Kings facing lead on turn, early stages of an online tournament

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Game type: $200 freezeout on Full Tilt
Stage of tourney: Early
Your image: Strong
Opponent’s image: No real read
Your hand: K♦K♣

The setup: You’re still in the early stages of the Sunday Mulligan on FTP when the following hand comes up. You get dealt KK in middle position. Two people fold and the next makes it 3x. You decide to mix it up and just flat. The SB calls and the BB folds. Three people see a flop of:

2♥6♣3♦

The SB checks and the raiser leads out for 300. You raise it to 982. The SB folds and the raiser calls. The turn is the T♣.

The raiser leads again, this time for 1350 into just about 2500. What’s your play?

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black fair

Raise all in.

If we were deeper here I’d just call to try and control the pot but calling here essentially commits us to the pot.

I lean towards raising here because basically I can’t see myself getting away from this hand. Our strong overpair is well disguised and we have no read on our opponent so folding here or to another river bet is too weak.

Since calling here has little pot control value the only function for it is if we believe we are trapping our opponent.

By why try and trap? The action so far and the pot odds on offer would incline me to believe he will call our shove with hands we beat.

It’s true that our opponent is showing a lot of strength and we are likely in a way ahead or way behind situation but I just can’t see how calling here and possibly facing a tricky river decision is a better move over just getting it all in against an aggressive player who could be overplaying a wide range of hands we beat.

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samo

I’m w/blackfair on the RAI. Stack sizes make calling impractical. Folding KK on that board with no real read on the v seems weak. V is leading for ~60% of pot after calling hero raise. Imo this is too large to be a blocking bet, so unlikely they will fold. Hope to see them turn-up QQ or JJ.

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_CityBorn_

Im basically with black fair and samo. Rasie all in. The only concern Id have is folding out a bluff, or something we have crushed like jj or a/10. I agree its not that likely we fold out made hands given the action, but flat calling the flop and then shoving here looks really strong. Im not 100% sure raising here doesnt just add the risk of folding them out without having any advantages. The money will get in on the river either way, and if we’re ahead he’s likely drawing to only 2 or 3 outs. Still though…..Im happy with the pot, and if he’s going to make a mistake, Id like him to make it now while I feel good about the board and he appears committed.

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bull

I would raise all in. There is a chance he could be playing pocket 10′s and hit his trips, but it’s a chance I would take.

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McCowish

I raise all in here.

With this board, I’m most likely, not folding the river.

It is possible he has an A. I would feel like a donk if an A comes on the river, and I didn’t charge him on the turn when my tourny life rode on the hand. Charge him.

Unless he hit a set or has AA, you’re ahead, so there’s not that much to be afraid of here. Given the low cards on board, I think it’s aslightly less likely that he has a set because most players would just fold those hands. Hopefully he has an overpair to the board ie. JJ,QQ.

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abbbott

He didn’t hit a set, he would likely have repopped the flop. I have him on 99, JJ or QQ
If he had ten’s he would have checked the turn to my raise on the flop. If he has aces, well, that’s the way it goes.

On a side note, I would need some very special circumstances to flat preflop with KK

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