Re: With deep stacks, I always fold top pair!
Ansky -
I will do my very best trying to analyze this hand and come up with a range that would warrant a fold from you. In this situation, I think many times the villian who cold called 2 raises (I presume) is going to show you a set of queens made on the turn, or a suited AQ of clubs for the flush, or an offsuit AQ for 2 pair, and a few SCs. TPTK is not a hand you want to play for your entire stack, in a deep stack tournament, regardless of whether or not they are donks...this just opens the probability that you're beat by a vast array of hands. A true donk will call here with 33+ and could very well have made a smaller set. I think folding when you did is a good option. I just don't want to find out if the LAG villian checked his flush, set, 2 pair on the turn. There are a myriad of hands that smoke you right now. A flush seems very present, he checks it on the turn, hoping you bet your ace, you check behind, the queen comes off, now he's figuring you may have made 2 pair, he's leading out, looking for a raise. This is how I interpret it, and I think Ansky is dead on with the, "there's really no hand he can bluff with on the river" analysis.
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