Poker Hand of the Week: 12/11/15You 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.
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The Scenario
There are ten players left at the final table of a big live tournament and you are in second place overall. You have 3,020,000 in your stack with blinds of 25,000-50,000 with a 5,000 ante, giving you 60 big blinds to work with.
The action folds around to you in middle position and you look down at K
Q
. You raise to 100,000 and get called by another player in middle position, the hijack and the big blind.
The flop comes down Q8
7 and the big blind checks. You continue with a bet of 200,000 and the other middle position player calls. The hijack then goes all in for 1,065,000, getting the big blind to fold.
There is currently 1,940,000 in the pot, and the other player in the hand has 2,850,000 behind.
The Questions
Do you call, raise or fold? If raising, how much? Given the flop texture, is the all-in player more likely to have a drawing hand or a made hand? What about the player behind you? If you do intend to continue in the hand, is it better to just call, or to raise and isolate against the all-in player?
What Actually Happened
Facing an all in from Nipun Java at the Rock n’ Roll Poker Open on a flop of Q87, David Prociak opted to call with KQ, which prompted Peter Walsworth to fold from middle position.
Java showed 77
for bottom set and the hand held as the board completed 79. Java doubled up and eventually finished in seventh place, earning $88,243.
Prociak rebounded from the hand to finish in second place, taking home $330,912. The winner of the event was Jake Bazeley, who picked up the title and the $568,687 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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