first round of a MTT , nothing exciting but for some reason i felt weird after hand.
Hand #289266901 at table: $3000 Guaranteed
Started: Fri May 05 19:04:42 2006

kt1974 is at seat 1 with 1500.00
surferiop is at seat 2 with 1430.00
gommster is at seat 3 with 1470.00
boombap is at seat 4 with 1680.00
AcesSki is at seat 5 with 1420.00
mutibike is at seat 6 with 2410.00
juanpok is at seat 7 with 1500.00
Boergster is at seat 8 with 1500.00
miquelob is at seat 9 with 1240.00
ugo2 is at seat 10 with 820.00

AcesSki posts the large blind 20.00
boombap posts the small blind 10.00

boombap: --, --
AcesSki: --, --
mutibike: --, --
juanpok: --, --
Boergster: --, --
miquelob: --, --
ugo2: --, --
kt1974: --, --
surferiop: Jd, Kd
gommster: --, --

Pre-flop:

mutibike: Call 20.00
juanpok: Fold
Boergster: Fold
miquelob: Call 20.00
ugo2: Call 20.00
kt1974: Call 20.00
surferiop: Call 20.00
gommster: Fold
boombap: Call 20.00
AcesSki: Check

Flop (Board: Kc, 5c, Kh):

boombap: Check
AcesSki: Bet 100.00
mutibike: Call 100.00
miquelob: Fold
ugo2: Fold
kt1974: Fold
surferiop: Raise 400.00
boombap: Fold
AcesSki: Fold
mutibike: Fold

surferiop wins the pot of 440.00 by default

That can be a tricky one.

Two options

1) raise as you did and take the safe route

2) call and hope for action on the turn


Option 1) gives you a small pot most of the time and only occassionally builds a bigger one.

Option 2) doesn't give the game away about your hand but gives the other guys the potential to improve and beat you (the flush being the most worrying). There is however a lot more likelihood of getting more action on the turn and building bigger pot.


It's a question of what you are trying to achieve and at various points in a tourney and with different size stacks I'd play it both ways. Early on like this situation when doubling up can be a huge advantage, I'd call the flop bets and take a small chance in order to potentially win a large pot.