Baby flush on the river facing a bet, 6-max multi

Game type: 6 max no limit multi table tournament
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Stage of tourney: Within the first 3 hands
Avg stack: 3000
Misc notes:
Your hand: 7♥6♥

The setup: It’s the first orbit of the $100 buy in 6-max tournament on Full Tilt, with a field of about 300 players. You are dealt a suited connector on the BB. UTG limps, two players fold and the button raises to 60. The SB calls, you call and UTG calls. Nice flop:

J♥2♥5♥

The SB checks and you decide to take a chance and check. The table checks around, but the turn comes a safe 3♦. Now the SB leads out for 240, the size of the pot. You call and the other players fold, and the river comes the Q♠. There’s 720 in the middle and the SB leads out again for 480. With the pot at 1200, what’s your play?

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drhoho

I am so used to sites where you have to raise with at least the size of the last raise/bet. In this case, the min raise would be 480, raising it to 960.
Hence I voted raise small, meaning something like the raise suggested by the staff. I agree here.

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matt tag

the way he bet after the 3, I have the SB on a 4-something, hopefully A4 pr 64 so the 3 made his str8. I like raise medium, enough to get paid for a good hand but not enough to lose all your chips if he slowplayed a bigger flush.

Brunson calls this “selling your hand”, finding the highest price that someone will call.

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John B.

Smallish raise. I agree that he probably caught a straight with a 4. Don’t want to totally scare him off with a large bet.

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Mary

Raise small (500 on top) and hope to be called and pray that I’m reraised.

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Dickerson

It’s ludicrous in this spot to “pray that I’m reraised.” You hate to get reraised here, and if you do, laying it down is probably best – if he reraises you here he’s pushing. And in a tournament, there is no way you call an all in here for (basically) all of your chips.

I voted call, but if you’re feeling a little greedy I can understand a small raise for value, knowing that a push from villain means a certain fold.

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ichabod

Dickerson – folding to an all-in re-raise here would be silly. If you are beat by a bigger flush then it wasn’t your tournament. If you flop a flush against a bigger flush you are supposed to lose a lot of chips. You absolutely want him to push back here.

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tsifreak

Yea I raise medium here thinking he is sititng on a Jack or possibly jack queen so he may have hit 2 pair. I raise a good amount just so I can get paid off. If he goes over the top of me then I will push.
Another person having a flush in a 6 man table is very very rare and he would have to start out with 2 hearts as well and that is even more rare.
If your scared find another game.

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Ben

Call. This pot is plenty big enough – don’t get greedy. Remember, always endeavor to make the size of the pot relate to the size of your hand. With a huge hand, you like a huge pot. This is a big, not huge, hand. I’m more than happy to call this pot and take it down, since I’m pretty sure I’ve got the best of it.
Raising here, meanwhile, takes an entirely unnecessary risk. If I raise (which I wouldn’t) and he pushes, I’m mucking without a second thought.

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tsifreak

Ben You are missing alot from your game with what you just posted above.
First why wouldnt you raise here to get even more of his money? You are playing scared and there is no reason to.
Two. if he pushes you fold WTF are you serious?? Yea there is a flush that can beat you but seriously what are the odds of that? If your going to play this game and make money you have to risk money to make money but in this situation is it really a risk?? You have a strong made hand .
I dont care if the pot is big enough you can never have enough money its like your trying to save him money.
9.5 times out of ten this player will be sittling on ace jack or Jack queen in this situation.
Im no pro but played enough to know that I have the best hand here.

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Ben

In a cash game, I’m 100% willing to get all my chips in the middle with this hand. A tournament though, especially in the first orbit, the $2260 you have left to match in your stack is worth MUCH more than the $2260 you could potentially win off the SB.
It’s a fatal mistake many players make early in tourneys to think they need to double up quickly to have a shot. While this is a great spot, there’s just absolutely no need to take such a huge stand here at such an early stage when you’re on uncertain ground. Number one lesson I’ve learned in tourneys is to grind it out and don’t take unnecessary risks (like this one).
The pot is close to half of my stack. I’m more than happy with its size already, given the strength of my hand.

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tsifreak

Yea I may agree some what with you in a tourney but I stopped playing them and just went all cash. Every time I look at a hand on here I think playing cash but tournys are little diffrent. I have learned to hate tourneys since there is more luck involved. If Im going to work my ass off I want to get paid its like a second job.

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