by Aisthesis » Sun May 29, 2005 3:29 am
Hmmm... pretty weird, I'll say.
If I can avoid the question somewhat, is there any chance of a side-pot here against maniac? I guess he could have QJ to make the whole thing even stranger...
Honestly, I'm not sure that "has hardly played a hand in 30 minutes" is enough for me to assume AA. There can be a lot of reasons for that, and a lot of players like this can have very distorted views concerning hand values.
Am I understanding this correctly here? EP raises to $8, MP calls, pot is now hence $21 (?), you make it $24, SB calls, EP makes it $48? This has to be wrong if you had to call $60. Anyhow, if this was the action, I think your re-raise is a bit passive.
Frankly, all this PF action gets way too muddled for me. Tight opponent or not, I think I'd just push PF. This whole minimum re-raise b.s. just stinks too much for me. If he really has AA, ok, you can at least draw all the way to the river, and, if not, you're ahead.
Imo the whole idea of the KK re-raise is putting AA to the test against a tight player, or else dragging along someone else (and this "playing few hands" doesn't to me say that he won't make this kind of move with QQ or even JJ). If you DO think he has AA, you can call the minimum re-raise to try to set at that point (but setting with the A on the board changes nothing--you haven't outdrawn him).
I'd like to get it settled PF whether he has AA or not. If the issue isn't settled, I think just push it given the opportunity (after this second b.s. minimum re-raise). The fact that SB has been dragged along up to here actually increases the value of pushing KK, I think.
So, to try to make this a bit shorter in summary: If you want to call the all-in here, you should have pushed PF when you had the opportunity. The situation simply hasn't changed (with the exception of the possible made straight, which SB might have).