Villan seemed fairly solid up to this point. Whats your play on the turn? Im thinking if I call here im facing a decision on the river for my tourny life....

pokerstars Game #24952025248: Tournament #140583129, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXXV (17500/35000) - 2009/02/14 22:30:21 ET
Table '140583129 52' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: bevo54 (783011 in chips)
Seat 2: quaid745 (2320553 in chips)
Seat 7: Kyle Million (1630000 in chips)
Seat 8: SunrayShorty (869032 in chips)
Seat 9: sambhygreen (1071404 in chips)
bevo54: posts the ante 4375
quaid745: posts the ante 4375
Kyle Million: posts the ante 4375
SunrayShorty: posts the ante 4375
sambhygreen: posts the ante 4375
sambhygreen: posts small blind 17500
bevo54: posts big blind 35000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sambhygreen [Ah Ac]
quaid745 said, "and a misclick"
quaid745: folds
Kyle Million: calls 35000
SunrayShorty: calls 35000
bevo54 said, "AA plz dealer"
sambhygreen: raises 85000 to 120000
bevo54: folds
Kyle Million: calls 85000
SunrayShorty: folds
*** FLOP *** [9h Kc Qs]
sambhygreen: bets 175000
Kyle Million: calls 175000
*** TURN *** [9h Kc Qs] [6h]
sambhygreen: checks
Kyle Million: bets 230625
sambhygreen:...................

id jam the flop and the turn

What are you scared of him having here??

KQ, TJ, ATs, JJ, KJ, 99

Raise much bigger pre (5-6x because of the limpers). Given the one player here, I like check-raising this flop, as he has likely connected with a hand you're still ahead of. As played, I still like jamming this turn because the 6 changes nothing about the situation from the flop (unless he's bad enough to call with 66).

Hands you lose to in his range: KQ, 99, KK (not likely), QQ (not likely), JTs
Hands you beat in his range for sure: KJ and suited, KT and suited, TT, QJ and suited, AQ and suited, QT and suited (not likely)

You have to jam here because you checked the turn and forced his bet. It's better to check than bet, but folding here would be really bad due to reasons cited above.

 

Originally Posted by 3kingme3

i really dont feel the need to raise much if any bigger than this pre so dont worry too much. Personally I make it 123456 to go but I digress.

His turn bet is kinda sickening but I really still can imagine doing it but getting it in...sorry you ran into KQ or so :(

this...dont listen to anyone posting before these two imo...your raise pre was fine imo, wtf u have aces 5 handed at a final table, u want action....pretty puke flop too imo, im def hating it in your spot, c bet is good and smooth call is so scary, and in a 5 rebuy, that bet is so wierd, hes praying for you to jam...i fold if im you and LOL at everyone in here who just cant give up aces. please dont ever change thx

if u called, ul gg, its a tough fold regardless...but i give you props on your level of thinking

i make it 144,444 or 155,555 pre..

i bet 222,222 on the flop..

i def get it in on the turn.. i mean hes bound to be opening KQ/99 5 handed with his stack.. i think he has KJ,K10,QJ,Q10 or air enough of the time here..

You have to think about how this hand played out from the limp to the pre flop call to the flat. When I think about what he could have I think he could have KQs to call pre maybe QJs 99 or TJs. So you lead the flop now his range gets narrowed down you can take the KQ and throw it out. I dont think he flatts here with KQ. QJ maybe but QJ is the worst of the 4 hands so I'm not thinking QJ. 99 you lose to. TJ flatting on this flop makes sense. I think you made the right fold here. I see the troll flipping TJ on you. You did screw up pre flop though you should be playing a bigger raise w/ 146K in the pot when it's your turn to act. You should be raising to around 155K here pre flop and be ready to make a huge bet on this flop IMO. $5 donkament be ready for him to be value betting his 66 also. gl

I'm probably jamming the turn here unless I want to try to check/induce bluff/all in.

You have to bet because if you check the turn you have no idea what is going on the villian may just be taking a shot because you backed off after firing the c-bet. Your stack size is such that you can't really make any bet into that pot on the turn other than all-in.

As played I shove on this guy he could have top pair you don't know and even if he has two pair you have a shot at catching up.

At these stakes you lose value in the long run by folding here because so many players will stack off here with top pair. Sometimes the villain will have the absolute nuts, yes, but you cannot justify a fold due to the times you are ahead here and villian is a donk overplaying top pair.

Dealt to Kyle Million [Td Js]

GG Sam. I was getting jiggy since I had the big stack. Truly, calling with my cards was silly, but it worked out great....

Not even soooted, I know. I should have bet the flop, but felt like very little could hurt me on the turn. I wanted you to put AXs in my range w/ possibly having a AhQh or AhKh, but now I see why that didn't work. Flopping the rainbow str8 worked out better than expected.

Yes, my stats suck. I just went through a divorce and the last year has been nearly impossible to focus for periods of time. Hopefully I can re-dedicate myself to pokah. See ya around.

Thanks alot once again Kyle, the hand had been bugging me all day. Its good to have a thread with some actual good poker discussion for once. I know this is a 5r but its also the FT of the 5r I think people are going to be alot less likely to spew of chips with second pair etc especially considering the fairly steep payout for the first 3 places. Anyway, thanks for all the input. If anyone else has anything else to say I'm all ears.
See you on the tables

Sam

TBH, you put in more pre and I'm probably folding. Then again, I was CL and I did have position, so anything is possible. I know I was trying to focus more on each decision so it's possible I'm folding to a bigger raise. I can't recall, but if you were active at the FT then that might have created my call.

And for the record, it was a rebuy... But it was their new structure of 2 rebuys and 1 add-on. Basically, we're talking about a $20 mtt or cubed, not the "official" rebuy some might think of when we say "$5 rebuy".

Touche'. LOL, I've never been good at reveiwing HHs in text. You got me! I'm at work, while replying today. In truth, 1.6mm vs 1mm in chips isn't a lot of wiggle room. Luckily, I came out ahead in that hand but in truth I should have folded pre to ANY raise.