,800 (+5,500 NET)
I had two reasons for doing this. The first was that a reraise would show tremendous strength. It would commit 10,500 chips against an UTG raise of 1250 and probably would get action only from QQ, AK, and maybe JJ (and AA of course, but that’s no good.) Hopefully I can trap a much wider range of hands post-flop, at the risk of occasionally seeing an A or getting trapped myself by a set or something.
The second reason was that the BB had a nice shoving stack. I was hoping to entice a squeeze play from him and maaaaaaaaaybe even get one of the others to isolate him with a wider range than they would have taken up against a squeeze from me.