Jacki Burkhart
long winded rambler...
Silver Level
This is a live $340 buy in tourney. we are about 2 hours into the tourney and I've got a little more than a starting stack with 13,500. average is around 15,000. Blinds are 100/200/25 so cost per orbit is 525. my M=25 and I have roughly 67 BBs.
UTG+2 I raise it up to 500 with AsQh.
I get 3 callers including the button and the BB. Pot contains 2,325
Flop comes QsTs4s.
So I've flopped TPTK and the nut flush draw. I love the flop and we're 4 handed. BB checks to me and I decide to check and hope to trap and induce some action. I'm not afraid of giving a free card since I've got the nut flush draw (and also saves me money in case somebody flopped the flush and I don't improve).
well, it checks around.
Turn is a Red Jack. I decide to check/call if somebody bets. It checks to the Button who bets out 1,500 into 2325. BB folds and I happily call. I realize I'm not getting odds to draw to my flush, but I may actually still be ahead. The other player folds and it's heads up to the river.
So now the pot contains 5,325. River is a blank small red card. I check and the Button makes the same bet 1,500.
hmmmm....seems suspicious like he's begging for a call. I'm starting to wonder if he flopped the flush. What other hands make sense? 2 pair like QJ or JT. also, he could have turned broadway with AK, but he didn't re-raise preflop....I tank for a while but finally decide I'm getting 4.5 to 1 on my call and I'll be ahead enough times to make this call profitable. He could have a busted draw too...
I call and he flips over AK offsuit so he indeed turned broadway.
How terribly did I misplay this hand?
Should I have bet the flop?
Should I have folded to the small river bet?
UTG+2 I raise it up to 500 with AsQh.
I get 3 callers including the button and the BB. Pot contains 2,325
Flop comes QsTs4s.
So I've flopped TPTK and the nut flush draw. I love the flop and we're 4 handed. BB checks to me and I decide to check and hope to trap and induce some action. I'm not afraid of giving a free card since I've got the nut flush draw (and also saves me money in case somebody flopped the flush and I don't improve).
well, it checks around.
Turn is a Red Jack. I decide to check/call if somebody bets. It checks to the Button who bets out 1,500 into 2325. BB folds and I happily call. I realize I'm not getting odds to draw to my flush, but I may actually still be ahead. The other player folds and it's heads up to the river.
So now the pot contains 5,325. River is a blank small red card. I check and the Button makes the same bet 1,500.
hmmmm....seems suspicious like he's begging for a call. I'm starting to wonder if he flopped the flush. What other hands make sense? 2 pair like QJ or JT. also, he could have turned broadway with AK, but he didn't re-raise preflop....I tank for a while but finally decide I'm getting 4.5 to 1 on my call and I'll be ahead enough times to make this call profitable. He could have a busted draw too...
I call and he flips over AK offsuit so he indeed turned broadway.
How terribly did I misplay this hand?
Should I have bet the flop?
Should I have folded to the small river bet?