Incorrect Preflop or post flop?

[David Malli]

First of all this is my first post. Want to say love the blogs from Brad and Neeme. Glad there is a forum like this because as a totally noob….I’ll be turning here again. I’m positive about that.

Local $40 buy in tourney.

400/800 blinds
My stack: Around 25000 26000

I’m in the BB. Look down at AcTc. Folds to BUT. BUT is a good player and the only person at the table that covers me.

BUT raises to 2200. I call.
Flop is 9cKh7d. I check and BUT bets 3000. I call knowing he’s been cbetting even on missed flops and he’s one of the only ones at the table doing so. I put him on a straight draw, maybe a K if he has anything.

Turn is Kc. I check and he gets 5000. I know have one over and nut flush draw so I call.

River is potentially worst card in deck Ad.

I check and he shoves. He covers me. I shrug, tell him I think I have to call and your King may be good. Call and he shows KdTh.

Should I have shoved or reraised from preflop or should I have gotten away from it post Flop?

I’m pretty new at tourneys and I was playing so well. I honestly felt I had a good read on the table and this hand has been eating me up.

[Laurens]

In my humble opinion, I think your preflop play is good enough. with around 30 bigs it’s hard to play back at him without commiting yourself, so in my opinion, a preflop all-in is out of the question ( you risk your whole stack if you are against a premium hand like JJ-AA or AK, AQ and AJ. Even if you are flipping with 66-99 I still don’t like the odds in general. This also depends on how deep you are in the tourney, if you want to win or ladder, ETC….)

on the flop, you can go either way, it looks 50/50. Your Ace high might be good ( he could have hands like QJ, j10, 108… all reasonable opening hands from the button). personally I would also have continued on the flop, But I think the correct ( tournament ) play is to let it go and fight another day, against a worst opponent.

on the turn you pick up the nut flush draw and you have to call I think, given his bet is less then 1/2 pot. when he fires here again i would put him on a king, maybe a QQ-1010 hand that sees that the odds of you having a king are low. on the river you hit your Ace and only loose to a King, and I think you need to call it off there since you have invested a lot of your chips in the pot already. if you would have folded anywhere after the flop ( were we actually had an easy way out), It would have been a hero fold.

[David Malli]

Thanks Laurens. This is exactly how I felt about it during the situation. Maybe I’m just being results oriented, but I can’t help but feel like I played incorrectly somewhere.

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