Hi,
I've been reading the site for a long while but hardly ever post (New Year resoltuion is to post more!).
I'd really appreciate people's thoughts on the hand below. It was the opening hand of a $25+2 turbo SNG on Stars a few days ago.
I've been having trouble extracting value/avoiding trouble in the opening couple of levels of this type of SNG. Overall I've been running well recently but this is the type of situation where I definitely have a leak.
My concern on the hand was that his flat calling pre-flop, flop and turn, made me feel he was on a medium or small pair and may well have hit a set. Obviously though I have no reads whatsoever at this point. What's your play on the river? Do the bet values seem reasonable?
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed)
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Button (t1500)
SB (t1500)
BB (t1500)
UTG (t1500)
Hero (t1500)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
Villain (t1500)
CO (t1500)
Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t80</font>, <font color="#666666">
2 folds</font>, Villain calls t80, <font color="#666666">
4 folds</font>.
Flop: (t190) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t130</font>, Villain calls t130.
Turn: (t450) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t320</font>, Villain calls t320.
River: (t1090) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero ??