Whenever you are fortunate enough to be dealt or , you want to do everything in your power to get all in — in a way that makes your opponents think you don’t have a premium hand.
But sometimes it won’t work out!
Take a look at this hand I played in a $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em event from last summer’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
The hand came early in the tournament during the very first level. As you’ll see, a short-stacked player opens with an especially large raise preflop (5x the big blind), another calls, then another reraises over that before it gets to me in the big blind with .