Hand Analysis - KJ V 7,Five
Tournament details: 4,000 poker chip starting stack. One rebuy, one add on. Rebuy is first 3 levels.
During rebuy period:
Player A Doubled up early at the casino and was up to 8k+. Later on he gets involved in a hand playing online poker with 7,5 suited by calling a small raise in position. He flops an open-ended straight draw. His opponent, Player B, continue bets on K,6,4 board. Player A considers shoving. Player B has about 6500.
Player A flat calls the continuation bet and now gets heads up. The bet on the flop was less than the pot.
Turn is a 7. Player A has a pair and the open-ended draw. Now his outs include 7,5,3,8. Player B bets pot, and Player A shoves all in, having player B covered. Player B calls with KJ. River blanks.
What is the best play, and at what stage? Should Player A have shoved on the flop?
Firstly, Player A did not have to play the hand to begin with. He decided that during the rebuy period, he could take a chance at stacking an opponent for a small price preflop.
I asked him what his ideal flop would be, and he said it would be very similar to the one he got. Flopping the draw to the nuts is one of your goals when calling with speculative hands. Since he was in position, how he played would be very dependant on how aggressively Player B would play his hand.
