How would you play it?

[XXIII]

You are in 5th postion of a 10 hand table. (1200 people left in the tournament, top 150 are in the money)

Your stack is at 7500 the blinds are 10-20

You are dealt 5h 5c

Everyone before you folds.

You raise it to 100

6th position folds

7th(6200) and 8th(4100) call

Everyone else folds out

Pot sits at 330

Flops comes: 5s Kh Kd

You are 1st to bet what do you do? And why?

 

[titans4ever]

I would smooth call and wait for raise and call after the flop to hide my strength.

I would do my move on the turn. You are hoping that someone has a K or will bluff that he has it. Hope for another smaller card on the turn. Scare card would be something over a 10 for them to hit a full house of Ks over x (you raised preflop so I would hope someone playing K5 would have folded preflop). If you get the little one I would turn aggressive and do a pot size bet to all in and try not to see the river and let them hit the card they need to beat you.

 

[xdmanx007]

DO NOT SLOW PLAY THIS HAND! Bet the pot if someone has the KING you are quite likely to get a reraise then you reraise him. DO NOT SLOW PLAY THIS ONE! The reason to not slow play it is because if somebody does have a king you are giving them a chance to pair their kicker which of course would send you home crying to your momma! Point is you most likely have the best hand right and you want to get as many chips in the as you can. NOW I must tell you if you lose this hand there will be 2 reasons why. 1st reason you way overbet a small pair with extrememly small blinds, one mistake already made. 2nd reason is if you do slow play it your opponent has a few outs to beat you most likely! So now that the cards are out play it aggressively!

 

[F Paulsson]

... and furthermore, your pre-flop raise means that if they do NOT have kings your only way of getting paid of is to make them believe you're stealing. A slowplay here would scare them way more than a raise on the flop.

I'd raise on the flop. Maybe half the pot. If you get re-raised, you're up against a king. At that point I'd consider going all-in.

 

[t1riel]

I would bet pot limit. True, you have a full house and nobody will see it coming but it anyone has a king you are in trouble and you have to pray for the fourth five. If you raise pot limit, you get a sense of what the other players have. The players then would have to decide right there. If they decide to call, they would have to stick with their hand. Unless they have pocket pairs or a king, they SHOULD fold unless they falsely judge that your bluffing. If one player goes all-in, chances are the player has the King(I would if I was in that situation). I would fold at that point. If the player simply calls, then it depends what the next two cards are. Chances are you are in good shape.

 

[XXIII]

I would bet pot limit. True, you have a full house and nobody will see it coming but it anyone has a king you are in trouble and you have to pray for the fourth five. If you raise pot limit, you get a sense of what the other players have. The players then would have to decide right there. If they decide to call, they would have to stick with their hand. Unless they have pocket pairs or a king, they SHOULD fold unless they falsely judge that your bluffing. If one player goes all-in, chances are the player has the King(I would if I was in that situation). I would fold at that point. If the player simply calls, then it depends what the next two cards are. Chances are you are in good shape.

So you would fold a full house to 3 kings?

 

[DESSERTLADY]

This was kind of a toss up question for me. I myself was on the fence about either slow playing it or going ahead and raising it. I voted raising it due to many times when I have slowed played a hand too much it comes back to bite me in the butt.
More I think about it I would for sure raise it because if someone else had a K X, there are still 2 more cards to come and you could very well be beaten by a higher full house or even to the extreme 4 of a Kind.