$Freeroll NL HE MTT: Was this the right play?

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Works for a freeroll. However, you should want to have weaker hands come along for the turn and the river rather than have them fold against your jam. Luckily for you the other player had KK and couldn't fold. However you would have also lost to a flush and, even if there was no flush (and no set of K), your two pair would have gotten counterfeited by the river. Sometimes, actually playing rather than just donk-jamming can help you get away with losing less.
 
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I don't like flat pre flop, but flop doesn't even have anything to say, right? If I folded this I could fold any two lol
 
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Preflop
I dont like calling here with JTo. Maybe I could get on board with it, if it was JTs, since suitedness gives more equity and playability. But even then its marginal, when UTG has made a large raise to more than 4BB. I would certainly also not 3-bet, so here I would just fold and not even worry about it.

Flop
Normally I would not bet full pot, but its a freeroll, and you are very deep, and for those reasons I dont mind it. Maybe you could even overbet, if you are going large? In NLH we are not limited to bet the size of the pot. UTG now check-jam, which is a little surpricing. But you only lose to sets, and you block 4 of the 9 possible combos. So its a trivial call, and I would not think to much about it, especially not in a freeroll.

Results
So he overplayed his KK but got there. Essentially just a bad beat story. The real study point here is preflop, where it seems like, you need to clean up and do some more folding.
 
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