Jacks facing preflop flat, deep in rebuy MTT

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Game type: $50 rebuy PokerStars
Stage of tourney: Near money
Your image: Fairly aggressive
Opponent’s image: No read
Your hand: J♣J♥

The setup: You’ve built a very strong stack as this $50 rebuy tournament approaches the money. This hand you get JJ and 2.5x it preflop. A fairly short player flats you from the CO. The rest of the table folds and the flop comes:

7♥6♠3♥

It’s your action. What’s your play?

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black fair

Lead.

I think its so obvious we lead here that this quiz should be about bet sizing.

I want to set up two possible dynamics here with my bet size, one is to put him in a position to feel pot committed on the turn if he flat calls the flop, the other is to and entice a flop shove from hands we beat.

Should he flat again that leaves him with 11K remaining and a pot of 21K. Setting us up for a shove on the turn requiring him to call 11K to win 32K.

I think the 6k is also about right to maximise the temptation for him to shove here as a bluff / semi-bluff thinking he has some fold equity with his remaining stack on this sort of board.

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black fair Reply:
November 27th, 2009 at 12:19 am

Not very clear but i lead for about 6k

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kaimano

With such a drawy board, I shove. I don’t think he can get away from 88, 99 or TT. If he has QQ, KK, AA, so be it.

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samo

Voted in the minority – check-call. I think that one street or another, $17K of the hero’s stack is probably going-in. If v is behind with a smaller pair, a lead may get a fold. You are also vulnerable to a RAI. However, a check may induce a bet, believing hero is holding a hand like AK or AQ. If v bets say $6.5K, hero can call and possibly get away from the hand on the turn if an over-card hits. Check-calling gives you more economic options as opposed to a lead imo.

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yang+gold+cada=greatness

lead too many draws out there. in any case opponent has A4 or A5 or any kind suited hearts you want to just bet that out with a strong bet.

I would vote to check raise if it was loose aggressive player but we have no real read on our opponent in this case.

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