Calling is not a good play unless you plan on shoving any non ace flop. Calling and seeing a flop and watching an Ace or paint flop will make you throw up in your mouth being out of position. If you check, he will most likely put you all in and you now have a very tough decision. 1010 will not flop a set and see at least 1 overcard 62.9% of the time per Mike Caro's misery index.
Say you call and flop comes with one over or more and you fold to his bet. (assuming you dont shove any flop). Now you have 2600 in chips left with the blinds coming in 1 hand. One orbit costs you ~1200 chips. If you don't get a hand utg or in the bb you are quickly becoming severely short, to the point of being irrelevant.
I push his awkward reraise attempt everytime here. If it was an elaborate ruse to get action with his AA/KK so be it. If he had AA or KK you would get stacked on this flop anyways. You have to bet your overpair and any bet on the flop basically committs you since the stacks are short.
Granted folding is another option, but think you are ahead here more than you are behind.
All in two card poker stinks, but with the fast structure, you need to get chips now. I think worst case you are against two overs. More than likely you are against 1 over and are in great position to double up.Statistics: Posted by Horshak — Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:36 am
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