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 Calling an all-in, Aisthesis, 24. Oct 2003 10:57 | ||
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| This is a hand I won, but one that scared the heck out of me at a .25/.50 NL holdem table on pokerstars. I've been at the table for a few rounds, enough to have lost a blind or so and may have won a small pot. Anyhow, I am pretty much at my original stack of $40. A guy who had $80 when I got to the table has been doing some unusual all-ins and is down now to about $36. He's done it 3 or 4 times pre-flop and no one has yet had the guts to call it, although he's clearly on tilt. (he's only doing it once in a while, but often enough to know this isn't restricted to AA or KK) My pocket is a 10 pair, so I limp in for .50. The tilt-guy then goes all-in from the small blind. I decided the 10 pair was good enough for a call, although a loss would have been VERY expensive (by my standards anyway). As it turned out, the guy had KcTc and failed to match up his K, so I won the hand. What do the experts think is really enough to call an all-iner like this, who is on tilt but may still have some semblance of rational play left (he was apparently going all-in simply on playable hands in this case)? For me subjectively, (rational or not) I felt a lot more comfortable with my 10-10 than I would have even with A-K for the simple reason that I actually had a decent made pair and was convinced that he had at best two good cards to draw on. | ||
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