I think flop and turn calls are fine – no need for a raise in either spot.

Thinking about what kind of hands he triple barrels though, what hands are you going to get called with THAT YOU BEAT from raising the river? Are Jacks (ie. AJ) really triple barreling when the King hits? If he’s tripling a bluff like AQ, he’s folding to a raise anyway. Even for a hand that improved on the river like AK – it doesn’t really make sense for him to double barrel that turn card, as it’s just not a good card to double barrel (because the hands you’re calling the flop with probably aren’t going to fold to a bet on that turn card).

Sure, it’s a “cooler.” – Two pair vs. top set. However, I don’t think you should feel obligated to raise the river, just because I don’t see you getting called by many worse hands that are in the villain’s range that he’d be tripling with.

For how’d I’d play the hand, I’d probably fold or 3-bet though pre-flop. You can easily afford to play tighter when you’re 50 big blinds or so. Furthermore, K7s has potential in position, yes, but because how deep you are, you could easily find a fold, but if you do want to play it, I don’t think it’s decent or plays well enough (even in position) to just flat, I think, even with your deeptstack, as it can create many post-flop problems. 3bet or fold for me pre.

Foucault: I don’t think you can square that with the logic of “You can easily afford to play tighter when you’re 50 big blinds or so”.

I think for me, it’d come back to my post-flop play abilities here, which I admit, I’m still working on. That in combination with being somewhat deeperstacked here — I recently started going through the University videos and feverishly listening to the podcasts, and it sounds like the deeperstacked / early stages general consensus (maybe more towards 100bb+ or so) is that the deeper you are in tournaments, the tighter you can afford to play? 

Would you be calling here pre nearly 100% of the time? Ever 3-betting? Folding?

I’ll definitely add that video series up to my queue for the website, thx for the recommendation 🙂

MovieFX: I had a look at the hand again, I think that the stacks are to shallow to get much value out of raise-folding the river. I feel like if AJ is betting the river (however small – 1/3rd pot, whatever), he’s going to be folding almost to any size of raise. Too small and it’s going to look to suspiciously strong (like that K certainly hit you – maybe he’d make a crying call for a min-raise, tho, idk), and too large and it’s going to be committing too many of his chips to the pot I feel if he did want to call. For the wonky Jx two-pairs he could have, I don’t think he’d have those anywhere near as often as AJ to justify raising the river. Therefore, if V folds AJ to a raise almost always (however big or small), if villain would either have wonky Jx two-pair hands (albeit unlikely) or hands that beat you (trips, KJ), and in terms of combinatorics, I think the latter would justify raising here being a -EV play, unless you could possibly get him to call with AJ (only 9 combinations).