WSOP Main Event Hand

[The Camel]

It's the last 10 minutes of level 2. I have t25k. I have been avoiding playing big confrontations and picking up lots of small pots.

The raiser seems to be the best player on the table. He is playing classical TAG poker and has t30k and we have only seen one of his hands so far.. a turned nut flush.

Blinds are 100-200 and he makes it 600 to go in the cut off. The sb calls and I call in the bb with 22.

Flop is K52 rainbow. The sb checks, so do I. The raiser has c/bet every time he raised to this point. But he surprises me by checking behind.

Turn card is a Q completing a full rainbow board.

Sb checks again and I bet 900 into an 1800 pot. The raiser now makes it 3k straight. Sb passes.

What's my best move now?

[sheetsworld]

I like weak leading with my sets on the flop, but checking is ok there as well.

I like the 900 bet on the turn, and when he reraises you I really think he could be putting you on some type of bad king or queen and be reraising you with nothing, or in the alternative he can have AA or KQ and that would obviously be very good for us.

In either case I like thinking for a while then calling, intending to check the river inducing either a bluff if he has nothing or a value bet if he has KQ or AK or AA.

If he has a set of QQ OR KK or whatever then he just wins.


sheets

[scottjf8]

When he turned the Nut Flush, was he chasing it? Or was it "given" to him?

If he was chasing and you think he's on a straight draw (AJ/AT?) then I would make it 10k. If you think it's a 2 pr situation, I might call to keep the pot small going to the river, then push hard if no K or Q comes.

But I suck.

[SamG]

Bet more on the turn. I think only betting 900 is a big mistake.

[Zimmer4141]

As nitty as it sounds, I would try to keep this pot small. I think he still has a ton of 1 pair and 2 pair hands in his range here, but I don't think he will play a huge pot at this stage without either top two or a set. Given that he checked the flop, KQ seems to be unlikely, so I'd probably check/call the turn, check/call the river because he'll probably value bet AK and better right here.

Is this way too weak/tight?

[SamG]

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I like weak leading with my sets on the flop, but checking is ok there as well.

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I do, too, but I prefer it on more coordinated flops where it looks like you might be semibluffing.

[The Camel]

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When he turned the Nut Flush, was he chasing it? Or was it "given" to him?

If he was chasing and you think he's on a straight draw (AJ/AT?) then I would make it 10k. If you think it's a 2 pr situation, I might call to keep the pot small going to the river, then push hard if no K or Q comes.

But I suck.

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He raised on the button with AhQh.

Both blinds called. He flopped 2 hearts and bet 2/3 of the pot and was called in both spots. Another heart turned and he was called down by the big blind when he bet roughly half the pot on both the turn and river.

[Pasterbator]

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I like weak leading with my sets on the flop, but checking is ok there as well.

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even with your relative position in this hand?

vs someone who cont bets a lot, i like a check better as it allows you to trap the other player in the hand.

[Dave D]

I don't see anything wrong with repopping here to like 8k. He has no idea you have a set here and likely has AK/AQ. I think calling here is ok I guess, but you have to lead river, checking would only work if you have a REALLY good read (which has already failed since he checked thru on the flop) and is probably FPS.

If he has air he's folding to a turn reraise, but he's also not calling a value bet on the river.

[dmk]

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I don't see anything wrong with repopping here to like 8k. He has no idea you have a set here and likely has AK/AQ.

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I have a feeling making it 8k will point pretty easily to having a set

I'd call and value-bet like 5k on river. There's about a 0% shot he's going to raise the river w/ anything you're beating, and he's calling w/ everything but air.