Poker Hand of the Week: 8/28/15You 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.
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The Scenario
There are three players remaining in a tournament and you are the short stack with 3,770,000. The blinds are currently 120,000-240,000 with a 30,000 ante, giving you almost 16 big blinds to work with. The chip leader is sitting with 12,030,000.
The villain, who started the hand with 8,940,000, raises to 525,000 on the button. The chip leader folds in the small blind and you look down at Q
8
in the big blind. You decide to defend and the flop comes down A
J10 giving you a double gutshot straight draw.
You check and your opponent continues for 650,000. You have 3,215,000 remaining in your stack.
The Questions
Do you fold, call or raise? Is there a good reason for folding? If calling, what is your plan for the turn if you miss your draw? If raising, how much? Do you have enough fold equity to move all in?
What Actually Happened
The the €50,000 buy-in Super High Roller event at EPT Barcelona, Christoph Vogelsang was facing a bet of 650,000 holding Q8 on a flop of AJ10.
Vogelsang opted to move all in, and his opponent Sylvain Loosli quickly called with A8. The turn and river fell 3
8 and Vogelsang was eliminated in third place, earning €551,485.
Loosli went on to win the tournament and the €1,224,000 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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