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hopefully this isnt too early to post results...and thanks to all for the replies. Seems based on the advice I was being greedy and try to keep him interested instead of betting the right amount and get paid right.So he flips over after i make the call and like I thought, he showed up queens and had made his set on the river, hence that sudden aggression.I have faced worse beats before but for some reason i couldnt get the hand out of my head for the next hour and i kept thinking back on how I c could have avoided getting burnt on that river.Just seems that even if I bet hard like suggested, he would only lay down the queens if he gave me credit for kings or aces since by my raise preflop i dont think he can assume i have 10s or less and the board is benign aside from the straight draw which would require me to have a 69 which wouldnt make sense either.So the take away i guess is the larger flop and turn bets, and maybe that would have gotten him to lay down the queens on the turn with a shove? or do you think he would have called me down anyway?

[1 2 Nl Cash Game, Full Table Mid Position]

After playing some a tournament at Caesars AC i made my way to the poker rtoom for some cash game action. I sat down with 300 and had built it to about 800. the only two other larger stack was immediately to my right with about 600, most other stacks were around 200-300 and a couple with 100 or so.A little background on the table, there have not been many huge raises, and have been a fair number of limped or only raised to $7 pots thus far. Villain is a very tight and seamingly disciplined older guy. He has soft raised to $6 on a number of hands before.Here goesUTG calls $2UTG+1 calls $2UTG+2 foldsMP (villain)makes it $6MP+1 foldsMP+2 (hero) raises it to $30 with KKFolded all around and the villain calls.Flop comes 10c 8s 7cVillain leads out with $15 betI raise to $40Villain thinks and then calls the $40Turn comes 2hVillain checksI bet $75He thinks for longer and calls againRiver comes QsVillain goes all in for $195.I began replaying the hand in my head and based on previous play and his bets I figure the river helped him and start thinkin he has made a set on the river. I ask him and he says yes, another player on the table says thats my uncle, trust me he isnt lying. I tank for abour 2 minutes and make the call.I will post results laterIn the meantime can anyone tell me any critique on how I played the hand and what it appears that he might have??Thanks.

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I don't know of a book specifically to help you with this, but posting hands like the one you mentioned will help. My analysis of that hand:You have a very awkward stack size. You have about 28 big blinds but antes are in play, so it really plays like you have 20 big blinds or so. If you do reraise (which you should) then I think a shove is best. Otherwise, your stack size is just too awkward after the flop, as you discovered. You yourself said that after he c/raised you on the flop that you thought you were behind but that you had to take the chance to catch up - which shows how poor of a spot you put yourself in with the small re-raise preflop.As played to the flop, I'm torn, but it might be because you included results. (For future hands, don't do that.) I find it very unlikely that a worse hand will call, although maybe something like AJ with the Ace of clubs would - but you're only very slightly ahead of that hand. I do think you could get a Queen with no club to fold, so a shove might be okay as a semibluff of sorts, but I think that's pretty thin. I think I just check the flop behind and fold the turn unimproved, since you still have a decent stack left.

thanks so much for the reply. Wish I took that hand down I could have really done some damage then. I will continue to post hands that some up and wont post the results next time. thanks again.

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Hey everyone, this is my first post on the website. This past weekend i played in my first live tournament at event#5 a the wsop circuit in atlantic city. The field was 451 and I placed 90th, money was 45 and better. I think i played really good poker most of the way, but i feel like my middle to late stage game has weakness in it. In the beginning I played cautious poker, managing pot size and eating up chips from players I felt were weak. I made good calls on bluffs and maximied payouts whereever I could. I had 53,000 in chips within the first 3 hours of play while the chip average was still 7,500. I ran into a couple coolers and was still around 40k at the dinner break when the chip average was around 13k. Once blinds were at 400/800 with 75 ante I felt like I started to leak chips and had a pocket pair get beat by a four flush on the board.I ended up getting eliminated on the following hand: I had pocket jacks in the cutoff with 22k in chips. the player two seats to the right of me raises to 2600 and I reraise to 7000(up until that point on the table most reraises on a raise have not been called). He calls and the flop comes KQ7 all clubs. I hold the jack of club and I put him on AK or AQ based on his previous play. he checks and I bet 5000, he quickly reraises all in. I didnt think he had a club and I figured considering the minimal amount of chips left(10k) I would call and hope for a J or club. I didnt hit and went out in 90th. I think the right move I should have done would have been to push instead of betting the 5k to try to get him off the hand.If anyone has any advise on how I should have played this better please help me learn. Also in general as I mentioned earlier I began leaking chips and quickly declined from a chip leader to an average stack once blinds got heavy. If anyone knows of a good book or site to learn better strategy for middle and late stage MTT live tournaments please let me know...I think if I work on that part of my game I can really made some money after some good reading and learning.THanks.