3 handed KT

[wjmooner]

I don't really like how I played this hand. Villian in the SB plays this 20$ SnG like it is limit and autobets 80% of the flops in the SB. I haven't gotten any hands to play back at her and I've missed like 10 flops in a row, so here we are. I raise the minimum on the flop because I figure to be ahead of like 90% of her hands.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (3 handed)

Button (t5520)
SB (t5360)
Hero (t2620)

Preflop: Hero is BB with T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
Button folds, SB completes, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t400</font>, SB calls t200.

Flop: (t750) 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 7/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets t200</font>, Hero calls t200.

Turn: (t1150) J/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets t200</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t800</font>, SB calls t600.

River: (t2750) K/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets t1000</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t1195</font>, SB calls t195.

Final Pot: t5140

Results:

<font color="white"> Villian turns over AT for the nuts. Can't say I saw that one coming. </font>

WJ

[AceFace]

Raising the turn with just a draw is bad IMO. Just call and try to draw out cheaply.

[rjb03]

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I don't really like how I played this hand. Villian in the SB plays this 20$ SnG like it is limit and autobets 80% of the flops in the SB. I haven't gotten any hands to play back at her and I've missed like 10 flops in a row, so here we are. I raise the minimum on the flop because I figure to be ahead of like 90% of her hands.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (3 handed)

Button (t5520)
SB (t5360)
Hero (t2620)

Preflop: Hero is BB with T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
Button folds, SB completes, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t400</font>, SB calls t200.

Flop: (t750) 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 7/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets t200</font>, Hero calls t200.

Turn: (t1150) J/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets t200</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t800</font>, SB calls t600.

River: (t2750) K/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">SB bets t1000</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t1195</font>, SB calls t195.

Final Pot: t5140

Results:

<font color="white"> Villian turns over AT for the nuts. Can't say I saw that one coming. </font>

WJ

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Even if you were ahead 90% of her hands, you are not a 90% favorite and this shouldn't justify a min raise if you think you can steal more often.

[SmileyEH]

raise more preflop, if the SB is going to bet weak like that raise it up, otherwise fold. You have no idea what he has and you are drawing to either 3 or 6 outs. yuck.

-SmileyEH

[Benholio]

First, I would raise more than minimum pre-flop. Minimum raises are really bad (usually)! Raise 3x or more if you are going to raise pre-flop.

Postflop, well, if you called the flop bet in order to bluff at a later street, it wasn't that bad of a line. As soon as you get called on the turn you have to be prepared to fold the river unimproved, but unluckily for you, you DID improve. You definately can't release your hand after the king comes.

Overall really I don't think it was played that badly, except the pre-flop raise. Alternately, you could have tried to take pot down on the flop with a raise, but that isn't much different than waiting for the turn (except it would require potentially less chips to make a proper raise).