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Could I have got away?

  • 03-08-2006 7:07pm
    #1
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    I've just been moved to the table with about 33k. Big stack to my left has about 40k. Nobody else is close (mid 20's). It's about my third hand at the table so I have no info on these people. I get KJo and raise to 2k (300/600/100) in mid position. My friend the big stack calls and the 2 of us see the flop of KJT rainbow.

    I check intending to trap with my top 2, and he bets out 10k (pot has 5800). I consider my options and push. He insta-calls with the made straight, Q9. The turn and river are blanks and I'm leaving.

    It's been going through my mind - could I have got away? The pre-flop raise seems about right for my hand (and I have no issue with his call). If I had bet out first on the flop, I suspect he would have smooth called (he was genuinely surprised when I showed top 2, putting me only on a K), and I would have lost all my money anyway.

    Was there a better way to play this, or was it "just one of those hands"?


Comments

  • #2
    cooker3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭cooker3


    Fine with you pf raise, I think he made a rather loose call but on the flop I am definately betting this, board is too dangerous to be slow-playing, you have a good hand but not that good and you don't want to be giving a free card away in this spot. As it turns out I think I go broke here as well, he played it well after the flop. I don't think calling is an option as too many scary cards can come so either all-on or fold and I am not folding this hand.


  • #3
    valor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭valor


    No.

    Bet the flop unless you are sure he will bet with anything he called with preeflop, otherwise a check sucks hard


  • #4
    Belle Glamorous Toenail
    Posts: 0 ✭ Belle Glamorous Toenail


    Watch High-Stakes Poker episode 9, a very similar situation is played out...


  • #5
    Hitman Actual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭Hitman Actual


    I think the biggest mistake in this hand is getting involved in the first place. IMO you should rarely get involved with a marginal hand when you've just been moved to a new table, and raising with KJo in MP is about as marginal as it gets. Wait for a few hands until you have some info on the other players.


  • #6
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    lenny_leonard wrote:
    I think the biggest mistake in this hand is getting involved in the first place. IMO you should rarely get involved with a marginal hand when you've just been moved to a new table, and raising with KJo in MP is about as marginal as it gets. Wait for a few hands until you have some info on the other players.
    That works in reverse too, lenny - they have no idea what I could be playing with, but point taken. I rarely get involved in hands that early, but my thinking was it was folded to me, a decent raise might just take the blinds and antes here, and if I'm called, well, the flop will either love me or hate me (as it happened, it did both :D)


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