Poker Hand of the Week: 6/19/14You 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 five players remaining in a $1,000 no-limit hold’em event. With 505,000 and blinds of 12,000-24,000 with a 4,000 ante, you have 21 big blinds remaining. The top three players have between about 1 million and 1.7 million, but there is one more short stack who also has about 500,000 left in his stack.
The action folds around to the small blind, a player with 1,090,000, and he raises to 52,000. You look down at 10
9
in the big blind and decide to defend.
The flop comes down J86 and your opponent checks. Wanting a free card, you check behind. The turn is the 8 and your opponent bets 52,000.
You have 449,000 left behind.
The Questions
Do you call, raise or fold? Your opponent raised preflop and then checked the flop. What does that say about his range? How does the board pairing turn change the hand? What are the benefits of raising? What are the benefits of calling? Do you have the proper implied odds to see the river? Do you regret checking back the flop?
Dutch Boyd
In the WSOP $1,000 no-limit hold’em event, William Givens bet 52,000 on a board reading J868 and Pok Kim moved all in holding 109.
Givens immediately called with 8
7
for trips and Kim was left drawing to just four outs. The river was the A and Kim was eliminated in fifth place, earning $61,983. Givens was eliminated shortly afterwards in fourth place, banking $84,680.
The eventual winner of the event was none other than Dutch Boyd, who picked up his third bracelet and the $288,744 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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