When Two Hands Collide
Empire Poker $1500 Daily, 300 entrants currently 80 left, payout from 40 onwards.
10 handed table, hero UTG +3 (3100 chips), villain BB (4900 chips), blinds 50/100
Table folds to hero who raises to 200 with JJ, table folds to the BB who calls.
Flop comes down 2 6 10 (rainbow)
BB bets out 400, hero raises all-in (I’m happy to take down an 850 pot at this point), BB calls.
BB has 10 3 (os)
Turn comes down with a 6, and the river brings a 10
I’m not posting this hand as a bad beat as the villain had top pair on the board, although his kicker may be a little suspect. To me the flop for a pair of jacks looked perfect but it also looked pretty good for having a 10 in your hand.
Never really had a read on the player as he only moved to the table a few minutes before but my thinking at the time of playing this hand was that to double up at this point in the tourney would put me in the money.
Running the hand back through in my head I can’t find it in myself to ever put the hand down and the BB with top pair has every reason to call. The hand is playing on my mind so my main questions are, have I played this hand badly i.e. was my pre-flop raise weak? was the all-in bet wrong? Do I ever fold this hand? What do you think of the BB play?
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