Queens with a King on the turn, NL MTT

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Game type: $30 Rebuy, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Rebuy period closed
Your image: Fairly aggressive
Opponent’s image: A little loose
Your hand: Q♣Q♥

The setup: You’ve got a solid stack in this rebuy tournament; the rebuy period is closed. This hand you get QQ in MP. A player to your left makes it 600 and you flat. The rest of the table folds. You flop an overpair:

6♥4♦8♥

Your opponent checks and you bet 1500. They call and the K♠ hits the turn. They check again.

What’s your play?

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6 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

samo

Voted check. There is a good chance with this board to be bluffed-off QQ via a c-r, which will be difficult to call unless you had a good read on the v. Certainly don’t want to let a free card peel on the riv, but a check-call on the turn commits the v. Prefer to keep the pot-size under control. Loose players can make moves too.

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abetter spot

I don’t see how we are bluffed off here by a check raise, samo. His stack is too short so that we are pretty much committed to call any raise over our lead bet. I vote bet half pot of 2200, hoping to get another call from either a heart draw or a smaller pocket pair below ours as well. If he pushes over our bet, we have to call 2,360 more into an 11,260 pot, so we are committed. If he had AK and made a full pot call to us on the flop, so be it. With his stack size that was not the brightest call if he did.

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samo Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 10:25 am

I agree that we would be getting the correct odds to call the villain’s shove, but don’t want to be put in that spot if I can help it. We are probably behind most of the time in that situation. Checking allows hero to evaluate the riv, calling any non-Ace, non-heart.

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EnjoyMyShove

On the flop we were betting for value with a well-disguised hand and now we are betting for information. The only hand i can see in this with a K is KJ of hearts or poorly played AK. So i’m not a big fan of folding to a K by how this was played.

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_CityBorn_

im checking. i just figure its the cheapest way to get to showdown. if we bet we’re committed for his remaining 4560, and i dont think he puts the money in with anything we’re beating. if we check, maybe he bets less than all in on the river with a king.

if he’s drawing, he gets a free card, but the check here might induce a bluff on the river from a missed draw just the same, so the pro’s outweigh the cons in my opinion.

either way im willing to get the money in, but id rather slow down here and call a bet on the river.

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ixtl

With his stack i think he would have check-raised all-in any flush draw on that flop and probably T9 too. He most likely have big overcards or a set, and since we have 2 q’s the chances he actually have a king are pretty big. I would check behind on the turn and pray he checks the river.

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