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Winston Taylor
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Tournament: £60 buy in £8k guaranteed (Live)
Starting stack: 50k
Level 2: 150/300 (50 ante)
Hero stack: 70k
Villain stack: 75k
I pick up QdQc in the big blind. There are 5 limps preflop including the button (villain). I raise it up to 3,000 (my reasoning for this is there have been a lot of limp callers in this tournament and this is not a hand I would like to play 6 ways so I would rather isolate one or two players). It folds round to the button who calls.
The flop comes down 3h4c10c.
I lead out for 3,200 (I guess I should make a case for charging some draws incorrect odds to call but I don't want to price out smaller pairs or two overs and not extract any value). The button reraises to 13,200, to which I call (I thought about raising here, but again I don't want to price him out with hands he is either scared of draws with or a draw itself).
The turn comes 8c.
I don't really believe he has much of anything here due to his aggressive nature in previous hands, so I check to induce a second barrel. The villain then goes all in, which has me covered. I elect to call (reasoning here as previously said is I don't really believe he has much of anything on that board, plus if he has a made flush I have the queen of clubs to potentially draw to a higher straight (except against Ax Kx of clubs)). The villain turns over 9h7c.
The river comes Jh.
And I pick up my coat and leave.
Is this the correct line to be taking, what could I have done better? Could I have reraised the flop or should I have lead out on the turn?
Starting stack: 50k
Level 2: 150/300 (50 ante)
Hero stack: 70k
Villain stack: 75k
I pick up QdQc in the big blind. There are 5 limps preflop including the button (villain). I raise it up to 3,000 (my reasoning for this is there have been a lot of limp callers in this tournament and this is not a hand I would like to play 6 ways so I would rather isolate one or two players). It folds round to the button who calls.
The flop comes down 3h4c10c.
I lead out for 3,200 (I guess I should make a case for charging some draws incorrect odds to call but I don't want to price out smaller pairs or two overs and not extract any value). The button reraises to 13,200, to which I call (I thought about raising here, but again I don't want to price him out with hands he is either scared of draws with or a draw itself).
The turn comes 8c.
I don't really believe he has much of anything here due to his aggressive nature in previous hands, so I check to induce a second barrel. The villain then goes all in, which has me covered. I elect to call (reasoning here as previously said is I don't really believe he has much of anything on that board, plus if he has a made flush I have the queen of clubs to potentially draw to a higher straight (except against Ax Kx of clubs)). The villain turns over 9h7c.
The river comes Jh.
And I pick up my coat and leave.
Is this the correct line to be taking, what could I have done better? Could I have reraised the flop or should I have lead out on the turn?