Jonathan Little Considers Bluffing Off 100-Big Blind Stack at a WSOP Final Table
With this week's hand I'm returning again to the 2015 World Series of Poker and the final table of the $5,000 no-limit hold'em event.
At the time this hand occurred there were seven players left and I had chipped up to a comfortable stack of more than 100 big blinds — about 3.2 million when the blinds were 15,000/30,000. In the hand my opponent is feared, tough player Jonathan Jaffe
It folded around to Jaffe who raised from the button and I looked down at the powerful 2♥2♦ in the small blind. As I talk about below, this would appear to be a spot where I might just call and set mine, although I'd prefer to reraise and apply pressure. Also if the player in the big blind is decent (which he was in this case), I think three-betting or folding are the best options with my playable hands.
However, I know Jaffe is a loose-aggressive player who is unafraid to play big pots, and not necessarily a great opponent against whom to tangle.
In any case I did reraise to 215,000 — as I say in the video, I wish I had reraised larger — the big blind folded, and Jaffe called.
The flop came K♣J♣5♠ — obviously bad for me — and I had to decide how to approach playing my deuces postflop from out of position.
Take a look and see how I approached it in this situation, and what happened:
Would you three-bet this hand preflop and continuation bet one time and then give up? Would you just call and see a flop? Or would you fold and wait for a better spot? Let me know in a comment below.
Jonathan Little is a professional poker player and author with over $6,300,000 in live tournament earnings. He writes a weekly educational blog and hosts a podcast at JonathanLittlePoker.com. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanLittle.
