Poker Hand of the Week: 3/12/15You 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 17 players remaining in a $1,500 regional tournament. You are already in the money and guaranteed at least $10,392. With 901,000 in your stack, you are currently in sixth place overall. The blinds are 10,000-20,000 with a 3,000 ante, giving you 45 big blinds to work with.
A standard, tight aggressive player, who started the hand with 536,000, raises to 50,000 in middle position and another player with about 750,000 calls in the cutoff. You look down at K
6 and call from the big blind.
The flop comes down 10
10 5 and you check. The initial raiser bets 100,000 and the cutoff folds. There is currently 284,000 in the pot.
The Questions
Do you call, raise or fold? If raising, how much? Is there any benefit to moving all in? If calling, what is your plan if the turn is a brick? Would you call another bet to see the river? What is your plan if you make your flush on the turn? Are you concerned that the board is paired?
What Actually Happened
Facing a bet of 100,000 from Ben Foster at the WSOP Circuit main event stop at the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore, Christian Harder opted to raise all in holding K 6 on a flop of 10 10 5.
Foster called all in and tabled Q Q for an overpair. Harder needed any king or diamond to score the knockout, but the turn and river fell 10
6, giving Foster the double up.
Harder was eliminated shortly afterwards in 15th place, earning $12,613. Foster survived to a 13th place finish, also banking $12,613. The tournament’s eventual winner was Christoperh Csik, who was awarded the $2106,020 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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