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Originally Posted by WayneBurdett
This is a monthly pub game that my friends and I play for £50 rebuy plus £50 addon at break. 40 minute blinds. Table is 9 handed.
Blinds are 300/600. I have about 35k. Villain has approx 28k.
Villain is a solid tight player and doesn't get out of line too much.
Villain raises to 1800. Button calls. I'm in big blind with Ace ten hearts and I call. Sometimes I'll 3bet this hand but against this player I won't because he plays quite a tight range utg especially against these players who are mostly very loose. I don't want to be blown off the hand as he will 4bet with Ace king and big pairs.
Flop comes queen ten 3 with 2 hearts. I have 2nd pair and a flush draw.
Checks to utg. He bets 2k. Button calls. I raise to 11k. Utg tanks for a minute and shoves. Folds back to me.
I figure he has kings or ace queen. I don't rule out a set or aces but I've. Just raised it to more than a third of his stack and I'm happy to gamble for around 50 bigs just like I'm happy to get it in with Ace king preflop for 50 bigs. I figure I have out regardless of what he has. If he has kings then my ace is also live.
I call. I turn the flush and win. Villain not happy. Has a tantrum and storms off and doesn't come back and gets more bad beats at casino. He then berates me via text message for many hours on how badly I played it. Said I should never have raised him on flop and it is dreadful committing 50 bigs etc
I go on to win tournament.
How badly did I play the hand?
The call is fine. You have 60bb and a decent hand 3 ways.
You have 2 choices. Play it conservatively and wait to see what happens. Play it aggressively and add fold equity. You chose the latter. Perfectly fine.
He led out for only 2k into a pot of 6k. This move isn't perfect for him. You immediately made a very strong raise. That should have set off alarm bells. There's 26k in the pot when you're faced with calling another $13k. Thus, your decision was call another $13k to win ~60. You have plenty of equity to do that. You played fine. That's just poker.
That said, your overbet of the pot on the flop is a mistake. With just middle pair it's not like you're ahead.
