Bust out a lot of times in top pair.

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I play a lot of tourneys, I usually build my large stacks in suited connectors, set and straight up to middle tournament. I notice when I have AK, AQ then have a top pair hit on the board on the flop like K,8,7 or Q,9,6 offsuits. Most of the time I go all in on this flop after I raise 3-4bet preflop. Because somtimes I slow play or C-bet they hit their draws on the turn and the worst is they will hit their set on the turn holding 55,44,33 and your your drawing dead on the river.
I always tell to myself that's Poker but if I watch wsop, replays of big tourneys in pokerstars, lokks like they can easily avoid this situation. They can fold that hands like that and give up the C-bet on the turn when a preflop and flop caller reraise the C-bet on the turn. For me I always think its a bluff just to get a big pot have a top pair but not a best kicker.
 
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hi
dont fold hands like these.only when you both have a very deep stack you might think of folding
overbet the pot when there is a dangerous flop with draws
 
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Need more information about the style of opponent and the effective size of the stack.

But i can say for sure, that overplaying a one pair hand is probably the single biggest postflop leak
 
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Agree with horizon ^^^

It all depends on your opponent and how they have been playing ..
Alot of players nowadays seem to overplay there "TOP PAIR" which gets most of them into trouble..

Poker players who actually take notice about how others play will pretty much know if there "TOP PAIR" is beat or not ..
 
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Try play only for u cards, for some time, and dont play postflop with small stack. Or if u play postflop, check your "bets" and "raises" for pot.
 
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When you are deep in tournaments i think you need to adjust your betting a bit. There is no reason to risk your entire stack on just top pair, Many times people will hit their turn set or hit their draws, but thats why you should value bet the flop turn and river to give yourself more information about where you are in the hand, Keep your chips up and keep it moving, There is no reason to risk your entire stack unless the blinds are very deep and you have like 25 or so BBs left w top pair. This is why many pros bet something like 1/3 pot on flop so much, to give themselves more wiggle room to figure out where their opponent is coming from and what cards they may have, and if you watch professionals they will let themselves get bluffed over and over again until they have something they know is very far ahead and then bust their opponent hard. This is the better way to play the tournament, Dont risk your chips unless you absolutely have to. Good luck at the tables.
 
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You have to understand, online is totally different from live.

For online, top pair is not so great but for live, its a great hand.
 
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As i am a cash player and not a tourney player, i cannot give the best advice out there, but i will give you my advice for high pockets.

Pre-flop. Raise 3 times the blinds. or JUST CALL A RAISE IF IT GETS RAISED BEFORE YOU.

FLOP Say you have Kc Kd flop comes Qs 6h Js, Again raise 2-3 times blinds or Just Call a raise. Never over bet the flop with High pockets if you didnt hit a set on the flop. And even if you hit a set on the flop, Only raise 4-5 times the blind.

Hope this helps

-Devan
 
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Yes, you need some info on the opponent too. At least you was sitting with him for some rounds right? Maybe even played couple of hands with him.

Anyway, if you are deep enough, you have to be ready to fold even top pair with good kicker.

And don't overplay it. I know you are afraid they will hit good card on turn. But common, its just one card. There are much bigger odds they already hit the two pair/set.
 
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depends a lot of the blind structure, which in turn determines the stack sizes players have relative to the blinds.

If it's the beginning of the tournament and you have around 100BB or more, tptk won't hold up much unless you are against fish. Later on though everyone's stack gets much much smaller. relative stack sizes go down to the point that people don't have enough behind for implied odd hands to make much sense. so TPTK and overpairs are usually going to be the best hands here, because people aren't going to call pocket 4s for 2 or 2.5BB when they have a 15BB stack hoping to get a set (they might shove them, but that's a whole 'nother story.)

So you can't really avoid it when stack sizes are small.
 
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