I'd make this play 100 times, results be damned
No limit tournament, everyone started with 6,000 in chips, and we were still in the first round with blinds 100/200.
I raised to 600 with Ace spades, queen of hearts.
The small blind called, the big blind folded.
The flop came Q, J, 8, all spades.
The small blind bet $500, making the pot $1900.
I had $5,300 in chips.
I decided my best play was to go all-in. With top pair, top kicker, I could beat a lot of hands he might be in this spot, and with the nut-flush re-draw, I had outs if he had flopped the flush.
He called -- almost instantly -- and turned up K,9, suited in spades.
"Spade, spade," I called. The turn was a spade! But, it was the 10, making an ace-high flush for me and a straight flush for my opponent, knocking me out of the tournament.
But, even though I got busted out on this hand, I don't think I could have played it any different. I think I made the right play. If my opponent is bluffing on the flop, I shut him down and win a decent pot. If he has a hand better than top pair, top kicker, I have outs to beat him.
If I smooth-call the flop, I don't know where I'm at in the hand, and might give him outs to draw to beat me (two pair or a straight). And, as it turned out, when the spade hit on the turn, my chips would have gone in the pot with the ace high flush anyway.
Right play, wrong result, but sometimes, that's poker.
1 Comments:
With the blinds you mention this sounds early in the tourney? Where do you play again? I'll take your $$ any day.
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