[BYATT34]

Here’s a hand I witnessed in the first level of today’s WCOOP event. Blinds 10/20, stacks are about 3000 each.

MP openraises to 60 with A266 rainbow; button reraises to 210 with AA34 doublesuited spades and hearts. Blinds fold and MP calls.

Flop is Q53 with two spades. MP checks, button bets 300, MP calls.

Turn is an offsuit 5. MP checks, button bets the pot, 1050, which leaves only 1360 in his stack. MP calls.

MP’s call on the turn is pretty horrible isn’t it? With just the nut-low draw and pretty much nothing for high except a gutshot straight (on a paired board).

But I’m also not sure whether button is correct to bet on the turn -- certainly not as much as he did.

(Incidentally, river was a miraculous 6 of spades, giving MP a full house with the nut low, while button had the nut flush with second-nut low and thus busted out of the tournament.)