A Big Hand Early in a Tournament

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A Big Hand Early in a Tournament
在比賽初期拿到好牌

Erick Lindgren
September 16th, 2009
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/pro-tip/ErickLindgren/199


In the late stages of a tournament, big pairs are generally pretty easy to
play. When you have 20, 30 or 40 big blinds in your stack, and you find a
pair of Queens or Kings, you usually just want to play aggressively, force a
fold, or play a big all-in pot and hope things work out in the end.
當比賽到了後段，該怎麼玩大對子是很容易的事情。當你有20、30或是40個BB時
，拿到QQ或KK，你通常會想玩得有侵略性一點，迫使別人蓋牌或是玩一個大的allin pot
並且希望最後能順利成功。

But early on in a tournament, when the stacks can be very deep relative to
the blinds, I don’t think it’s always a great idea to play big pairs quite
as aggressively. A hand I played this year at the WSOP Main Event
demonstrates the point pretty well.
但是在比賽的初期，當籌碼還非常多的時候，我就不認為每次拿到大對子就玩
得很侵略會是件好事。我在今年WSOP ME玩過的一手牌可以詮釋這件事情。

At the start of the hand, the blinds were 100/200 and most of the stacks at
the table were right around the starting amount of 20,000 chips. One player
raised and another called from late position. I looked down and saw two
Queens.
當時盲注是100/200，而桌上的籌碼有20K。有個人加注，而另一個人在較後面
的位置call牌。我掀起我的手牌並且看到了QQ。

The instinct for many in this situation is to re-raise. But I didn’t like
that option. What would happen if one of the other players in the hand
re-popped me? I’d hate to fold the Queens, but I wasn’t ready to risk going
broke with Queens so early in the tournament.
大多數情況，直覺上會去re-raise。但是我並不喜歡這個選擇。如果其它玩家在
這一手牌突然開火怎麼辦？我討厭fold掉QQ，但我也不想在比賽初期就拿著QQ輸掉。

My re-raise could have also prompted one or both players to just call.
In that case, I would have been playing out of position without having a
great idea of what my opponents held. After the calls, the pot would be
quite large. It could have cost me most or even all of my stack before I
figured out whether I was ahead or behind.
我的re-raise也可能讓一個或兩個玩家都call牌。在這個例子中，我處在一個不
利的位置也想不太到別人會拿什麼牌。如果他們call，這個pot就會變得相當大。這可能
在我定位我的牌是領先還是落後時，就已經花掉我大部份甚至所有的籌碼。


I decided to play a smaller pot and put fewer of my chips at risk, so I just
called.
我決定玩一個小pot，放一點點籌碼。所以我就只是call。

The flop came Jack-high. I checked, the original raiser bet and it was folded
to me. I called – again trying to keep the pot relatively small. The turn
was a blank, and I checked. My opponent checked behind. This check made me
pretty confident that I was ahead. When the river paired the board, I was
happy to put out a value bet, hoping that I could get paid off by, perhaps,
a medium pocket pair.
flop出來是J high。我check，原本在preflop加注的人繼續bet，然後就fold到
我。我call下來-再一次試著去讓這個pot小一點。turn上是個不相干的牌，我check。
對手也check。對手check的這個動作讓我很有信心我是領先的。當river讓這個board湊
成一個對子時，我很開心的做了個value bet，希望能讓中等的對子來付我錢。

As it turned out, my opponent didn’t have enough to call me and I took down
the pot right there.
結果是我的對手沒有call牌，所以我拿下這個pot。

All-in-all, I was happy with the way I played the hand. I put myself in a
position to win a moderate sized pot without incurring any risk of going
broke. Next time you see a big pair early in a tournament, consider trying
to control the size of the pot rather than playing as aggressively as you
can.
總而言之，我很開心我這樣玩這一手。我讓自己處在一個能贏個控制過大小的
pot而不用冒著破產的風險。下一次你在比賽初期拿到了大對子，思考試著去控制這個
pot的大小要勝過玩得很aggressive。



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