Poker Hand of the Week: 6/12/15You 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
You are heads-up in a major pot-limit hold’em tournament for a WSOP bracelet and have the chip lead with 2,180,000 to your opponent’s 1,630,000. The blinds are currently 30,000-60,000 with no ante.
You look down at A
A
and min-raise on the button to 120,000. Your opponent, an accomplished, but aggressive young poker pro, calls. The flop comes down A
52 and your opponent leads out for 130,000.
You call and the turn is the 7, putting two flush draws and straights draws on board. Your opponent then bets 290,000, leaving himself with 1,090,000 behind. The pot size is currently 790,000.
The Questions
Do you call or raise? If raising, how much? If calling, what is your plan for the river? If you think your opponent might be bluffing, what is the best play? If you think your opponent has a draw, what’s the best play? If you think your opponent has a decent to good hand, what’s the best play? If you just call and the river completes a flush or straight, what do you do if checked to?
What Actually Happened
Facing a bet of 290,000 on a board reading A527, Shaun Deeb opted to slowplay his set of aces, just calling the bet from Paul Volpe.
The river was the 5, giving Deeb the best possible full house and Volpe announced a pot sized bet of 1,080,000 leaving himself with just 10,000. Deeb immediately announced that he was all in and Volpe quickly folded his 96.
The tournament lasted just two more hands and Deeb won the $10,000 pot-limit hold’em championship, his first WSOP bracelet and the $318,857 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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