Flopping a Flush

[Cavalry21]

Early in a $10 SnG on Absolute. Before you say it, folding preflop is probably the BEST play, but I limped a suited gapper and hit....sorta.....At what point to you put the guy on the higher flush and slow down. Def. should not have called at the end but...

Stage #121584711: Holdem Single Tournament No Limit $10 [ 2005-05-11 21:30:05 ]
Seat 1 - STU55 $1690 in chips
Seat 2 - DENNY202 $1890 in chips
Seat 3 - NICKTHEGEEK $1660 in chips
Seat 4 - IMATRAVELIN $1160 in chips
Seat 5 - CASS7070 $1200 in chips
Seat 6 - ICE_MAN18 $1400 in chips
Seat 7 - JOEL_ALUNDAY $1530 in chips
Seat 8 - DANALBERT $1520 in chips
Seat 9 - CAVALRY21 $1450 in chips
*** BLIND [dealer 3] ***
IMATRAVELIN - Post small blind $10
CASS7070 - Post big blind $20
CAVALRY21 - Pocket [6h,8h]
ICE_MAN18 - Folds
JOEL_ALUNDAY - Folds
DANALBERT - Folds
CAVALRY21 - Calls $20
STU55 - Folds
DENNY202 - Calls $20
NICKTHEGEEK - Calls $20
IMATRAVELIN - Calls $10
CASS7070 - Checks
*** FLOP [2h,7h,Ah] ***
IMATRAVELIN - Checks
CASS7070 - Checks
CAVALRY21 - Bets $100
DENNY202 - Calls $100
NICKTHEGEEK - Folds
IMATRAVELIN - Folds
CASS7070 - Folds
*** TURN [2h,7h,Ah,4d] ***
CAVALRY21 - Bets $300
DENNY202 - Calls $300
*** RIVER [2h,7h,Ah,4d,10c] ***
CAVALRY21 - Bets $520
DENNY202 - Raises $520 to $1040
CAVALRY21 - All-In $510
DENNY202 - returned ($10) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DENNY202 - Show cards [Kh,10h]
CAVALRY21 - Lost mucks
*** RESULT ***
Total Pot($2960)
Board [2h,7h,Ah,4d,10c]
STU55 - Folded on the POCKET CARDS
DENNY202 - Total ($2960) HI$2960)Flush, ace high [Kh,10h -
B:Ah,P:Kh,P:10h,B:7h,B:2h]

[hagakure]

Personally I would have been VERY suspicious once he bet that 520. As far as when you should have folded, you pretty much answered that yourself.

[digitaldoc]

Interesting.

IMO: I don't mind the limp pre-flop, although not my style. But why the limp? If you were thinking hit the flop and double up early, then there isn't a much better flop than this one (minus the straight flush) and I would have pushed hard till the raise on the end and then folded thinking I was beat with a higher flush.

With the smooth call of the pot sized bet on the flop, alarms start to sound, I would be thinking he has Aces up, a set or a flush. The strength of my flush makes me concerned and without to many hands to get a better assesment on the caller, I would slow down with a 1/2 pot raise on turn. This doesn't give him great odds to call if he has a single high heart and doesn't put as many chips at risk. If he smooth calls again then I'll follow up with another 1/2 pot bet on river. If he raises on the turn, I'll find a better place to take his chips and fold.

Just my opinion...

[drmcboy]

Yeah I think you played it fine until the end, you're always going to lose some chips in these spots. Maybe a smaller bet on the end, 300 again I think would have been fine.

[TLR]

I think you played it fine until the river.

I think your bet on the river was way too high

If he was chasing something and did not catch it then he would not have called your river bet.

There are only two conditions that he would call your river bet and you would win
1. A complete and total fish believing his Ax may be enough to win
2. A lower flush, which is highly unlikly (2 cards out of 3,4,5 H)

I would have bet a lot lower on the river - maybe 100-200, If he reraises you have to consider the following
1. Bluff
2. Higher flush

If you believe he is bluffing - fine, call his bet, and if you believe the higher flush you still have about 800 chips to battle another day.
The 520 Bet put you in position in which you were so pot committed you have to call his reraise