Another series of tournaments on Stars, another couple of interesting hands to show. They are from the same tournament this time, a sit ‘n go with 90 players in which I succeeded to cash in 11th place. Pity though I missed the final table.

The first hand of intrest is a hand where my opponent, who was playing very loose passive and was calling a lot of hands down to the river, decided to float again on the flop:

I see him calling again in early position and with this kinda hand (JQ suited) I decide to put in a little raise, knowing I can at least against this guy build a big pot if I hit the right flop. Flop is huge, as I flop a flushdraw with two overcards. He calls my continuation bet, he could hold everything. I don’t worry about that fact anymore after I turn the flush and I check behind. Of course there’s the risk of him holding a higher diamond and getting there with a four card flush on the board, or the risk of pairing the board, but I take this risk to let him catch up with something that doesn’t beat my hand and getting paid maximally. That’s exactly what happens and I get the maximum value out of it.

One blind level later, I win another important pot:

A standard raise and call in front of me and I decide I don’t want to play this hand out of position on the flop. I maybe expected one caller with a hand like AQ but both players call. I have to dodge a lot of cards after the flop, but luckily my hand holds up. Again I get the maximum value out of it: AQ would never have called another bet on the flop. I’m planning to play some more tournaments on Stars the next few days (the traffic is so awesome!), see you next time!