Check My Line

[Sprayed]

Mall99 has been running over the table. He's been making huge raises with crazy hands and calling AI's with hands like K7 etc. and was sucking out like a mad man. I was looking to trap this guy on this hand. I checked the flop knowing that he would bet. Was this the wrong train of thought? Should I have played it standard with lead out bet? The UTG raise was not that scary for me since he has been opening with a wide range. I wasn't too worried about BAI1 since this was a low card flop and without a reraise I didn't put him on anything better than my tens. I guess my question is, since we are close to the FT should I risk my tourney life on it?

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PokerStars Game #5811905470: Tournament #28910217, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVII (4000/8000) - 2006/08/05 - 21:59:59 (ET)
Table '28910217 43' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Sprayed (360934 in chips)
Seat 2: mall99 (335604 in chips)
Seat 3: kcdthai56 (57758 in chips)
Seat 4: mbruno_420 (131278 in chips)
Seat 6: crevetor (79546 in chips)
Seat 8: BAI1 (235791 in chips)
Seat 9: Silverback62 (98848 in chips)
Sprayed: posts the ante 400
mall99: posts the ante 400
kcdthai56: posts the ante 400
mbruno_420: posts the ante 400
crevetor: posts the ante 400
BAI1: posts the ante 400
Silverback62: posts the ante 400
Silverback62: posts small blind 4000
Sprayed: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Sprayed [Th Ts]
mall99: raises 32000 to 40000
kcdthai56: folds
mbruno_420: folds
crevetor: folds
BAI1: calls 40000
Silverback62: folds
Sprayed: calls 32000
*** FLOP *** [6c 6h 5d]
Sprayed: checks
mall99: bets 96000
BAI1: folds
Sprayed: raises 224534 to 320534 and is all-in
mall99: calls 199204 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [6c 6h 5d] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [6c 6h 5d 4h] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Total pot 717208 | Rake 0
Board [6c 6h 5d 4h 9h]
Seat 1: Sprayed (big blind) showed [Th Ts] and lost with two pair, Tens and Sixes
Seat 2: mall99 showed [3h 5h] and won (717208) with a flush, Nine high
Seat 3: kcdthai56 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: mbruno_420 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: crevetor folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: BAI1 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: Silverback62 (small blind) folded before Flop

[chardrian]

Looking to trap was a great idea - but you don't want to trap by calling there. If the flop comes with J+ you have no idea where you stand. I would just much rather play TT heads-up then playing it 3 way.

BAI is giving you a great opportunity to squeeze there preflop, so squeeze. Just go all-in peflop.

As played on the flop, yeah the check-raise is the thing to do.

[Sprayed]

Looking to trap was a great idea - but you don't want to trap by calling there. If the flop comes with J+ you have no idea where you stand. I would just much rather play TT heads-up then playing it 3 way.

BAI is giving you a great opportunity to squeeze there preflop, so squeeze. Just go all-in peflop.

As played on the flop, yeah the check-raise is the thing to do.

I was thinking about a squeeze play at the time. Good to know that I had the right thought process going. Thanks