Turning a hand into a bluff, NL MTT

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Game type: 109 freezeout, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: Fairly early
Your image: TAG
Opponent’s image: Solid regular
Your hand: A♥2♥

The setup: You’ve built a pretty nice stack in the early stages of this freezeout tournament when the following hand comes up.

You raise with A2h. You get one caller and pair the flop:

5♦K♣2♥

You bet 675, about 2/3rds pot, and your opponent calls. The turn doesn’t change much with the 4♣, and you bump your bet to 1345.

Your opponent calls and the river brings the 9♥.

Should you bet again, or give up?

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12 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

catcher

Give it up.. I don’t see what a hand could call our two barrels and give up on river with this board, especially since turn and river were bricks.

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He has a K, he knows you probably don’t. He’s committed a lot of his stack and I can’t think of a bet he’s not going to call.
Let’s face it, our raise UTG was rather questionable to begin with.

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b1aze

Fold pre.

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_CityBorn_

considering there are no likely draws he couldve missed, and hes been calling the whole way, its time to give up. he’s got a king.

also, like b1aze said, in utg position, you fold this preflop.

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Calling Station

Raise UTG with A2? Oh, it was sooooted…

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T Reply:
September 29th, 2010 at 7:57 am

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Pirate21 Reply:
September 29th, 2010 at 10:54 am

Anybody else notice how many of these quizzes start with questionable P/F play and end up with H in a “tough spot”?

And does anybody else think there’s a coorelation there?

…just saying

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samo

I’m fine with the PF play, as well as the c-bets through the turn. With this board however, I believe Hero is well behind – likely Kx, less likely 55. Fold as representing 99 will not deter a V call, since that hand is such a minute part of Hero’s range.

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Pirate21

Agree with previous posts – there’s not a good story for this bluff and a ‘Solid Regular’ will sniff it out pretty quick.

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Nelson

With the villain acting this way the whole hand so far, knowing that our image is TAG, there is absolutely no way we are winning this pot. I wouldn’t put another penny in.

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general johnson jameson

i seriously laughed reading this. theres nothing wrong raising early with A2s. but doing it into 8 people this early in a tournament is significantly not needed. i love how it says weve built a really nice stack, and now its asking us if we should spew it off on a triple barrel bluff, into a guy who actually has a hand, when we have almost no story or board we can use to represent. its very clear he probably has KQ right here, and in his head he is probably thinking if H has AA or AK so be it. this was such a waste of chips. we have zero reason to be loosening up this much right now or getting out of line in any way possible. its amazing how much trouble can be precented just by not getting stupid before the flop during early levels.

fold. and hope no one notices we had our pants fall down while acting a fool.

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Drooo82

Check/Fold this one. There is no way villain could fold to our bet after he called our turn bet.

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