Second pair on the turn, Poker Stars Sunday Million

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?
8.11.08 / 12am
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
8.11.08 / 1am
WHO VOTED FOLD?! WHY THE PISS WOULD YOU FOLD AFTER A CHECK
ARE YOU AN IDIOT?!
8.11.08 / 2am
Its a definite fold… I mean what else can you do? ;D
8.11.08 / 3am
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.
8.11.08 / 3am
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.
8.11.08 / 6am
easy fold because he may have paired a king
8.11.08 / 6am
CĀ“mon you guys. lets not drop the quality of our dailyhandquizes… This was not even a quiz.
8.11.08 / 6am
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!
8.11.08 / 9am
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?
8.11.08 / 9am
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.
8.11.08 / 10am
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.
8.11.08 / 1pm
yeesh, plugged in the wrong poll.
you guys are a tough crowd.
9.1.08 / 1pm
3. FOLD!!!! He clearly has K3 and will river a boat. My psychic powers say so and they are infallible!!

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8.10.08 / 11pm
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.