interesting to me at least, looking for opinions.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

MP2 (t1550)
MP3 (t1440)
CO (t1480)
Button (t1590)
SB (t1480)
BB (t1480)
Hero (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1500)
MP1 (t1480)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with K, K.
Hero raises to t100, 5 folds, Button calls t100, 2 folds.

I am under the gun in the first round of a $10 STT on Stars. The play in these is weak. I have no reads in these as it probably only the 7th hand of the tournament. The villian is 4 tabling all the same STTs as me but his Sharkscope shows him to be distinctly average running a 7% ROI over 220 games. I pick up KK and make my standard first level raise to 100 to flush out the real **** whilst not outpricing a call from a hand we smash.

Flop: (t230) J, J, 7 (2 players)
Hero bets t120, Button calls t120.

Flop comes JJ7 and i lead out for just under half the pot. My reasoning here is the button has called and may well think i have missed with AK and look to raise me out the pot taking my bet as weak continuation bet. Unfortunately for us he flat calls. What do we think here? Bigger raise, if so pot it or 2/3s. Given the paired board i am not so worried about the flush draw but you can never rule anything out at this level.

Turn: (t470) J (2 players)

Third J arrives on the turn. What is our best line now? I have taken away the pot size for the river so you can make up your own mind.

River: 7 (2 players)

The river brings a 7 completing the house on board. Do we shove for value here? I want to know what the best line to take is.


There arent all that many interesting pots with play on every street in these STTs so i thought i'd post this one up for opinions. Thanks.

I would almost certainly bet a bit more on the flop, up to 2/3rds sounds about right.

On the turn, I like 1/2-2/3 pot again. We're almost always ahead, and if he happened to have 77, we outdrew him.

On the river, I think a shove is in order. Had we bet ~300 on the turn, there's about 1070 in the pot, so our shove is about pot sized. Since the board has made a boat, most donks in these things will call with any two.

^^^^^^ Shouldn't you be saying something about posting in the correct forum?

Tsk Tsk... so lax.

Oh jesus, I thought I was in the Tourney forum, lmao.

Nice catch.

i guess it wasnt that interesting a hand. really i wanted to know what kinda of range you can put the button on after he calls on the flop and turn?

i lead the turn btw, for around half the pot.

Button could have a flush draw, gutshot straight, a jack, a 7, a pocket pair, his range is pretty wide when he just calls the flop bet, to be honest.