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LIVE MTT - Kc5c in SB on 8c 4c 5x flop
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March 6, 2016 - 4:19 pm
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Hello All!

I got this hand from a listener, and I am going to talk about it on an upcoming podcast.  I want to get everyone’s opinion.  This is all the information I have:

 

I played in a live tournament starting stack 5K 15 levels blinds were 25/50.

I have K5cc (in the small blind) and complete the 50 bb since no raise happens (8 players=400). I had 3575 to start the hand. The flop comes 845cc. So I had a pair and a flush draw. I check and so does everyone else. The button bets 350. I tank and see how much $$ is in the pot.  What would you do here?

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I’m sure some people would raise to around 1100 here, but I don’t like that too much. If you raise you’re likely to get called rather than re-raised, and there are very few turn cards on which button is likely to fold a better hand than yours, so you’re inflating the pot and forcing yourself into an awkward turn bluff which probably isn’t going to work.

Check-calling still leaves you plenty of options even with the awkward bet/stack sizes, so I’d go with that. I suppose check-shoving is theoretically an option given that there’s a fair amount in the pot already, but I think button rarely folds given the big sizing, and your equity versus their bet-call range probably isn’t great.

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Ya, clear call IMO, and good flop check. Only reason I’d raise is if I had some reason to think V would make a super-nitty laydown with top pair or something. But you’re pretty far ahead of his bluffs and although you aren’t far behind his value hands you aren’t likely to make them fold either. To the extent that people are inclined to raise here, I find that’s based more on “I don’t like playing turns” than on any clear idea of where the value in raising comes from.

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