$109 NL HE MTT: Sunday millions nut flush draw bubble

[Rajten]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Table Format

MTT

Buy-in

109

VP$IP

22

Game Options

1. Bounty

Currency

$

pokerstars, $100 + $9 - Hold'em No Limit - 2,500/5,000 (625 ante) - 8 players
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UTG: 156,989 (31 bb)
UTG+1: 229,125 (46 bb)
MP: 361,182 (72 bb)
MP+1: 103,277 (21 bb)
CO: 44,877 (9 bb)
BU: 103,511 (21 bb)
SB: 417,753 (84 bb)
BB (Hero): 206,891 (41 bb)

Pre-Flop: (12,500) Hero is BB with 6♣ K♣
UTG raises to 10,000, 5 players fold, SB calls 7,500, Hero calls 5,000

Flop: (35,000) A♣ T♦ T♣ (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG bets 17,500, SB calls 17,500, Hero calls 17,500

Turn: (87,500) A♠ (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks

River: (87,500) 3♦ (3 players)
SB bets 43,750, BB (Hero) folds, UTG folds

It is bubble 1,6k placec paid, 2,2k remaining.

UTG bounty 2,5x starting 22 vpi, sb vpip 30.

I played it very passively, What do you about rasing flop?

 

[Tigroslav]

You played the best way IMO

 

[Andyreas]

Paired boards can be very dangerous to flushes.

I've lost quite a few big pots with nut flush against FH.

So I would not recommend to raise the flop with a pair.

But that's just my opinion.

 

[dallam]

As its close to the bubble, and you have a nice stack to survive this period with less-harm, I would select the hands & positions better.

K6s is already in disadvantage pre, and this is not the type of hand which is possibly double-up you, but having some sweaty fight for the blinds.
As it played UTG obviously can lead here, and does it. But SB-call a very tricky one cause if we are blocking the flush draw, what exactly this person is calling with? Ax or other flush draw combination? I think 10x probably check-raised here. But back to UTG he could easily have all the nuts. So yeah, even with that kind board for us, its just a big risk to lay down on the clubs, and that's just a paralised situation, especially around bubble.

As its not an action hand for me here, I would say rather a blind-grabber, so K6s could work from in an SB-BB or Button situations.

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
Even though K6s is not a great hand, defending your big blind to a min-raise with a suited hand is completely fine. You are paying 5.000 to win a pot of 35.000, so you just need to play postflop well.

Flop
Typically we dont want to build a big pot multiway, when we are not drawing to the nuts. And on a paired board a flush is obviously not the nuts. I also think, its very likely, they have an A or a T, and I dont expect those hands to fold. So if you check-raise, you are just putting more chips in behind, and what is the plan, if someone jam or 3-bet in some way? On the other side folding would be insanely nitty, when you flopped the nut flushdraw. This is the whole reason, why we play suited hands over unsuited ones. So I think, calling here is totally fine and standard.

Turn
Now you are dead to a T or A, so if someone bet again, I would just fold. But it check through.

River
Easy fold.

 

[eetenor]

Another consideration is that it is 3 way and we have to adapt our actions to the fact that we are up against 4 cards not just 2- often we will raise flops with semi bluffs and part of the equity is to get folds but in this spot we have that second player to contend with. As well the board is not favorable to a check raise semi-bluff due to the fact that we can have so few nut combos to balance out our bluffs