Poker Hand Of The Week: 1/2/14You 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 nine players remaining in a major poker tournament, but only eight will make the official final table. With 610,000 and blinds of 20,000-40,000 with a 5,000 ante, you are the shortest stack remaining.
There are two other relatively short stacks. One player with 1,045,000 and another with 1,235,000. Everyone else is deep.
The player in third place, who has 3,560,000, min-raises from early position to 80,000. It folds around to you in the big blind and you make the call with K
6.
The flop comes down A
J7, giving you the second nut flush draw. You check and your opponent continues with a bet of 75,000. You call and the turn is the K
.
You check and your opponent moves all in. You have 450,000, or just over 11 big blinds remaining. The pot size is 375,000.
The Questions
Do you call or fold? If calling, what kind of a price are you getting? How many outs do you think you have? If folding, why? What does your opponent’s flop and turn bet say about his hand?
What Actually Happened
Facing a decision for his tournament life holding K6 on a board reading AJ7K at the EPT Prague main event, Sigurd Eskeland opted to call.
His opponent, Georgios Sotiropoulos, tabled pocket sevens for bottom set. The river was the 3 and Eskeland was eliminated in ninth place, earning €66,050.
Sotiropolous went on to finish in second place and after a heads-up deal, the Greek player earned €700,000.
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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