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1stTilt
Joined: 26.03.2011

OK so basically I'm just looking for advice on a hand I had late in a tournament. Here is the action.

Folded around to me in the Hijack. Blinds are 4000 and 8000. Remaining number of players in the tournament are 116 from 5000+. I'm second leading chip stack with just over 700 000. Table stack sizes consist mainly of 150 000+ and the chip leader is in the BB with around 750 000. Stack sizes left to act behind me have 180 000, 320 000, and 380 000.

I raise with JJ to 24 000 and it folds around to the BB.

He puts a . or period in chat. I take this as he doesn't know what I'm doing raising 3x. It also tells me he has a hand of some type. He waits to act calling. This tells me he may have wanted to reraise but thought I may be more strong so he wanted to see a flop. I don't put him on AA KK or QQ. I put his range on A10+ 77-1010 and K10+

BB calls
Flop comes 8 5 6 with no flush draw.
BB checks
I CB 24 000
BB reraises to 58 000
I go over the top to 116 000
He comes over the top for 232 000
I call
Turn is a 3
BB bets 360 000ish
I push all in
He calls.

He shows 33 for a set on the turn.

As I was up against the only person who could take me out and I was certain he had a low PP on the flop. Due to his hesitation preflop I put his reraise as a test on me and I wanted to trap him. At no point in the hand did I think I was beat.

Should I have just pushed all in on the flop or was my call warranted?

I'm leaning to the fact that once he reraises my reraise there is enough money in the pot that I no longer need to trap. I can simply just push and go for the showdown.

Any suggestions on lines of play for this hand?


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metza
Joined: 28.01.2012

This is a massive overplay of JJ on the flop. Especially given that it's deep in a tourney and almost 100bb stacks. Just call minraise on flop, even vs that, JJ is beat a decent amount of the time.

Stats on opponent are incredibly useful in such spots.


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andiofwbafc
Joined: 01.05.2012

He could also have already made his set on the flop if you think he's playing low pocket pairs - he certainly played the flop like he had.


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