That hand confused me — How would you play that?

[Leandro Veiga]

I was playing a freeroll tournament and I was faced with this situation:

• Blinds: 100/200
• My hand: K ♥ Q ♠
• Flop: K ♣ 9 ♠ 5 ♠

I wasn't in the cutoff and made a c-bet of 600 chips, but I received an all-in from a short stack. Is it worth paying? He was very tight the entire tournament. What would you do in that situation?

 

[Andyreas]

Hi,

What was the stack he was pushing compared to the pot at the flop?

You have TPGK + a strong draw, so you can invest some chips but not sure how large his raise was.

 

[Leandro Veiga]

Oi,

Qual era o stack que ele estava empurrando em comparação ao pote no flop?

Você tem TPGK + um draw forte, então pode investir algumas fichas, mas não tem certeza de quão grande foi o aumento dele.

My stack was 5,500 chips and the short one was 1,800 chips

 

[A kiravio]

My stack was 5,500 chips and the short one was 1,800 chips

The flop is very promising. In the worst case it has three of a kind or aces, K aces kicker, two pairs, speculating a flush.... I would be willing to call and risk less than half the stack.

 

[monkeytilter]

This is a no brainer call given the pot and price??

 

[A kiravio]

This is a no brainer call given the pot and price??

It's just what I would do, not advice on what you should do. Now it also depends on the situation at the table, if there are others involved, the position... But if I'm alone with him I would try to improve the hand with so many outs.

 

[MK_]

I think you'd get more helpful answers if you would post the hand history so people could see the play of the hand👍

 

[mssmotilda]

I think you should always play call here. AK, 99 and 55 he would play preflop all-in almost always, so there will almost always be a draw, a pair+ draw and a top pair with a lower kicker.

 

[sibkaz]

Call only)

 

[Mortis]

I was playing a freeroll tournament and I was faced with this situation:

• Blinds: 100/200
• My hand: K ♥ Q ♠
• Flop: K ♣ 9 ♠ 5 ♠

I wasn't in the cutoff and made a c-bet of 600 chips, but I received an all-in from a short stack. Is it worth paying? He was very tight the entire tournament. What would you do in that situation?

My stack was 5,500 chips and the short one was 1,800 chips

Top pair with good kicker and a backdoor flush draw to a short stack that went all-in 3x your bet... that's an easy call. Worst case would probably be up against 99 or 55. Possibly AK, but doubtful. Flush draw is likely here, and it was probably all-in or fold option for the short stack and they took the all-in option for a chance to hit the flush.

If you lose the hand, you're down to 3,700 chips, still about 18.5 BBs. Not in terrible shape.