Poker Hand of the Week: 10/2/15You 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 five handed at a major final table with 4,545,000 in chips. The blinds are 60,000-120,000 with a 20,000 ante, giving you almost 38 big blinds to work with. The two chip leaders are sitting with a little more than 9,500,000 and the short stack has 1,950,000.
Sitting under the gun, you look down at pocket aces and raise to 300,000. A player who started the hand with 4,970,000 calls on the button and the blinds fold. The flop comes down 6
2
2
and you bet 500,000.
Your opponent calls and the turn is the 5. You check, and your opponent checks behind. The river is the 9 and you decide to bet 700,000. Your opponent tanks for nearly a minute before deciding to raise to 2,700,000.
The Questions
Do you raise, call or fold? What range of hands does your opponent have given his line? What bluffs are in his range? Do you regret checking the turn? Do you regret betting the river? How do the stack sizes influence your decision?
What Actually Happened
At the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open main event, Maurice Hawkins bet 700,000 with his pocket aces on a board of 62259. His opponent, David Paredes, raised to 2,700,000.
Hawkins then folded his pocket aces face up and Paredes took the pot, mucking his cards. Hawkins was eliminated in fourth place, earning $220,258.
Paredes went on to win the tournament and the $723,227 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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