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10-28-2021 , 12:42 AM
I am pretty new to tournaments, so my logic is probably ****. Please pick it apart at any decision point. Thanks

25 bb deep halfway through a low stakes bounty tournament. My bounty is half the buy-in. Folds to hero in CO with Ac5d.

Raise to 2bb, SB calls (60 bb), BB calls (30 bb, 1/4 buy-in bounty).
I had absolutely no idea what to make of SB's flatting range. I thought it could include a good amount of strong hands, trying to induce shoves from BB, but I was not sure.

(6 bb pot) Flop comes AsQhJh, checks around.
I checked for pot control and to avoid x/r. I don't really want to call any x/r at this stack depth. And I was still weary of SB who I thought could have hands as strong as QQ.

(6 bb pot) Turn is 10d, checks to hero who bets 3 bb, SB calls, BB raises to 10, hero folds.
What worse hands are calling my bet here? All flush draws because my straights and sets/2p are paying them off on the river. My range is also protected with lots of Kx that checks flop, so in theory I shouldn't face many raises. Maybe theres still not enough worse hands that call.

The fold I'm sure is standard with a weak hand like I had. I thought I wasn't deep enough to just call. Thought about turning it into a bluff bc my range has lots of Kx and theirs shouldn't. But in the end there is not enough fold equity due to my bounty.
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10-28-2021 , 06:23 AM
Looks fine to me on each street.

I'm not sure how you can say the BB's range "shouldn't" have Kx given that he's calling to close the action in a multiway pot. In any case, that range changes when he check-raises the turn, and I don't see any reason to think he's bluffing.
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10-28-2021 , 10:36 AM
I didn't think much of his Kx would check the turn because I have a lot of hands that are pure give ups and are checking behind.
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10-28-2021 , 05:51 PM
Ah, got it. Maybe he suspects you have a one pair hand and he can get another bet from you that way. Or it's a low stakes tournament and he's only thinking about how good it will feel to get one extra bet by check raising.

In any case I don't think there's reason to think he's bluffing: Either he's thinking "I have the nuts," or if he's good enough to be a thinking player, (which you need him to be to be check-raising here without Kx), then you probably have Kx too often to make a bluff profitable-- I don't know if he would think that but it's certainly a reasonable thing to think.
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