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ssbn743
Visionary
Silver Level
Ok, so this hand happened to me in the recent HPT event in Colorado. It was early in the tournament and pretty much meaningless but it just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me and I wonder what the Internet has to say about the subject.
Blinds are 100 200 with no ante in the third level of play at the HPT main event. Starting stacks are 25K and I have about 25K, my opponent has more like 35K and has made some calls that I wouldn’t have made, but they worked out for him so far.
I’m on the button with the Ks 10c. There are 6 limpers in the pot, including the villain from middle position. I raise to 1K with my K 10 and position. Everyone folds except for the villain. Flop Qs Js 4s and he checks it to me. I bet 3K, he quickly calls. The turn is the Kd and he checks again so I follow suit and check, both in the effort of keeping the pot small and getting a free card. The river is the 6h and he suddenly decides to bet 4K.
Now he does have my head all tied up in knots – Q J is the only thing I think he could have the beats my King. I’m literally trying to figure out how I’m beat because I have a suspicion that I am beat but I can’t possibly explain how – Q J, set of 6’s? Or did he miss with the ace of spades? I call the 4K and the villain flips over JJ showing a set of Jacks – wow!
With 5 limpers he didn’t raise pre-flop but instead chose to call check, twice, giving me two free shots at Broadway, a King hit the turn which completes several Broadway draws a fact to which he is apparently oblivious and it was a suited flop. Or, he played it well – I don’t think he did but what do you think?
Blinds are 100 200 with no ante in the third level of play at the HPT main event. Starting stacks are 25K and I have about 25K, my opponent has more like 35K and has made some calls that I wouldn’t have made, but they worked out for him so far.
I’m on the button with the Ks 10c. There are 6 limpers in the pot, including the villain from middle position. I raise to 1K with my K 10 and position. Everyone folds except for the villain. Flop Qs Js 4s and he checks it to me. I bet 3K, he quickly calls. The turn is the Kd and he checks again so I follow suit and check, both in the effort of keeping the pot small and getting a free card. The river is the 6h and he suddenly decides to bet 4K.
Now he does have my head all tied up in knots – Q J is the only thing I think he could have the beats my King. I’m literally trying to figure out how I’m beat because I have a suspicion that I am beat but I can’t possibly explain how – Q J, set of 6’s? Or did he miss with the ace of spades? I call the 4K and the villain flips over JJ showing a set of Jacks – wow!
With 5 limpers he didn’t raise pre-flop but instead chose to call check, twice, giving me two free shots at Broadway, a King hit the turn which completes several Broadway draws a fact to which he is apparently oblivious and it was a suited flop. Or, he played it well – I don’t think he did but what do you think?