So I haven’t been playing as much as I like lately, and when I do get the chance, I’ve been focusing more on play than writing. That said, I busted out of an NL Bounty tournament on Cake pretty quick this evening, and thought the hand would be worth discussing:
Situation: Early in NL Hold’em bounty tournament.
Average stack size: 5100.
Position, Middle (UTG+3).
Blinds: $75/$150
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Seat 1: Big Blind ($3,007 in chips)
Seat 2: UTG ($4,869 in chips)
Seat 3: UTG +1 ($3,479 in chips)
Seat 4: UTG +2 ($1,771 in chips)
Seat 5: MainEventOrBust ($5,200 in chips)
Seat 6: Villian 1 ($6,227 in chips)
Seat 7: Villian 2 ($5,560 in chips)
Seat 8: Button ($2,695 in chips) DEALER
Seat 9: Sitting Out ($9,220 in chips) <Just sat down between blinds>
Seat 10: Small Blind ($10,799 in chips)
Small Blind: posts small blind 75
Big Blind: posts Big Blind 150
Dealt to MainEventOrBust [Ks,Kh]
UTG: folds
UTG +1: folds
UTG +2: folds
MainEventOrBust: raises to 600
Villian 1: calls 600
Villian 2: calls 600
Button: folds
Small Blind: folds
Big Blind: folds
*** FLOP *** [2c,5c,4c]
MainEventOrBust: is all in 4600.00
Villian 1: folds
Villian 2: calls 4,600
MainEventOrBust: shows [Ks Kh]
Villian 2: shows [Ac 3c]
*** TURN *** 6s
*** RIVER *** 7s
***SHOW DOWN***
Villian 2: wins 11,225 with Straight Flush, Five high
So I figured with the pot over $2k, it was big enough, and without a club in my hand, I pushed all-in to freeze out the draws, and perhaps even represent that I have the nut draw with my overpair. I figure that if someone has one club, they may ignore the bad odds, and call anyway to try to claim my bounty. Of course as the HH shows, even running KK wouldn’t save me, since my opponent flopped a straight flush.
My question is this: Given that it was a bounty tournament, would playing this different save my stack? Should I have check-folded an overpair with that flop this early?
Or, did I play it just right, and should continue to play this the same way and just move on with my life?
I posted this to a couple of forums, and will share valuable insight of others in this same thread.