Poker Hand of the Week: 1/30/15You 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 at an eight-handed final table of a big buy-in European tournament. With 1.6 million, you are the big chip leader with 133 big blinds at 6,000-12,000 with a 2,000 ante. Nobody else has more than 700,000 in chips.
A player with 375,000 raises to 25,000. You look down at 8
5 and make the call. The big blind, who has 543,000, calls as well. The flop comes down A
J4 and the big blind checks.
The original raiser bets 50,000 and you call, as does the big blind. The turn is the J
and everyone checks. The river is the Q and the big blind bets 90,000. The original raiser then moves in for his last 300,000. The big blind has another 378,000 behind his river bet.
The Questions
Do you call, fold or raise? If raising, how much? Are you raising for value or to push the big blind out of the showdown? What factors would make you consider folding? If calling, what is your plan should the big blind raise? Do you regret not raising the flop or betting the turn?
What Actually Happened
Facing a bet and an all-in raise in front of him holding 85 on a board reading AJ4JQ, Majid Ejlal Noubarian opted to move all in over the top.
Marco Della Tommasina, who had bet 90,000 on the river, folded what he claimed was a jack. The all-in player, Vasili Kesnin, then revealed Q
Q for a rivered full house to take the pot and more than double up.
Kesnin went on to bust in seventh place, earning €12,312. Tommasina went out in fourth place, picking up €24,800. Noubarian finished runner-up, banking €52,300.
The eventual winner of the WPT National Cyprus main event was Atanas Kavrakov, who earned his first major title and the €75,000 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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