The 20+2 hand that defied all logic!

[spiney]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP1 (t1645)
MP2 (t800)
MP3 (t800)
Depressed Hero (t785)
Button (t785)
SB (t785)
BB (t800)
UTG (t800)
UTG+1 (t800)

Preflop: Depressed Hero is CO with K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, T/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, Depressed Hero calls t15, Button calls t15, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t60) 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/club.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, Depressed Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets t400</font>, SB folds, BB folds, <font color="#CC3333">Depressed Hero raises to t770 (All-In)</font>, Button calls t370 (All-In).

Turn: (t1600) 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t1600) J/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t1600

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Depressed Hero has Kd Th (three of a kind, kings).
Button has Ts Qh (straight, king high).
Outcome: Button wins t1600. </font>

Sometimes I wonder why I even try...

[treeofwisdom7]

/images/graemlins/tongue.gif well i see why your depressed.. i think you played it right

[stanky]

Bad preflop limp. I don't like playing many hands when its this early in the tourny and the BB is 15 so I would of folded. Some people might raise but I don't care much about picking up the $25 blinds.

If I saw that flop I would of bet out, by checking you took a chance of letting 4 people get a free card. If you were the SB or BB then maybe you can go for a checkraise but not when 2 people have already checked to you and there's only one left to act behind you.

-Pete

[spiney]

The pot is t60. In Level 1 this means nothing to me. I would have checked it down to river just to catch someone bluff-building the pot to 2-3 times its current size.

My reasoning is that if I raise I will get called and re-raised only by hands that have me definitely beat (5 such hands including the popular KJo). And I would have still called since this is only a 20+2.

I understand checking and giving up a free card. Then I would claim some blame and would play the turn with more caution given the draws available. But how does someone bet t400 into a pot of t60 with a gut shot. All I can think of is perhaps he meant to bet t40, mistakenly adding an extra zero and bizarrely getting rewarded for it.

[TruFloridaGator]

I don't see why you're not folding this preflop, from there, it's fine.