Second pair on the turn, Poker Stars Sunday Million

DailyHandQuiz

Game type: No limit tournament, Poker Stars Sunday Million
Stage of tourney: 13 remain
Avg stack: 7m
Your image: TAG
Opponent’s image: A little loose
Your hand: A♣J♦

This hand is taken from actual game play in the Sunday Million on 8-11-08. The hand took place between puntnko and iamthetiger. You’ll be standing in for iamthetiger

The setup: You’re very deep in the Sunday Million. There’s a pay jump in one spot.

You get AJ on the button. UTG, who has been a little goofy, raises to 610k. It folds to you and you make a small re-raise to 970k. The blinds fold and UTG calls. You flop second pair:

5♥J♠K♦

UTG checks and you bet 1 million into just about 2.5. UTG calls. The turn brings the 3♥. UTG checks.

What’s your play?

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14 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

DHQ Staff

You seem either way ahead or way behind on this board, and I don’t think there’s a huge need to protect your hand.

I check behind here and commit to the hand on the river. It seems like the best way to get value when you’re ahead.

What actually happened: tiger bet 1.25 million and was checkraised all in. He called and was shown k3. The river brought another K and puntnko won the pot.

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Kev

the options are check or fold. This quiz is rubbish, I wouldn’t raise in this spot but there isn’t even the option. Who is actually going to fold?!

stupid

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kev

WHO VOTED FOLD?! WHY THE PISS WOULD YOU FOLD AFTER A CHECK

ARE YOU AN IDIOT?!

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kev

Its a definite fold… I mean what else can you do? ;D

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Marty

I folded cos I put him on K3 and my waters told me a K was coming on the river, so rather than wasting time I folded to just get on with the next hand.

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drhoho

It must be my mind which is limited to low stakes tours. But how the hell did this happen?
Why is hero making a gay-3-bet on a loose player? Hero started the hand with a stack of less than 20BB, if you 3-bet there is really only one betsizing imo.
Off course you need a pretty good conception of villains looseness to repop a UTG raise with AJ.

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teddy

easy fold because he may have paired a king

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Cristiano

C´mon you guys. lets not drop the quality of our dailyhandquizes… This was not even a quiz.

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_CityBorn_

Easy fold. In position with second pair facing a check, what else could you possibly do?

I loved this quiz. The entertainment value alone made it worthy. Keep the nonsensical quizzes coming staff!

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markg

It’s a good time to scan my email, or get a drink, so I just let my time run out and come back for the next hand. Wait, you mean I can check and get another card free? Really?

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Chad Gerson

You shouldn’t have bet the flop in the first place. You don’t have the stack to make huge c-bets. Just because your opponent is loose doesn’t mean he’s dumb. He has a K or an open ender, perhaps a J with worse kicker if you’re lucky.

Of course you shouldn’t have re-raised pre-flop and maybe shouldn’t even have called. You have to pick your spots to be aggressive and against this “goofy” guy you have to watch your step, he could have anything.

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catcher

Yeah, instant fold. In fact I’d fold before the flop after getting called. And to be safe, I’d fold the next hand in the dark.

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DHQ Staff

yeesh, plugged in the wrong poll.

you guys are a tough crowd.

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McCowish

3. FOLD!!!! He clearly has K3 and will river a boat. My psychic powers say so and they are infallible!!

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