Re: Common Tourney Situation

On Sep 30 2005 6:07 PM, Mark Brislin wrote:

> I have been running into these situation a lot recently. Midway through a
> tournament with at least 15x bb. Get dealt KK or QQ in middle. Raise it up,
get
> one caller. comes down AArag with your KK or KK rag with your QQ. I always
lead
> out on the flop and then go from there but usually i just assume he doesnt
have
> it. How do you go about these hands? Thanks

I'd be a lot more fearful of AAx with KK, then KKx with QQ. I tend to
think that people are more inclined to play Ax then Kx.

Id try and play the pot as cheaply as possible... you are either way ahead
or way behind on these flops.. so escalating the pot gives them more
leeway to bluff you off it, or for them to value bet you on the
turn/river. (which you will likely feel obliged to call)


re-re-bluffing with J6 rocks

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