The Turn from Hell: Any callers?

[Dave D]

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Stars $10 MTT, villain has been playing tightly and slowplayed big pairs:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) converter on zerodivide.cx

Hero (t1560)
MP2 (t2960)
MP3 (t4835)
CO (t1320)
Button (t990)
SB (t2225)
BB (Villain) (t1650)
UTG (t2275)
UTG+1 (t2820)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG calls t30, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t130</font>, <font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, Villain calls t100, UTG folds.

Pot is t305

Flop: (t305) Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Villain bets t270</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t630</font>, Villain calls t360.

Pot is t1,565

Turn: (t1565) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Villain bets t890 (All-In)</font>, Hero (who has t800 left)???

Call or fold? Why?

BTW, the converter has been messing my HHs up for a while, and never shows pot sizes ... any suggestions (apart from hand correcting as I tend to do)?

Best,

McMelchior (Johan)

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Correct me if I'm wrong...but it seems like you pretty much min raised the flop. Why?


I would have pushed the flop. Even if he folds you still win a little more than 1/3 of what you had before the hand started, I think you can be happy with that. But with the flush/straight draw on the board, I don't see any way of "charging him more than he should pay" than pushing.

If villian had top pair, you got unlucky, sorry man.

[mlagoo]

i understand what you're saying about your flop raise a la FTOP, but i think "the random internet player" will often call your push with a naked Q, with a flush draw, and even sometimes with like JJ or TT.

i think you should just push the flop. on that turn, it looks as if you have enough chips where you can fold and still play poker. i would fold here. the only (somewhat reasonable) hands you're beating at this point are 88-JJ, maybe A7. You're behind any Q, any two clubs, any set (FH), and AA.

And actually, you've called him tight, so I think we can eliminate 88-99 and A7. So it looks like you're ahead of squarely TT-JJ, and not much else. I dump it here.