Good play? Bad play?

[Laeelin]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)


CO (t3540)
Button (t2710)
SB (t2185)
Hero (t1715)
UTG (t1775)
MP (t1575)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K, 3.
UTG calls t50, MP calls t50, CO calls t50, 1 fold, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t250) 8, 2, 9 (5 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks, MP checks, CO checks.

Turn: (t250) 9 (5 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG bets t50, MP calls t50, CO calls t50, SB calls t50, Hero raises to t400

Thoughts?

[ripjohngotti]

Insane

[taipan168]

What buyin is this? With all those callers it looks like a case of FPS to me.

[Laeelin]

FPS?

it's low, 10 i think.

[Laeelin]

Insane

Reasoning?
What do you think they have?
What do they think I have?

[kevster]

Thoughts?

My thought is "what are the chances that you're ahead here with a (board) pair of 9's and a king kicker". Somewhere near zero. Despite the weak betting, I wouldn't be surpised if one of them has two pair or even trips and are (somewhat donkishly) slowplaying them. Also, at lease one of them will have an Ace for sure.

You're up against a bet (regardless of size) that 3 people have called and you nothing apart from the same board pair that everyone else has. I fold all day long here.

[taipan168]

FPS?

Fancy Play Syndrome.

At a $11 buyin, I'd say at least one of them has the flush draw but with 4 opps the chance that one of them has caught a piece and won't fold is too great IMO.

[Laeelin]

would you like it with 3 players? 2 players?

[taipan168]

would you like it with 3 players? 2 players?

Against one opp I would do it as a semi-bluff if I had some outs, eg. if I had the K 3, in any other situation I might think about it but just fold in the end.

[Fortune 500]

I don't mind the occasional case of FPS, and certainly, there's weakness to attack here IF:

There are less players

And you aren't committing 25 percent of your stack to the move. This is a big stack play, IMO.