Kings in £1K mini open on the bubble.

Grae

Was sitting in 6th when this hand came up and the money started at 40 and there were 44 left.

This was the first hand I played against this player.

My thoughts on the hand are this....

The player raises from the button as the BB is an away player so I think he is going to steal the blinds.  With Kings I think it is worth the 3bet.

On the flop with an over pair I cbet and when the push comes in I think that I am looking at AK or TT to QQ and he is looking to force me off the pot.  I think that it it had been KK or AA there would have been a 4bet pre.  With the 3bet call pre I did not put him on a 9.

Could I have folded this hand having put a third of my stack in?

GraeSmall blind 300.00300.0032375.00dunnyoBig blind 600.00900.003662.50 Your hole cardsKK   Rick25itfcFold    DanmegellaFold    sodallFold    DancbearRaise 1800.002700.0023052.50GraeRaise 3900.006600.0028475.00dunnyoFold    DancbearCall 2400.009000.0020652.50Flop  299   GraeBet 6750.0015750.0021725.00DancbearAll-in 20652.5036402.500.00GraeCall 13902.5050305.007822.50GraeShowKK   DancbearShow9A   Turn  A   River  J   DancbearWinFull House, 9s and Aces50305.00 50305.00

unknown_username

Hard not to call.But you have 25 bbs left.Dont envy your position m8.

Paul

percival09

Would you've posted this if you won the hand? You know you can never let this go

1267

Yeee you played it fine, just very unlucky.

Could maybe raise a tad more pre, to about 4400-5000 as you are out of position, but he's probably calling anyway.

Pretty bad call from him pre (in my opinion), but hes played it well post flop

UL -

rancid

nh ul

unknown_username

Hi Grae

I think i would 3x his raise and let him decide. With A9 he may have let you have it as he's thinking that he's  looking at a pair or Ahigher hand which he was. Once flop has come down comes down you can't really put him on a 9 but flush draw maybe.  i think you are correct to call and  just unlucky then.

People just run good sometimes. I saw it in a bh tonight where a maniac(correct poker term not intended to be defamatory) obviously had a strategy to do this from the off, see if he could get a big stack and railroad everyone. He had some amazing suck outs and you have to say it worked for him.....BUT how many times has it not, i ask myself?

jams88

3bet a little more maybe pre but still think this is fine wp, ul

KAM99

Yeah difficult to credit him with a 9 in this situation. I guess I can semi see that he has callled with pot odds of 3:1 with postion and against a range you're not often much worse than a 3:1 dog generally preflop. So i may have raised a little more preflop, but that said its still pretty loose of him when other than A9x board or the one he got he won't ever be loving his hand when you cbet.

Thats just blurb above as you can't fold at this point I don't think, as like said so rare he has a 9 given the action and board having two. Far more often like you said AQ-AK or some other PP more common.

EvilPingu

Nh.

grantorino

Prob make it a little more pre

Flop is fine

GREGHOGG

You must go broke here. There is no point nitting it up for a min cash, if you win this pot which you were unlucky not to do, you have enough chips to cruise to the last 10 and probably the final table where the bigger money is.

If you are thinking of folding KK in this spot, you will struggle to win or ft in mtts.

percival09

In Response to Re: Kings in £1K mini open on the bubble.:

Prob make it a little more pre Flop is fine
Posted by grantorino

disagree, I think 3b size is fine

grantorino

Don't think there is much wrong with sizing pre, would prefer a little bigger myself for value

Kam not sure A9 will have good enough odds v range when he only is guaranteed to see 3 cards

percival09

Also actually, I'd cbet less