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I ended up raising to 4k and calling a push. He had A3 of diamonds, and I outflipped him to get a big stack. The whole hand made me feel pretty dirty though. Getting 70ish BBs in on this flop with TPTK just makes me ill. Generally speaking my instinct is to call here if I have a hand that I have to call a push with but wont be happy about. Thing is, when there are a lot of draws out there it makes it a lot harder to figure out the turn and increases the difficulty of your decisions on later streets. So, I took the easy way out. If I had a shorter stack I think its an easy raise, if I had a deeper one, its an easy call, 70x though I felt was right on the border, so I got sloppy and decided not to give myself any tough decisions. One of the main weaknesses of most tournament players is that they are uncomfortable playing the turn and the river. Thing is, the turn and the river are where big pots are won and lost. Thats why good cash game players will play tournaments and have excellent results, even if maybe they aren't quite as good at the nuances of medium/short stack play preflop and on the flop as tournament specialists.
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