If you like playing texas hold’em then you know what I’m talking about. Every once in a while you get that itch to test your opponent by over valuing your hand. We all know the best strategy is to be what most would call “tight-aggressive” and you’ll see in the following hand that I was just “aggressive”.
As you can see, I pushed all my chips with pocket 2 also known as the ducks. Why? Well why not! It was a heads up situation in which I could’ve easily called the blind with my remaining stack and fold if he had raised. That’s right FOLD! That would’ve been the only option available to me.
Let’s speculate, if I had just called the 500 and he made it an additional 1K or even 1.5K to call it would’ve been really hard for me to call with the cards and stack I had. So instead of letting him take control of the preflop I tried to take control but who knew he would’ve had a great hand. Still, it wasn’t too bad because the odds were about even so we both had roughly 50% of winning.
I could’ve folded and probably would’ve if I was in a better position stack wise but desperate times call for desperate measures. I was desperately in need of a double up with only the equivalent of 14 blinds give or take and with 1.2K in the pot before seeing the flop it would’ve been perfect to push him into a corner. Because my raise was so high, I figured he would’ve only called if he had a prenium hand.
Also, I did tag this guy as fairly tight player as he never played outside his zone so my read was pretty bad there. Although you can’t see it on the replayer, what shocked me was the time it took him to call me. He basically cold called my raise without a second’s hesitation. I got to admit he changed his rythm at the right time because he did commit about half his stack on live cards… There’s nothing wrong with live cards but committing half your stack is not something you would usually do when you’re tight.
Personally I didn’t like my hand and wished I hadn’t raised (how many times has this happen to you lol) but statistically I couldn’t give it up and being the perfectionnist I am, I just had to over-do-it again…
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actually there was nothing wrong about the push, you had roughly 12-13BB
in most of the times your opponent folds here because they do not always have such good hands, i might have even folded KQ here
nothing wrong man