Brutal Way of Cracking Aces (tourney)

GOOD BEAT

Sometimes you take it, and sometimes you give it. I gave it this time, though I was never in any danger of busting out. I do believe that having a bigger stack gives you an edge at times on PS and this is just another example of that.

I've been reading Gus Hansen's book and in it he talks about math a lot. He calls a lot of raises because he is usually getting the correct odds to call.

In our case, I decide to try to steal by being on the button. Little did I know the villain had pocket aces. It was probably a bad idea to raise with 83o especially against a short-stack, but I wanted to be aggressive. So let's do some analysis.

When I raise, the villain re-raises the minimum just to extract a little more money from me. Usually, a minimum raise like that, especially when you're the short-stack, indicates a very big hand. I knew this, but with a minimum raise, I'm getting close to 4-to-1. He's closer to being a 5-to-1 favorite so my call is still pretty bad. However, I obviously didn't know he had aces, so if he had something like AKs, I'd be correct with calling.

The villain wanted to keep extracting money from me and his check is very good. He led me to believe he didn't hit anything with such garbage on the board. He's a 3-to-1 favorite on the flop. I'm getting about even money when I put my bet in, so it's a bad bet.

Thankfully, Lady Luck had me in mind and allowed me to sneak one past the villain with a runner runner flush. It's pretty sick and these are the type of beats that make you want to quit.