Overpair and draw on bad board, NL MTT

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Game type: $75 freezeout, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Early
Your image: None
Opponent’s image: No read
Your hand: K♦K♥

The setup: You’re in the first couple of stages of this no limit freezeout on FTP when the following hand comes up. You’re dealt KK in middle position. Preflop a few players fold and the player to your right makes it 3x. You call and the table folds. You flop an over and a straight draw:

Qh Jh Th

Your opponent overbets pots – 270 into 225. You call and the turn is the 8♦. Your opponent now bets a bit over 2/3rd pot.

What’s your play?

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6 COMMENTS (Jump to comment form)

Overbets from a readless player can be hard to interpret.
Fortunately we have a great hand, possibly already the best, with massive outs to top set, straight, flush and straight flush.
Folding would be ridiculous.
Unless he flopped the nut flush, v can’t be that confident he has us beat – and if he did overbetting the flop was a strange move.

Raising (= shoving) here and now is fine but I think I prefer to float another street, make v sweat, and prepare to shove almost any river.

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Groundhog day

Voted raise but call is reasonable too. 30% fold? WTF?

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catcher

Both calling and raising are okay here I suppose, although I would personally lean towards call. If we shove, it makes easier for V to play his hand perfectly, as all the hands that have us beat will call while many hands we crush and that may well check-call the river will fold.

The tricky part of this situation would be a heart at river (unless it is precisely a 9), as AhQx is certainly a part of V’s range and would also be consistent with the way the hand has played out.

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Nelson

I call but if I miss the flush and the straight on the river and the villain bets I’m folding. I mean, at that point, all we would have is one pair…big deal.

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_CityBorn_

i like a call here. if anyones likely to improve its us, and we might be best right now as is. keep it under control and raise if you hit a draw.

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KataLyzT

could he possibly be playing AQ this way?
it smells like AA, QQ, JJ or TT to me for some reason.

what other hand could be played this way?
call is best imo, raising just means only hands that beat us will call.

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