KK in the blinds facing a raise, late in a MTT

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Game type: $50 freezeout, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: 3 tables remain
Your image: Tight
Opponent’s image: Very aggressive
Your hand: Kd Kc

The setup: You’re down to the final three tables in this freezeout tournament that started with several hundred players. You’ve been playing pretty snug.

This hand you get KK in the BB. A very aggressive opponent opens the button. You have folded to their raises a few times and three bet once, getting a snap fold when you three bet.

What’s your play?

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DHQ Staff

If you were just a little shorter, I’d ship it in, but as it stands I think you’ll get folds out of the button too often. I say call and let him catch some piece of the flop and then get the money in.

What actually happened: You raised and the button folded.

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skobotinc1

If this guy steals a lot of blinds, and cbets a lot, i’m flatting pre, and hoping he commits himself on the flop after I check to him, so I can stack him off. If he doesn’t cbet much, I’m shoving into him on the flop.

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Richard P

With these stack sizes call and CRAI any flop without an ace. If opp checks behind then lead 30k on turn and call all in.

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mattman

I think that I’d like to raise right here. The pot allows me to increase my stack by over 25%. Against a very aggressive player, I can’t only be afraid of an ace, as any board could potentially hit my opponent. I would love to see this guy come with me if I raise, but I’m OK with taking down this pot right now.

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samo2

Voted call. Take the chance that an A does not hit the flop. Probably be able to extract another 15-20K c-bet, then CRAI.

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Rhycar

Comments look pretty good. I like the call here, just because of the history against a very aggressive player. Every now and then, you’ll get killed on the flop, but the extra money you make with a check-raise more than balances out. Call, check the flop, then shove when he c-bets.

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utdstevens7

am with matt ill do the same thing and let him think on it

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Bozo

Why are you guys scared of the ace on the flop? if he’s very agro he probably doesn’t have it, more likely to be blind stealing with junk like j5o

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muggsy

i’m calling and prey to god there’s no A on the flop

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Runefs

Id call and if no A on flop crai but if an A comes on the flop Im leading right into him. Chances are that he’s stealing and KK is still ahead with an A out there but I wanna find out. I’d put in what ever he’s seen me put in with top pair earlier in the turnament

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Ryan

Seems like a pretty straightforward call here. Rhycar and Runefs reflect my thinking exactly.

You already have him heads up, and your range looks pretty wide, calling from the BB with 3:1 odds. Most of the time you will take it down with a C/R, sometimes he will flop lucky and you’ll bust, and some of the time he’ll flop just good enough to double you up (maybe he hits top pair medium kicker on a Q-high flop and can’t get away by the time you C/R him).

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Bingo was his name-o

Call. Let’s get this pot juicy. If A hits the flop, I should be able to get him to tell me if he has one in his hand pretty quickly simply by leading into the pot.

Note: I typed this before reading Runefs. Ditto.

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