Fold pre, Fold Turn, and Fold River. This just seems so -EV to go after 10bb right here when you have 150bb. I assume this tournament is full of fishy players, who we can vlaue bet to death when we do hit our hands early in the tournament. If this guy is a competent player like you said, then he is just going to fold his air on the turn. If he had something like 33-55, 77-99 he would bet it on the flop, but if he didnt, then he would most likely fold to your check raise because he wouldn’t expect you to be bluffing here this early in a good structured tourney. He is definitely not going to float your turn c/r to bluff you on the river. We are just gift wrapping him chips. Since the board was 6622 it doesn’t matter what his kicker is so you will never be able to get him off a 6, but that would be suicide anyway. Let’s just save our chips for better spots. People are more than willing to spew off chips to us when we have the nuts, so let’s not return the favor. Sorry if this came off as strong, but we should never be involved in this spot EVER;)

The most important thing here is that you are not representing a 6, and in order for our bluffs to work they need to make sense and tell a story. To rep a 6, we would/should be leading turn, especially into 5 people, to build a pot. If we did have a 6, we lose all sorts of value by checking the turn. Discounting quads we have the nuts on this board, raising turn would also be losing us value, we fold out hands that we would want to keep putting money in the pot (small pairs and Ace high type hands).

JLUDEOBV said:

This is like a 5th level thinking play. I obv don't play this hand like this against a random… this guy is a well known live player and one of the best I've played with.

 

Then he's probably not being completely honest with you and revealing his hand when he stated he had an A, he was trying to level you and get you to stack off later IMO.

 

The other comments above I completely agree with, not enough in the pot to start getting too cute. Sure it's ok to play speculative hands early in a tournament when # of BBs dictate, but you need to know your position/stack size/& table images to make these moves. The question that he was probably asking himself was, “Why would he lead out with a hand as strong as he repping?” if he was a deeper thinking player (He thinks that I think that he thinks…)

Agree with coolers and tilted. Really through me off guard when he min-raised me on the river. Yeah I bluffed off 9k of my stack in a spot where most people probably would've folded pre… the point of this post was to point out the fact that I feel like you have to attempt bluffs like this in live tournaments in an attempt to chip up for the simple fact that we aren't going to be that deep for much longer. Next level is 200-400 then 300-600 then 400-800. Each level is 40 mins so in 2 hours (30 hands) we will have 40ish bb's. I played this tournament for 7 hours and saw JJ and AQs. Only other pocket pair was 33, no other good aces, and no broadway cards. I think our play in live tournaments definitely needs to open up in the early levels and play more pots when we are deep enough to do so. Some people think we should nit it up and there's no point to get involved. I completely disagree with this statement. We are better post flop players than most, so why not take advantage of that when we are deep enough? Pick good spots to chip and if you get caught like I did here, you are still plenty deep. Plays like this are going to work more often than not. 

Thanks for the feedback guys. Good luck at the tables.