Re: mtt on pokerstars
Before the Flop: You really don't need to play KTs. That is a marginal hand from UTG and your chipstack is deep. That is your first mistake. Why risk playing such a tricky hand out of position? Also, I don't like the mini-raise.
After the flop: Now you're heads-up with a guy who could bust you. You get a pretty good flop, but you still don't have a made hand. You had a chance to check for a free-card that could give you a flush, but you decided to bluff instead and you got check raised. Once you were check-raised, you have to assume he has some sort of hand at this point, which is more than what you have. You have 1k to call to win 4k, which is sufficient odds to draw at your flush especially with 2 overcards. You hit your flush, but get unlucky in the fact that he had made a FH, which is always possible when there are 2 paired cards on the board. You also have to look at the fact that this guy is showing lots of strength in the face of the obvious flush on the board. He could very well have made a flush too and with the 2 paired cards, it is always possible that he has a FH. You made a lot of mistakes on this hand, but the worst one was playing it in the first place. There is no reason to play hands like this out of position against a stack that can knock you out of the tournament.
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