7th hand of 45 man - 5 table tournament

[ND1991]

Blinds are 10/20. 7th hand of tournament, hard to have reads. Suspect BB is loose, likes to play pots and will defend.

SB has 1450 chips.
BB has 1640 chips.
S3 - S8 all fold.
Button (ME) have 1420 chips and 7K.

Want to test theory on BB, so raise to 80.
SB folds and BB calls as suspected. He took a while and has already been all-in twice in first 6 hands so I put him on two middle type cards at best.

A 5 K

He bets 100 at 670 pot. I do not believe him and I raise to 400. He pushes.

What do you think? What do you do? I just KNOW my king is good.

I call and pot is 2850. He flips up....... 63. So my read on him being pretty much full of ^&*% was dead on.

Turn and River -- T 9.

So curious thoughts -- good play? bad play?

[NoWuckingFurries]

I wouldn't have played K7 in the first place, I would have folded.

[Phunkphlex]

I would say that you're very lucky your instincts were correct. I'm not sure risking your tournament life on second pair THAT early in the tournament is such a wise idea, but I guess it worked out. Keep this in mind though: there was only about a 60-65% chance that your hand was going to hold up in that scenario. And honestly, that was about the BEST case scenario you could hope for there, in case your instincts were off. Is it worth risking your tournament life on those odds? I would suggest using the first few rounds to store up info on that particularly player and wait for a better opportunity to strike later on in the tournament.

[pirates831]

fold preflop. i've never been a big believer of raising on the button because you are on the button. you are raising to win 30 here ... think about that. then fold.