Tournament Hand. Big Stacks, blind vs blind.

gomez23

Situation:

Live £20 rebuy. 9 Paid. £1500 for 1st, payout structure is pretty standard for MTT, 62 Runners, 14 left, Blinds 800-1600 - 25 minute clock. Average Stack is 18.5k.

Hand:

Firstly, a little background on the villian. I have been playing on the villians table for the last 2 rounds and have seem him limp with a variety of hands and raising pretty sparingly preflop. He tends to bet on the flop taking a lot of pots. He has a big stack but seems to be a pretty bad player.

I havent raised a lot of pots but have won almost all uncontested, but reraised the villian all in with 45s from the SB when he raised the button, he thought hard and folded. I showed. Immediately after this hand our table broke and we were moved to a new table. At the new table, i bust someone and am second in chips overall, villian is chip leader.

Preflop:

The action is folded to me in the SB. I have 34.5k, raise 4.4k to 6k with 9c 9d. Villian has 35.5k, he calls. Thoughts here?

Pot: 12k

Flop:

Flop comes Kd 7d 8c .

What is your line for the rest of the hand and why?

gomez23

open fold i guess?!

gosplan

I have been known to suck but I'd bet the pot which is about 10K,

still leaves you with average stack if you need to get away.

Problem is if what to do on a blank turn if he calls!!!!!

cardshark202

I would check flop or bet flop, it depends on villain greatly. Here I would maybe check flop and bet turn and river for value if villain is a bit of a calling station.

Hitman Actual

I wouldn't have shown that 45 bluff earlier on, for a start. You say he's a bad player, so he should be fairly readable, but by showing him that bluff he might start playing tricky against you (and only you!). Not really what you want.

As it is, the hand is quite tricky now. Some info on how he plays his draws is very important, so it's hard to analyse the hand without that. I'd imagine that leading out for 3/4 pot bet would be okay, and re-evaluate from there. The problem is that you're bloating the pot oop.

Although, seeing as he bets a lot of flops, you could just check-call, and bet any turn. But the problem again is that you're creating a big pot and getting yourself pot-commited with your stack size as is. And there are a lot of turn cards which will make you nines look crappy. So probably leading out is best.

ArmaniJeanss

You probably know already, but you made a mistake in the previous hand when you showed the villian your bluff. Generally there is seldom ever a need to show a bluff like this, however on some occasions you can show a big hand to reassure that you werent getting out of line.
Its the nature of the game that you are rarely going to have the nuts and are going to be playing pots with next to nothing in your hand - a reputation as a wild bluffer won't do you much good then.

This hand is nasty, bet flop anyway.