Stars $1 MTT KQo 1st hand

First hand of tourny, was there anything I could do?

PokerStars Game #2713912435: Tournament #12957002, Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2005/10/02 - 22:02:00 (ET)
Table '12957002 130' Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: (1500 in chips)
Seat 3: (1500 in chips)
Seat 4: (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: HERO (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: villian (1500 in chips)

Seat 2 posts small blind 10
Seat 3 posts big blind 20

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [Kd Qc]
3 folds
HERO: raises 40 to 60
Villian: calls 60
2 folds
*** FLOP *** [2s 8c Ks]
check
HERO: bets 200
Villian: calls 200
1 fold
*** TURN *** [2s 8c Ks] [2h]

HERO: bets 300
Villian: calls 300
*** RIVER *** [2s 8c Ks 2h] [6h]
HERO: bets 500
Villian: calls 500
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HERO: shows [Kd Qc] (two pair, Kings and Deuces)
Villian: shows [6c Kc] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
Villian collected 2200 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2200 | Rake 0
Board [2s 8c Ks 2h 6h]

Seat 8: HERO showed [Kd Qc] and lost with two pair, Kings and Deuces
Seat 9: Villian showed [6c Kc] and won (2200) with two pair, Kings and Sixes

[TomHimself]

no

[betgo]

Villain should probably raise the river. Villain should also fold preflop.

[Sykes]

fold pf

Unlucky river - you were ahead the whole hand until that river card hit. As an aside, why were you overbetting the pot so aggressively? A flop bet of 200, followed by a turn bet of 300 and a river bet of 500 seems way too high here, especially in the first hand of the tournament. You have no reads on villain and you're driving up a pot to a level where losing it puts you in a bad spot and you are either way ahead or way behind. A check-raise on the flop or turn might have saved you, but I'm guessing that ><> was calling down with his paired King no matter what you did here - even a push wasn't getting him to lay down his 2 pair (even before the river cards help).

[TomHimself]

[ QUOTE ]
fold pf

[/ QUOTE ]and why?

As for the aggression, I had a pretty good hand, and thus wanted to get the most chips possible out of the opponent. and i made him pay to see the cards. That said, I do agree that my 500 bet on the river was too high and maybe even unnessessary, because villian was calling all of my bets and might have already made his 2-pair (or twos-full) with his Kx.

comments?

You played in a $1 micro MTT. You had some donkey call you down when it was obvious he was beat. He hit a 3 outer on the river and got lucky. Bad beat... move on.

For what it's worth I think even if he misses the 6 on the river he still calls. But a check wouldn't have been bad move.