can you get away from KK?

[Chris Dow]

I dunno, we were all hating on kings and sometimes I like them.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (10 handed) converter

UTG ($101.65)
UTG+1 ($101.65)
UTG+2 ($200.25)
MP1 ($156.50)
MP2 ($165.70)
MP3 ($75.60)
CO ($100)
Hero ($213.75)
SB ($70.50)
BB ($78.25)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. CO posts a blind of $2.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 calls $2, MP2 calls $2, MP3 calls $2, CO (poster) checks, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to $15</font>, SB folds, BB folds, MP1 calls $13, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds.

Flop: ($39) 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
MP1 checks, <font color="CC3333">Hero bets $28</font>, MP1 calls $28.

Turn: ($95) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
MP1 checks, <font color="CC3333">Hero bets $25</font>, MP1 calls $25.

River: ($145) 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
MP1 checks, <font color="CC3333">Hero bets $33</font>, MP1 calls $33.

Final Pot: $211
<font color="green">Main Pot: $211, between MP1 and Hero.</font> &gt; <font color="white">Pot won by Hero ($211).</font>

Results in white below: <font color="white">
MP1 shows 5s 5h (one pair, fives).
Hero shows Ks Kh (one pair, kings).
Outcome: Hero wins $211. </font>

Have faith and don't worry too much when it is aces. The calls these people are willing to make that scream aces (like his $13 cold preflop) are the calls that force you to sometimes get broke KK vs AA. It all comes around.

[HigherPrints]

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Congrats on the great laydown and info.
How did the rest of the WSOP go?

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Rest of day one was excellent. Built my remaining 8000 into about 75K with about an hour to go. I had an amazing run of cards, about 12-15 big pocket pairs and favorable situations to exploit them (plenty of nice second best hands out there) plus I was able to win $30K with a flopped set of 6's verses the big stack. Ended up with around 50K in chips day 1, after spending a few on an aggressive semi-bluff against the Indian guy who was at the final table of WPT at Foxwoods.

Next day I had awful cards (cannot remember a situation where I wanted my opponent to call at any point that day), and went out in about 600th place. Got to play with Bobby Bonilla on day two; he was a better guy in person than I thought he'd be and not a horrible player, probably the best celebrity player I've seen.

All in all it was a fun time. The players in general were extremely tight and as a consequence the blind structure was much steeper than I expected (similar to most online tourneys).

[TruePoker CEO]

Good, well written thread