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[Metro]

Sitting at a weekly tournament that I play in. Nothing big, $20 buy-in, NLHE Tournament of 70 or so people, about 30 minutes into it. Very loose field.Starting stack - 5,000 in chipsI'm big stack at my table with about 22,000My opponent, has about 18,000I'm sitting small blind on a 10-top.3rd position limps in.4th position limps in.I look down at Kc Ks in the hole. Blinds are 200-400.I raise to 1,600 to go.3rd position folds4th calls (known for reckless calls preflop, plays tighter after)Flop comes out 4s-7s-10sI check, trying to feel him out.He bets at me for 4x the big blind - 1,600.Immediately I put him on 1 of 2 hands. Either he flopped a flush or he's on As-10oI call.Turn comes out 3c.Again, I check to see what he'll do.He comes back out firing. Another 1,600 to see the river.I assume since he's not coming out harder, and since that would give me implied odds to chase a flush to the river, he must be on As-10oI raise back at him. Another 3,400 on top of his raise, giving him only about 3 to 1 odds for his money to call if he's indeed chasing the flush . He thinks about it for a few seconds, then calls. River - 6sI check again, trying to set a trap/feel him out, considering there is only 1 card in the deck that can beat me at this point.He raises 3,000 at me.Considering there's only the 1 card out there that beats me (3000 to call for about 19,000 already in the pot), I feel obliged to call. Sure enough, he flips over As-10o I've played the hand over in my head about 100 times trying to figure out how I could have played it differently to win. Apart from actually verbally instructing him on the turn that I had a pocket pair higher than anything on the board and instructing him of the fact that he only has a 1 in 6 chance of beating me on the river (He doesn't understand implied/pot odds at all), hoping he believes me, of course, I can't see a way that I could have gotten rid of this guy apart from possibly pushing much harder preflop and picking up only the blinds and the limps. (Hell, picking up the 1,200 would have been huge compared to the 11,200 I just lost in the hand.)Since he's sitting top pair, top kicker, 4 to the nut flush after the flop, does anyone have any advice on how I should have played this/where I misplayed it, or is this just a beat I have to accept?

[akishore]

how could you act first every street when he's the BB and you're in middle position?the hand makes almost no sense except if i assume that he came out betting every street, which would change the hand dynamics greatly.as for the hand, three-suited boards are really stupid. they have the magical ability to make any A of the suit stay in to the river, regardless. you made a good read, but there's nothing you can do but call. it's not really a bad beat but you didn't really play the hand wrong either. i would say be more aggressive on the flop and raise him the pot, but he would have called and you would have still lost the hand (not that that's relevant), so that's about my only advice--make the draws pay, don't wait till the river to see if they hit so you can make a crying call.aseem

[Metro]

akishore said:

how could you act first every street when he's the BB and you're in middle position?

My mistake. confused positioning with another hand (had a few beats that night). I was small blind. 3rd position limped in, he was in 4th position, also limped.

[Alcatraz]

He's either on a flush draw or he has a flush. I'd push all in on the flop. If he has the flush, you're going to pay him off all the way anyway, and if he's on the draw, make him pay the max price to get it.