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Been at the table at 45 mins, have been playing pretty tight.

At 50/100 young guy opens the co playing 27k of a 30k starting stack (was a little late so hadn't seen how he had lost them) to 250 at 50/100. Button flats, I raise to 1050 from the sb with KK (everyone else is playing ~30k), Priyan De Mel now makes it 2750 from the bb, original raiser makes it 6600, button folds now me.....

As far as I am aware I am an unknown to the guy in the co. I know Priyan pretty well on a personal level but have never played with him, I would expect he perceives me to be quite aggro. At this stage though (was the WPT Ireland with NO re-entries), is this a spot that is even difficult to play?

I do a fold.

Seems very unlikely that everyones decided to just spaz out against each other in the first level of a WPT, just fold and tell people you had AJ

really fold kk pre? you don;t know he has aces, maybe its qq

Yeah I do a fold here. One of those clean cut spots where you can fold it and be happy without seeing the cards

NEVER TELL A SOUL THOU!

And definately dont post the hand on a forum  :P

I folded KK pre once, and it was wrong. Still scarred tbh, especially because i never folded toppest pair before this

Raise less.

Fold now.

Go to the bar for a little drink and a cry.

I'd prefer the call and fold in the dark option

Why? Your drawing dead? XD

I think not 3betting is the best play at this stage of the tourny

Why? He found out where he was...

Think he found out where he might be.


I fold here.


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Never agree with losing chips to "find out where you are".


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GFY!!!!!!!!!!!!

FWIW, I did think about not 3betting. Problem is that if I don't 3bet here and I get to showdown, certain players will see I haven't 3bet KK (even though from sb) and so none of my 3/4/5 bets are getting ANY respect.

Don't really agree with this, if I 3bet less I prefer not 3betting at all. Making it ~800 is going to make it impossible to play post, resulting in me probably losing the hand a lot of the time against good aggro players.

Can you go into more detail on the merits of this?

I bet that doesn't happen very often :P

+1

early in tournament I often only three bet from the blinds and just call a ton in position because players are bad/go broke with one pair/etc.

would be interested to hear why you'd just call here pre as well and then what flops you donk, c-c, c-r or c/f

3betting from the blinds early in tournaments is pretty tez, i guess that's why you have to flat the kk too

Personally I am the complete opposite. If I think a player is particularly bad I will 3bet oop.

On the whole, when starting a hand 300bb deep, I think that 3betting oop more often then not leads to winning a small pot or losing a big one. You aren't going to be 3betting 99 at this stage, so it makes incredibly easy for the villain to play almost perfectly against you post.

lol wtf is everybody on drugs. Incase you arent aware this is sammy fkn mac and super famous for spinning up stacks in live comps and getting lots of bigs in with 6 high.

If you work hard on getting this image not 3betting kk is just plain bad. I think the fact u know priyan on a personal level and he is aware of ur image is enough to 3bet not taking into account people have seen u on ukipt and blonde updates and probably think ur spewy.

If its only pryian 4betting im more than happy to cib and snap fast. Once the other guy gets aggro too just make a live soul read and flip a coin in ur head.

Sizing is fine/good/standard too.

also just because we got 3bet and contemplating a fold doesnt mean we were 3betting to see where we were. Its a live comp and were getting 5bet, people peel insanely wide and even if it wasnt the plan 3betting and folding to more aggresion is perfectly fine and not in any way shape or form an information raise. The squeeze pre was purely for value.

Pleno flipping his lid itt

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Don't see a huge amount of point to 3betting personally, we're OOP with very deep stacks and a face up range with (assumed) ZERO information on our oppo's, we're hardly ever going to be playing for stacks so building the pot isn't particularly important but chip preservation is. Plus the added factor of a really disguised hand and a spot where If we like the board texture by the turn/river we're going to be able to value bet our hand really well.

oh this is Sam Mac? Hey derrr Sammy :)

wow this is gross cos you defo should 3bet. Meh I think I'd just go with it here, can;t deicde if flatting the 4bet and c/r getting it in on most flops or c/c c/j depending on the SPR (cba re-reading OP) or if you should just small 5/call

prolly just flat the 4bet and stack off as with your reputation that is prolly the line you'll get least respect for.

given positions and available information and holding i would not fold here

probably correct for a lot of people to fold tho. just not you, or i imo