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Ask any group of poker players how you played your hand and they’ll come up with dozens of different opinions. That’s just the nature of the game.
Each week, Card Player will select a hand from the high-stakes, big buy-in poker world, break it down and show that there’s more than one way to get the job done.
The Scenario
With blinds of 6,000-12,000 with a 2,000 ante and a stack of 410,000, you are well below average but still have over 34 big blinds. There are 11 players remaining and the average stack is 1.1 million.
You look down at Q
10
and raise to 30,000 in the cutoff. The button, a good player stacked with 1,140,000, makes the call. The flop comes down Q 5 2 and you decide to check.
Your opponent bets 46,000 and you have 380,000 behind.
The Questions
Do you call, raise or fold? If calling, what is your plan for the turn should a safe card hit? What is your plan for the turn if a spade or overcard hit? If raising, are you raising to protect your hand against a draw? If so, how much do you raise? Is there any room for a check-raise, fold?
What Actually Happened
Facing a bet of 46,000 from Daniel Negreanu on a board of Q 5 2, Tino Lechich opted to move all in for his last 380,000 holding Q 10.
Negreanu snap called and tabled K Q
, but the board ran out 5 A, forcing a chop. Lechich was eliminated in 11th place by eventual runner up Daniel Marton a short time later, earning AUD $51,941.
Negreanu went on to win the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific main event, his fifth bracelet and the first place prize of AUD $1,038,825.
What would you have done and why? Let us know in the comments section below and try not to be results oriented. The best answer will receive a six-month Card Player magazine digital subscription.
