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wheelz
09-25-2005, 05:12 AM
i'm a tourney noob... not sure how i should play the flop or turn here.

obviously villain is unknown.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (8 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t1500)
SB (t1500)
Hero (t1500)
UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1500)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
CO (t1500)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t60</font>, <font color="#666666">6 folds</font>, Hero calls t40.

Flop: (t130) Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 5/images/graemlins/heart.gif, T/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG bets t80</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t200</font>, UTG calls t120.

Turn: (t530) K/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
ansky451
09-25-2005, 06:10 AM
Gotta raise more on the flop. With your small check raise, he is getting ~3.5-1, and therefore a good price for any draw.

After this pretty bad turn card, I'm check calling down I think. Maybe I'm weak tight in this sort of spot.

Being out of position really sucks.

I actually had a very similar hand in the deep stacks tournament. MP raised, I called from the BB with AQ and check raised on a QTx board, which he called. Turn was a king, and I pushed for ~2/3rds of the pot, he called with ATs. With deeper stacks though, and because its a flush card on the turn, I'd slow down in your hand, and play this very carefully.
wheelz
09-25-2005, 06:36 AM
so raise it to like 280?
ansky451
09-25-2005, 06:46 AM
raising to 370 would be pot sized.
tonypaladino
09-25-2005, 07:27 AM
I would bet t100 on the flop. Don't give UTG odds to call a heart draw.

With a flush draw on the turn, I would check, if UTG checks behing, I bet out the river unless it's a K, then I might consider check-calling
wheelz
09-25-2005, 07:36 AM
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if UTG checks behing, I bet out the river unless it's a K, then I might consider check-calling

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why is that?
tonypaladino
09-25-2005, 03:24 PM
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if UTG checks behing, I bet out the river unless it's a K, then I might consider check-calling

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why is that?

[/ QUOTE ]i guess I get weak when an overcard hits.
XXXNoahXXX
09-25-2005, 03:34 PM
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if UTG checks behing, I bet out the river unless it's a K, then I might consider check-calling

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why is that?

[/ QUOTE ]i guess I get weak when an overcard hits.

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A K already came on the turn. Another K would make me more likely to bet than a J/A/T/heart/etc.

Maybe you misread?
wheelz
09-25-2005, 03:45 PM
what's the general plan if he raises the flop bet? just calling down turn and river blanks?
tonypaladino
09-25-2005, 04:41 PM
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if UTG checks behing, I bet out the river unless it's a K, then I might consider check-calling

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why is that?

[/ QUOTE ]i guess I get weak when an overcard hits.

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A K already came on the turn. Another K would make me more likely to bet than a J/A/T/heart/etc.

Maybe you misread?

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I didn't see the K on the turn, I'm very sleep deprived lately. My bad