Poker Hand of the Week: 7/3/14You 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 currently on the money bubble in the biggest tournament on earth. Of the nine players remaining, only eight will make the money. With 14.8 million in chips, you are in fourth place overall. The blinds are 200,000-400,000 with a 50,000 ante, giving you 37 big blinds.
There is one short stack sitting with just 10 big blinds. Three other players are also in the danger zone with 15-20 big blinds.
You look down at J
10
in early position and raise to 1.1 million. The big blind, who also happens to be the chip leader with 26 million, makes the call.
The flop comes down 106
2 and your opponent checks. You bet 1.75 million and he calls. The turn is the 3 and he checks again.
You check behind and the river is the 10
, giving you trips. Your opponent now bets 2.5 million. You have 11.9 million remaining in your stack.
The Questions
Do you call or raise? What would your reasoning be for just calling? If raising, how much? Would your opponent ever call a raise with worse? How does your decision change if you weren’t on the money bubble? How would your decision change if you had your opponent covered?
What Actually Happened
At the 2014 WSOP Big One For One Drop $1 million buy-in event and facing a bet of 2.5 million on a board of 1062310, Daniel Negreanu opted to call with his J10.
His opponent, Daniel Colman, revealed A6 and then mucked. Colman would get the last laugh, however, beating Negreanu heads-up to win the $15,306,668 first-place prize. Negreanu had to settle for $8,288,001 for finishing runner-up.
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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