What's your move here and why?

------HAND 1------
Early William Hill £20 67 riders (15/30)
Table "Tourney 1541375 - 2" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: Registrar (1450 in chips)
Seat 2: Champer5 (1445 in chips)
Seat 3: Acerclubs (3075 in chips)
Seat 5: Daes265 (720 in chips)
Seat 6: Calv10 (1900 in chips)
Seat 7: dkauto (1090 in chips)
Seat 8: Monty999 (1450 in chips)
Seat 9: enrico (580 in chips)
Seat 10: Fold'em1 (1400 in chips)
Acerclubs: posts small blind 15
Daes265: posts big blind 30
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Registrar [Qc Qh]
Calv10: folds
dkauto: folds
Monty999: folds
enrico: folds
Fold'em1: folds
Registrar: raises to 90
Champer5: folds
Acerclubs: calls 75
Daes265: folds
----- FLOP ----- [4s Ks Kd]
Acerclubs: bets 90
Registrar: ?

I'd put in a good sized raise to like 300. I doubt he bets his trips, and if he raises you, then you can fold I think.

just to add I think his most likely holding here is a mid pocket pair, since you can't call without a K or a high pair.

[Poker Jon]

Marwan,

Depending on the skill level of the player this could back fire.

if he 'doesn't' bet with trips, he might think that you don't 'raise' with trips on the flop either and come back over the top of you with 1010, 99 etc, in which case you can lay have to lay it down.

In most cases though, he's going to lay it down, there
are plenty of 'what if' situations, but a raise probably works most of the time.

[tripp0807]

Got a read on him? Without one, I min-raise. Without anything on that flop for him to draw to, it'll scare the [censored] out of him if he doesn't have a king.

[KramerTM]

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Got a read on him? Without one, I min-raise. Without anything on that flop for him to draw to, it'll scare the [censored] out of him if he doesn't have a king.

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I almost never like the min-raise, and this case is no exception. I don't want to give him any reason to call with his AJ here and spike an A. Put in a good size raise here, fold to a reraise, and be prepared to check behind on the turn if he calls your big flop raise (with the intention of calling a moderate sized bet on the river).

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Got a read on him? Without one, I min-raise. Without anything on that flop for him to draw to, it'll scare the [censored] out of him if he doesn't have a king.

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I doubt he has a K. Registrar raised pre-flop, he called, making Registrar the agressor. Further, the pre-flop raise was "normal" sized. If he held KK, he would have definitely re-raised pre-flop... we can all agree on that. If he had Kx, would he open betting on the flop, or would be check and let Registrar continue his attack? His raise looks more like a probe... Raise him half his stack... OR... if not sure (like you have some read that he could be one sneaky bugger)... Double his raise.

When are you going to tell us what actually happened?

[adanthar]

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I doubt he has a K...His raise looks more like a probe... Raise him half his stack

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sigh

[psyduck]

<font color="red"> omfg, just call down. raising is retarded because if he 3-bets his ace-high or lower pair (as plenty of people would do in a lower-limit MTT) then you're going to be making a bad fold. at the same time, he could have a K here too.

standard wa/wb situation, call down. let him keep betting his small PP or his ace high. type 'ty' on the river when he pushes with 88 and you call. </font>