(Mis)played set by TV Pro...

[erc007]

I watched this hand the other morning on NBC's "Poker After Dark." It's a 20K buy-in, 6 player, winner-take-all FO. This hand is about 20 hands into the 1st level.

Blinds 100/200

UTG Daniel Negreanu
Button Mike Matusow
SB Phil Hellmuth
BB Phil Laak

Starting stacks are 20K, Button;SB;BB have about 20K, Negreanu covers.

Negreanu has been very active maybe 80/40, opening a lot of pots, mostly with trash. He has played pretty aggro postflop, so he hasn't shown down anything yet, except for TP a couple of times when he called raises wJTo and T9o.
Hellmuth has been pretty tight, Matusow and Laak have played about 1 hand each.

Thoughts on flop call?

Hero is UTG 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Preflop UTG raises to 600, 2 folds, Button calls, SB calls, BB calls.

Flop (pot 2400) J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]4 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
SB checks, BB bets 1200, UTG CALLS?, Button calls, SB Folds.

Turn (pot 6000) 8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
SB checks, UTG checks, Button bets 3500, SB folds, UTG calls.

River (pot 13000) K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
UTG checks, Button thinks 5 secs and bets 5K, UTG...???

[PhatPots]

Its not really that badly played. The stacks are very deep and he flopped a set and hoped to put in a big raise on the turn when a non-club hit or if the button raised or sb check raised, then he could put in a raise.

[Eagles]

Sometimes when you have a strong hand you can call instead of raise.

[JMSlick]

Especially when Matusow is playing....

[ChipRick]

nah