Help With a hand

Blinds are $1/$2

I get dealt K Qo

I raise to $5. Two callers

Flop is K Q 7, rainbow. Im first to act. So I raise to $15. One guy folds. He re-raises me to $30. I put it up to $45. He goes all in for around $170 total, I call.

I kind of thought he was on a straight draw, maybe an AK...

I show my K/Q two pair, he flips over K 10o. Im so happy when I see his hand.

Turn card is a 10. I dont like it but he has only two outs left assuming no one else folded them.

River is a 10 giving him the boat and I lose.


What did I do wrong? Should I not have re-raised his re-raise? Should I not have called his all in? Or did I play it somewhat correctly?

You did nothing wrong, you got all your money in with the best hand.

Just got (incredibly) unlucky.

You made the right play and suffered a bad beat.

man you played fine

Holdem Hi: 990 enumerated boards containing 7s Kh Qh
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Ks Qd 944 95.35 35 3.54 11 1.11 0.959
Ts Kd 35 3.54 944 95.35 11 1.11 0.041

You were a 95% favortie to win, nice play bad luck


-anto

i agree..you played this hand perfect, there was no option but to call his all-in..only thing you could be scared of is trips, but how can you lay down two pair on a rainbow board? you can't. its a definite call and he just happened to get lucky...its part of the game, nothin you could do here.

Originally Posted by ™

Blinds are $1/$2

I get dealt K Qo

I raise to $5. Two callers

Flop is K Q 7, rainbow. Im first to act. So I raise to $15. One guy folds. He re-raises me to $30. I put it up to $45. He goes all in for around $170 total, I call.

I kind of thought he was on a straight draw, maybe an AK...

I show my K/Q two pair, he flips over K 10o. Im so happy when I see his hand.

Turn card is a 10. I dont like it but he has only two outs left assuming no one else folded them.

River is a 10 giving him the boat and I lose.


What did I do wrong? Should I not have re-raised his re-raise? Should I not have called his all in? Or did I play it somewhat correctly?

Ditto the previous posters. You got bad luck. To answer your questions specifically, no reraising with top two pair was exactly the right thing to do. Calling all in with the best hand was also the right call. Right now you are in pain from a bad beat. The tone of your questions reflect that. You seem to be asking yourself: when should I have folded? With top two pair that question should never even be near your mind.

That is how the hand turned out. However lets play some what if games with the way you played the flop.

The only thing I might have done differently in your position would have been to raise more. the 15 raise is giving the guy a 6 to1 on his money. If you put him on a straight draw the raise was way to small to scare him off. Also what were you trying to accomplish with the reraise? Value, Information, or Bluff. In your shoes Bluff was out. In the other two I don't like the small reraise. A raise of at least 1/2 or 3/4 of the pot would be in order. That would also have made the other guy sweat it out some more.

What kind of table image did you have? Did the other guy think that if he raised big you would have folded? Putting my self in the other guys mind the small raise might have signaled to me you were on a draw. Maybe AJ. so an AI might have gotten me the pot right then.

I hope that input helps. Nothing really cures a bad beat so take it is stride and keep on playing.

Best Regards,

VF-1

oh man, I just lost a good amount of my bank roll (which isnt that big, but still) in ring games, and I felt they where bad beats, but this is just horrible. Im no expert but I dont see how you could have folded. Only thing that I would have put him on was

A.) He overvalued his hand
B.) AK
C.) 77 in the hole.

I think you made the right move. And really, even if you didnt reraise, and the 10 came on the turn, most likely he would be all in then and there. and if not, on the river, it would have been a hard fold for you to make, it might have been the right fold, assuming it got to the river before the AI, but it would have been a hard one. So pretty much almost anyway you look at it you would have been all in.

I lost a large part of my bankroll to this almost exact situation except that the guy was holding pocket 7s. It was awful. Then I was put on tilt, knew I was on tilt, and proceeded to lose pretty much all of my bankroll.

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