Live Tournament hand...

[Fiksdal]

Clearly flat calling flop is not an option here

[cferejohn]

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If I get 3 callers though, caller 3 (and possibly caller 2) are probably not making mistakes given the odds they are going to be getting (i.e. they probably have at least *one* overcard).

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That's not how this works.

There are plenty of times when allowing someone to play correctly is still the right thing to do.

To give a simple example, you are 100xbb deep and raise AA utg 3.5xbb. It is correct for anyone to call with TT. Does this mean you should've raised more preflop? No.

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Well, OK, but this isn't exactly that situation. How about this: If I raise and get 3 callers, it is fairly likely one of them is going to outflop me, and once I've raised, given the stack sizes, it's going to be pretty hard for me to fold any but the worst flops (AKx maybe). I'm pretty much going to have to push any T, J, or Q high flop (maybe I can check and see if 2 players move at the pot), and if I get called I'm pretty much always beat.

I'm not saying raising preflop is wrong, I just don't think it's that clear cut.

Anyway, as for the way the hand played out, the MP had Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] for the flopped flush. Just wanted to make sure my flop play seemed standard, since I didn't feel like there was any other reasonable play to make at that point.