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I am like you, I will never go down in a deep stack tournament with TPTK.


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This is a mistake. Now, were you to say I wont always go down with TPTK, I would agree. Never? Come on.


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Your type of bet on the flop is definitely a one shot and if you get called or raised you fold.

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AHHHHH.... Stop the madness!!!!

Stipe, take a step back and think about this. You just recomended, making a standard c-bet with TPTK, and folding to any further action, including a call. For one, you just turned AK when you hit TP into 23o. Two, it will take good aggressive players about 3 orbits to pick this up and exploit it mercilessly.

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Controlling the pot size so you can bet the turn and not become pot committed is the key. You need to bet T500 on the flop. I think you have to rep the flush on the turn by betting T1000. If you get called then shutdown.


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I rarely plan my lines, so that I can fold on a later street. Your line just gave flush draws the right immediate odds to call, b/c you dont want to build a pot.


Look, I am all about discipline and not overplaying our hands, etc, etc. But, come on guys. We have a pair or Aces with a King kicker. That is a very good hand. Playing it as if it is bottom pair, is going to lose us a lot more chips than playing it like it is the stone cold nuts.

Playing this hand as weak as the OP suggests, will lose your entire stack, it will just take a few hands to do it.

Stipe, sorry for taking it out on you. No direspect, I think you are a very good player.

Also, I am also not sure about a call or fold in Ansky's post. I just wanted to stop the weak tight train before it drove us all straight to hell