This is a hand from a local sunday night pub game. You get the usual 10 - 16 players every sunday night, and I'm the youngest player by about a long shot! The other players are your typical old school 5-card players, ("sure jaysus two pair is two pair" type players), who use this game as a change from the norm. I used to play this game regularly when I started playing poker first, but now only use it for entertainment when bored, as the standard is just unbelievably bad.
The game is a €20 buy-in with a €10 re-buy and top up. We are 6 handed (two tables of 6) and we're playing about an hour when this hand happens:
Blinds are 500/1000
I have approx. 130k (starting stack was 30k).
I have 99 utg and limp for 1000. It's limped around and checked down by the big blind.
Flop is 910J
sb checks, bb bets 2000. I pop it to 5000. The guy in seat 5 ships for around 45k, and the sb re-shoves for 52k.
What is my action?
I'm pretty sure i'm up against a straight in one of the spots, but do I have the odds to call here knowing what i'm up against? (Maths and odds are a very weak part of my game)
P.S. In any other game I play in, I raise the 99 utg here, so I already know that I should have done that
The game is a €20 buy-in with a €10 re-buy and top up. We are 6 handed (two tables of 6) and we're playing about an hour when this hand happens:
Blinds are 500/1000
I have approx. 130k (starting stack was 30k).
I have 99 utg and limp for 1000. It's limped around and checked down by the big blind.
Flop is 910J
sb checks, bb bets 2000. I pop it to 5000. The guy in seat 5 ships for around 45k, and the sb re-shoves for 52k.
What is my action?
I'm pretty sure i'm up against a straight in one of the spots, but do I have the odds to call here knowing what i'm up against? (Maths and odds are a very weak part of my game)
P.S. In any other game I play in, I raise the 99 utg here, so I already know that I should have done that
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