Poker Hand of the Week: 9/18/15You 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 currently in second place with four players remaining in major live tournaments. You are sitting with 7,750,000 and the blinds are 60,000-120,000 with a 20,000 ante, giving you 64 big blinds to work with. You are currently in the big blind. The under the gun player has 4,250,000, the button has 9,325,000 and the small blind has 2,390,000.
The first player folds and the button, who is the chip leader, raises to 400,000. The short stack folds in the small blind and you look down at K
10 in the big blind. You call and the flop comes down 943
, giving you two overs and a flush draw.
You check and your opponent checks behind. The turn is the 5 and your opponent bets 700,000. You call and the river is the 2, completing your flush and putting a four-card straight on board. There is currently 2,340,000 in the pot.
The Questions
Do you check or bet? How do you extract the most value from your hand? Do you think your opponent will bet again as a bluff? If he bets again for value, would he call a check-raise? If betting, how much? Are you worried that betting may make your opponent fold most of his range? What kinds of hands do you expect to get called by?
What Actually Happened
At the 2015 WPT Legends of Poker main event at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, Brent Roberts opted to bet his king-high flush on a board of 9435.
His opponent, Freddy Deeb, took about a minute before calling with AQ
for a wheel. The hand gave Roberts the chip lead, but he would ultimately bust in third place, earning $251,035.
Deeb went on to finish runner-up for $383,090. The eventual winner was Mike Shariati, who picked up his first major title and the $675,942 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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