preflop: you can flat or 3bet this hand. it's very close. I'll let my recent history decide. If I've been very active I'll flat. if it's the first hand i've played in a while I'll 3bet.
flop: we flop 2 pair. this is incredibly good and we should be looking to get it in if we can. at only 25bb effective villains do NOT have to have a flush to stack off. we need to deny equity to flush draws while simultaneously gaining value from flush draws and other Ax.
I would bet in the neighborhood of 1,500 -2,000.
we CANNOT let a spade come off for free and let the random
in the BB win this pot!!! also, if a spade comes it kills our action completely because any hand that doesn't beat us will simply fold. BET! please for the love of god....BET!
Turn: ok....so....we didn't bey the flop; darn but.....THat's cool cuz it's a safe turn card! we are happy! we still have the best hand most of the time! BB leads 1,000 into 2,850. seems like a stab. a spade trying to name it's price, or a 1 pair hand trying to deny equity to spades. once the action comes to us on the turn the pot has 4,850 and we have 6,600 back. Guess what that is? just a little more than a pot sized jam!!! (you add your call to the size of the pot when calculating a pot size for a jam). JUST TAKE IT DOWN! jam it in. if they flopped a flush oh well...that's a cooler and you're not even drawing dead. if they have a spade you're giving them a bad price. most importantly....let's consider what happens to our life when we do anythin else besides jam
our options with 2 pair on this safe turn card:
fold: gross. lose my number if you fold here. lol. jk. but really....don't fold
call: ok so the pot has 4,850 and we have 6,600 back and we call making the pot 5,850 going into river and we will have 5,600 back. so we will have less than pot on river. so we will essentially have the best bluff catcher on river and if a spade doesn't come we will be forced to put it all in anyways. if we are going to have to stack off vs a flopped flush either way....may as well deny equity NOW vs the flush draws and also just gain the tourney life equity of taking down this sizeable pot now.
raise some other size besides all in: I guess you could if you're committed to just never folding no matter what comes on river. but that seems silly. sometimes in tourneys a single spot is meant to define the rest of the tourney for us. Do we really want to keep something like 2,000 back so we can fold to shoves and have 7bb back? nah. not me.
in conclusion: yes. be more aggressive on flop. be more aggressive on turn. river? call. the spades brick. if he flopped a flush good for him. I have 2 pair. show me your flush.
