$225 NLHE MTT: OOP TPTK all heart flop

[Jacki Burkhart]

This is a Live $225 NLHE shootout tourney. We started with 10,000 chips and 10 players and I have to win my whole table to move on to the next round. we still have 10 players and I have about 12,000 in chips.

Blinds are 100/200 no ante.

I am in the BB. It folds to the HJ who has just been sitting tight on his stack, he probably has 10,000. If I had to sterotype him I wouldn't call him a nit because he is young and he is intently watching the action like he is gathering reads on all of us. So I believe he is a young, thinking player who is playing TAG right now but he may plan on changing gears at some point.

HJ raises to 500. It folds to my BB and I have .

Normally, I would fold a hand like ATo OOP vs a tight player, but again I don't think he's actually a nit and he is in late position. I think 3betting would be a bad play essentially turning my medium strength hand into a bluff vs a possibly strong range and I'd have to fold to a 4bet, or otherwise play an inflated pot OOP vs a player who I don't know anything about yet, so I elect to flat.

Pot contains 1,100

Flop comes

action is on me. What should I do? Should I donk bet? How much? Should I check raise? Should I check-call?

 

[Ambur]

Blinds are 100/200 no ante.


Normally, I would fold a hand like ATo OOP vs a tight player

Pot contains 1,100

Flop comes

I think you do not want to hear my oppinion on this hand, fold preflop lol Since i believe it takes you on really tough spots overall vs thinking player! he is young, but he is not a monkey!

As played: whatever you do, but do not commit yourselfe postflop. imo

 

[ZekeRam]

Check calling is fine here, you don't want to play an inflated pot on the turn as well. I'd fold most bets on 2nd and 3rd street too unless a 10 or non-heart A pops.

 

[Jacki Burkhart]

In game I decided to donk bet half pot with the plan of shutting down/pot controlling the rest if the hand and obviously folding to aggression or a terrible run out.

He thought for a minute before folding. I don't know if donk betting or check/calling is the better line but at the time I felt that giving a free card was too risky because overs and hearts are all bad for my hand so that's like a third of the deck that makes my hand really tough to play.

 

[ZekeRam]

I don't think donk betting is optimal here, there's not enough money in the pot to warrant, dare I say, a steal. A wet board plus his position is the perfect setup for a float. If he calls, there's no pot controlling here since the only move you have is to check, 2 barreling is way too risky since that'll put 18-20% of your chips in the pot.