Curious if I overplayed this hand. I am currently 2nd place in chips with 31 to go in a $20 180 SnG. Do I not want to tango with the only person at the table who can cripple me?


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (7 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: Bet The Pot)

UTG (t4245)
MP1 (t17150)
MP2 (t9776)
CO (t1765)
Hero (t23632)
SB (t9104)
BB (t7555)

Preflop: Hero is Button with [Kd], [Ks].
1 fold, MP1 raises to t1200, 2 folds, Hero raises to t3600, 2 folds, MP1 calls t2400.

-Way too weak of a reraise?-

Flop: (t7325) [Th], [5h], [3d] (2 players)
MP1 checks, Hero bets t5200, MP1 raises to t13525, Hero calls?

I see myself as having to call the reraise, so I dunno if I played it poorly before that to paint myself into this corner.

??? You played it pretty much textbook. Most of the time you will be thrilled to see what he turns over when you call his flop bet, b/c you will have him crushed (as his range includes holdings as weak as A10, JJ, QQ, flush draw, etc).

If this is one of those rare cases where he flopped a set or holds AA, so be it.

I like the preflop reraise, I like the flop bet, and yeah you gotta call. Doing some quick math it look like ur gettin better that 2.5-1 on the all in after your lead. To me this smells like a flush draw or could easily be QQ or JJ. If he has AA he disguised it well.

Any reads??? Reads would definately help here.

Random thoughts, the bubble in the 180 man is really insignificant, the only realy money is the top 3 spots. So, I would not concern myself too much with bubble strategy thoughts at this time.

Without reads, I probably call here. Villian made a standard raise from middle position, and called your reraise. Big pairs probably come over the top, unless he is trapping. That flop looks really good for a middle PP, so it looks like he is pushing to end the action with a mid PP (88-JJ). In that case you are ahead.

What could you really be afraid of? AA could be setting a trap, but that is unlikely because he should expect you to make a continuation bet, and he would get more chips from you there. You could be up against a set, but again I think that this played kind of strange for a set. Remember, they want to get paid off from you. Any hand that is beating you probably would not play it this fast after the flop. The flop is really unlikely to have helped you, so he is expecting you to fold. If he wants you to fold, that is a good arguement for a call. A lot of players would play middle pocket pairs this way, hoping you had AK and called anyways.

My question too. As in, is he capable of raising UTG+1 with TT? If so, he'd probably call the re-raise. Which, by the way, was fine. You really could've raised more but can't argue too much with that part. Flop bet is good too. Hard to see him raising and calling a re-raise UTG+1 with 55 or 33 so TT is my only fear. As others have said - anything up to JJ or a flush draw seems very likely. Would really suck if he nailed that flush but you're certainly ahead at this point.

I vote push.