[Rushmore]

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35 minutes into the WPT Championship. Blinds are 50-100, and everyone has around 50k in chips. Two limpers, you limp with KQo, button limps. Now the big blind raises to 750, everybody calls. Five to the flop.
Flop Ks6d5c. Checked around.
Turn Qs. Check, check, limper bets 3500, now you raise to 10,000. Now the button goes all in. All fold to you.
Do you call or fold?

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Do you really have to call the big blind's preflop raise?

Assuming you do, do you really need to check along on the flop?

Assuming you needed to do these two things, raising to $10K on the turn looks great.

I'd be hard-pressed to believe you have the best hand after the button goes all-in. I'd have no problem mucking this hand, especially since it's more difficult for the button to be bluffing because it's bet by a player who might easily hold KK or QQ, and then RAISED by a player who clearly has a hand, and that hand can only be top two or better with this board.

Looks like an easy fold.

Assuming all the rest of it was necessary in the first place.