Dream situation for KK

[CrisBrown]

Hi All,

With the difficult KK hands posted today, I thought I'd offer another kind of KK hand.

Situation: $2/4 NL ring on PokerStars. I have $1093 and am the chip leader at the table. I've been playing solidly by and large, though recently I've been caught on a couple of bluffs in smallish pots (i.e.: nothing that hurt me very much). The relevant opponents are MP with $426 and CO with $365. It was CO who caught those two bluffs. I have K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] UTG.

I limp, with the intention of reraising big if I'm raised. I'll do this about half the time with KK, depending on how the table is playing. The table has been rather aggressive lately, so I figure I'm sure to get a raise. MP calls. CO calls. BB calls. Oh well, so much for the raise. (Pot=$10)

Flop: 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Oh nice. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] BB checks. I check. MP bets $8. CO raises to $24. BB folds. I raise to $105, wanting to charge any draws severely. MP folds. CO calls. (Pot=$220)

Turn: [7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]] Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Ahh ... glad the flush didn't fall. I look at my opponent's stack, and I want him pot-committed. I bet about half of his stack ($125). He calls. (Pot=$470)

River: [7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]] 5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

I set him all-in ($131) and he calls. I take the $750 pot. I had put him on 77, but the hand history shows he had Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. I suspect he called at the river because he'd already put 2/3rds of his stack in this pot, and because he'd caught me on those two small bluffs earlier. That or he just read me for an idiot.

Cris