First off, I typically play the 3.40 sngs but decided for some reason to say fuck BR management and try a 6.50. This hand almost tilted me, but somehow I managed to scrape back and get 2nd in the tourney after being down to about 300 chips ()


PokerStars No Limit Hold-em Tourney ($6.00+$0.50), Big Blind is t100 (5 handed)
saw flop|saw showdown

UTG (t6295)
MP (t490)
Button (t835)
SB (t3750)
Hero (t2130)
Hero is BB with .
Pre-Flop:
3 folds, SB calls, Hero raises to t350, SB calls.
I probably should have raised more preflop...450?

Flop: (Pot=t700) (2 players)
SB bets t200, Hero raises to t600, SB calls.
TPTK, I figure he's a flush draw at this point, making an unprofitable call.

Turn: (Pot=t1900) (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t900, SB calls.
Gross. Board is getting more connected. I stuck with my instincts of a flush draw and bet again.

River: (Pot=t3700) (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.
Aside from another diamond, this is the last card I wanted to see. Regardless of what I put him on, the board sucks. I checked and got out of it without paying more.

Results below:
SB has 8s Jc, Two Pairs, Jacks and Eights
Hero has Ah Ks, A Pair of Kings
SB wins t3700 from pot.

So the donk rivered two pair. Frustrating that he called me on the flop with his bottom pair/backdoor straight draw. He made his open end on the turn, but his call still sucks imo. If he thinks he has 14 outs, that's fine, but I'd be discounting all diamonds from my outs if I was him. Who's to say, in his mind, that I didn't already have a flush (or at least a much stronger draw than him at the turn?)

Any thoughts?

the converter's messing with me, and for some reason I can't remember. For the sake of analysis, I'll edit it to say Ah because I don't recall having a nut flush draw. I'll check the HH when I get home to be positive. Should it have been autofold on the flop if I didn't have the Ad? I had villain pinned as a LAG/station type and figured if he flopped the flush, then nh. He didn't reraise me at any street, either.

I would have check/folded turn and river.