Poker Tropical

With (Ks,Kh) our player makes a raise from the small blind and is called by the big blind. The flop comes down (5c,8c,9c) Our small blind immediately shoves all in and is called by (Ac,6s). The turn is a (5) and the (7) completes the Straight for the big blind player. I saw this hand being discussed by other players and so thought I would share some thoughts on the play in this article.

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The small raise from the small blind is fine in my opinion, limping would also be fine seeing as th action has been folded around.
the big problem for our player holding Kings comes by way of the flop. The flop is about as ugly as it could be without containing an Ace. Sometimes, the play of shoving all in will work for the player with pocket Kings, if his opponent does not have a set, a Straight, or some combination containing the nut Flush draw… It will probably work, but only through sheer luck of the opponent not having a hand. If you do happen to walk into a big hand, it’s already too late to take your chips back.

He is a little unlucky that the Straight or Flush card does arrive, but in my opinion, he could have put out a medium sized bet to try and judge if his opponent had connected or had a club draw on the flop, and then made a good lay down later in the hand once he had bought this information. He would then have given himself the chance to make a good fold and save the majority of his stack, rather than shoving, then praying, then ultimately finding he has walked into a hand.

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