Poker Hand Of The Week: 2/6/14You Decide What's The Best Play |
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Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they’ll come up with dozens of different opinions. That’s just the nature of the game.
Each week, Card Player will select a hand from the high-stakes, big buy-in poker world, break it down and show that there’s more than one way to get the job done.
The Scenario
There are 12 players remaining in a tournament of 1,229 and you are sitting comfortably in third place with 4,250,000. With the blinds at 25,000-50,000 with a 5,000 ante, you have 85 big blinds.
An aggressive player, who is currently in second place with 5,320,000, limps in from the cutoff and you raise to 130,000 with K
Q
. The big blind calls, as does the cutoff.
The flop comes down 10
64
and the big blind checks. The cutoff then bets 150,000 and you decide to raise to 450,000. The big blind folds and the cutoff calls.
The turn is the 7 and the cutoff checks to you. Continuing to represent a strong hand, you decide to bet 665,000. The cutoff calls and the K hits the river.
Your opponent checks and you have 4,100,000 remaining in your stack. The pot is currently 2,725,000.
The Questions
Do you bet or check behind? If betting, how much? Are you betting for value or as a bluff? What kind of hand were your representing preflop, on the flop and the turn? What kind of hand is your opponent representing? If checking behind, how often do you expect to have the best hand?
What Actually Happened
At the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open main event, facing a decision holding KQ on a board of 10647K, Farid Jattin opted to bet 1,100,000.
His opponent, Anthony Maio, immediately called and turned over 76 for two pair, raking in the massive pot.
Jattin went on to finish in sixth place, earning $174,352. Maio held on for third place, banking $307,565. The eventual winner was Anthony Merulla, who won his first WPT title and the $842,379 first-place prize.
What would you have done and why? Let us know in the comments section below and try not to be results oriented. The best answer will receive a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription.
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