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First off.....hero did not panic. Not even close. Hero was completely in control of the table, the chips, and his reads. I just wanted to see how many people were adamant about going to the felt with this hand. I recently wrote a post about getting attached and then this hand comes up. Very ironic. In my post I said you need to go with your reads and make your decisions. Sometimes your wrong, but to be successful (atleast live) you need to depend on them.
For the hand: Flop comes K Q 4. SB bets 1500. I found it very unusual of him to bet into me. With a hand as strong as KK,QQ I have already said I figured he would reraise preflop. 44's is interesting and worthy of a preflop call but I think that hand is SO sneaky that he would let me keep the lead (with two big cards in the broadway zone). So I deduced that he had a K with either a T,J,Q,A. Since there was a Q out there, I decided to flat call and see if he has the stones to follow through with a turn bet. This part of the hand is debateable as I know some will say "raise and see where your at". But with me being confident with my read and staring right at him instead of his name on a computer screen, I don't feel as though I'll get any more information out of him by betting/raising then I would by observing and calculating his moves in position. Plus if the turn comes blank (A-9) then yes I go to the felt automatically with this hand.
The turn comes a T. Not a good card for me. Now literally any of the combiations that I put him on are now hitting pretty hard. From a set (TT) to two pair (KQ,KT,QTs) to a straight (AJ). He glances at me as the turn peels off and then goes to his stack and bets 5000 (into a 7000 pot). I think for a moment and dump.
I lose 3100 on the hand. I proceed to pick up pots from the rest of the table and get my stack back up to where it was before the aces confrontation and then some within one orbit.
He told me after the final table (I finished 6 ironically when my AA gets cracked by J8o) that he had KQ and didn't expect me to have such a strong hand. He was value betting his hand.
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