Poker Hand of the Week: 5/15/14You 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
You are in the money in a $1,500 poker tournament and guaranteed a $7,500 payday. There are eight players remaining and with 275,000 in chips, you are in seventh place overall. The blinds are 6,000-12,000 with a 2,000 ante, giving you almost 23 big blinds to work with.
The most aggressive player at the table, a medium stack with 410,000, raises to 24,000 from under the gun. The action folds around to a bigger stack in the small blind and he calls. You look down at 10
9
in the big blind and also call.
The flop comes down 8
72
, giving you two overs and an open-ended straight draw. The small blind checks, you check and the preflop raiser bets 27,000.
The small blind folds and you call. The turn is the 4 and you check. Your opponent checks behind and the river is the 7, pairing the board. You have 222,000 remaining in your stack.
The Questions
Do you bet or check? If betting, how much? What does your opponent’s turn check say about his hand? How well does the river hit your range? If checking, would you consider a river check raise bluff or are you just giving up on the hand? How would your actions change against a less aggressive opponent?
What Actually Happened
At the Card Player Poker Tour bestbet Jacksonville main event and facing a board of 87247, Jess Snyder opted to fire in a bet of 32,000 holding 109.
His opponent, Sean Winter, took a moment before calling with A6 for ace high and took down the pot. Snyder went on to finish in seventh place, earning $10,200. Winter eventually won the tournament, banking $84,000.
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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