Think my first instinct was to call turn and then check call river. Another instinct I have is that this player is not a thinking player. I do feel alot of his range will be two pair hands, I feel his 3bet is too big to be str8 here on turn and on a blank river he will spew into our check which we can snap off.

I feel that the villian really likes his hand here and if we lead river he can easily shove on us and put us in an awkward spot. Much better option to check call a medium sized bet

Something I have heard bigdog advocat this early in a tourney when you do hit your set what's the point of not raising pre. You can let go of the hand on the flop when you don't hit but raising pre has already built a pot- cbetting a dryer flop might take down a smaller pot. You want to accumulate this early not take down smallish pots. Irresepective of the outcome of this particular hand. No?

Are we not raising pre simply because we want the blinds to come along? In my opinion that is a valid reason but just beause we are OOP is not sufficient of a reason considerng the blind levels.

Please feel free to let me know I am completely wrong on this.

THOUGHTS?

That is what I am suggesting – we're are in the first level of the tourney are we not? This deep I am okay not cbetting a flop and giving up 2 way 185 chip pot.

I understand this play might be considered exploitable – but at the stakes mentioned above does it really matter? In low to mid-stakes as suggested by Sheldon Adelstein and Vanessa Selbt on one of her podcasts; we should be playing an exploitable strategy such as this because over a large sample size we won't encounter someone that will be able to take advantage of this nearly enough.

bennymacca SAID:

i just hate these spots because if i raise i feel like i have to put in a cbet, and although we are deep and we aren't risking too much of our stack, it still becomes really tough to play OOP

I do feel like these spots are tougher mid to late stages – but at these blind levels I think we are deep enough to let it go.

What might be useful is to do the math with villains range being two broadways or two pair hands vs 88 with the flop coming:

K x Q where   x ≠ {8,10,J,Q,KA}

What pot odds do we need to call a flop bet vs. 1 opponent? I would do it but I am at work can anyone help me out?