kk with ace on flop

[ed cooper]

evening gents... any advice on how i couldve played this better?

PokerStars Game #41453640174: Tournament #254691558, $6.00+$0.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2010/03/20 17:13:29 ET
Table '254691558 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 2: tgatort (970 in chips)
Seat 3: hero (1350 in chips)
Seat 6: wait4royal (1690 in chips)
Seat 7: WesleyJ15 (3660 in chips)
Seat 8: jaymax20 (3005 in chips)
Seat 9: sdelixer (2825 in chips)
jaymax20: posts small blind 50
sdelixer: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hero [Ks Kh]
tgatort: folds
hero: raises 150 to 250
wait4royal: folds
WesleyJ15: folds
jaymax20: folds
sdelixer: calls 150
*** FLOP *** [6c Ad Qc] (pot 550)
sdelixer: checks
hero: checks
*** TURN *** [6c Ad Qc] [2d]
sdelixer: bets 500
hero: ????

so i guess im folding.. could i afford to cbet here on the flop? i had 1150 in chips.. the blinds were about to go up imminently and coming to me..

a min raise pre wouldve kept the pot smaller and perhaps 'allowed' me a cbet on the flop. thoughts?

thanks

ed

[taipan168]

You played it fine, now unfortunately you have to fold the turn.

I wouldn't c-bet the flop, regardless of the size of that c-bet. This is one of those situations where it is likely that hands that beat you will call and hands that you beat will fold.

I wouldn't minraise preflop either - when you have KK you want to try to get as many chips into the pot as possible, and if they'll call 2x BB they'll call 2.5x or 3x as well.

[baudib]

played very well and totally standard as long as you folded turn.