KK utg level 1

[Schmed]

raise it to 80, I get 1 caller

I have 1350 after my raise caller has over 2k.

flop is 3 9 7 all hearts, neither of my Ks are hearts

He bets 100 into the 180 pot, I raise it 300 more, he calls

Turn comes a heart, he bets all in I fold.

I don't think I made any mistakes here but I do wonder if I should have either just called the 100 or reraised all in. At the time I thought that all in was stupid because if he was trying to steal he would fold to that size reraise, I didn't have a heart, he had me covered, and it was too early to be pushing all my chips in.

Not complaining about the beat or anything just wondering what people thought about the reraise.

[Jamie Collins]

Well played all around. You're getting equity out of him now whereas he may not call a bet on the turn.

Alternatively, you could have just called the flop bet and bet/raised big on the turn if no heart or A fell. I prefer this option because my objective is to get him to fold an A or heart. Whereas, the raise 200 more on the flop probably won't get him to fold.

I think it's well played because long-term, either play has about the same ev.

Regards,

Jamie

[Ignatius]

I think you played the hand just fine, including the amounts you raised (assuming you made it 400), which allowed you to take full advantage of having position.

[t_perkin]

I tend to put in a slightly bigger raise preflop usually T100, especially UTG.
You really only want to be up against 1 or 2 people on the flop.
If someone comes in over the top of 100 you know they have a serious hand, then you probably move in and accept it is unlucky if they have rockets.

I don't know what stakes you are playing, if T80 is enough to be up against 1 or 2 others then fine. In the gutters where I play you need at least T100 to get down to only 3 players on the flop /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Other than that all seems fine, the raise you made is the kind of play I like. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Tim