Morning all, wanted people"s thoughts on a big hand I made a right pig"s ear of in last Thursday"s MTT at Dusk Till Dawn.
I"m not great at recalling the exact detail of hands I"ve played (one of the many reasons I"m a fairly mediocre poker player!), but here goes:
We"re at level 4, blinds 100/200, and I"ve recently tripled up to around 12k in chips from starting stack of 4k. It"s a full 9-player table
UTG - with similar stack size to me - raises to 600. He"s been moderately aggressive, but doesn"t appear to have done anything particularly out of line. I have JJ in the SB - a hand that always gives me trouble. Put him on a genuine premium hand and elect just to call (my first mistake?) as does the BB.
Flop comes all undercard rags with a couple of hearts. Concerned that UTG might have a bigger pair than me, I decide to put out a feeler bet of around 2/3 of the pot. BB folds, UTG makes suspiciously small raise, just more than double my bet (from memory, I think I bet 1,200 and he raised to 2,600). Having now convinced myself he has a bigger pocket pair, I still decide to flat call (again, is this wrong?).
Turn produces another low card, but a 3rd Heart. Decide to have another pop, representing strength (a flopped set or flush; don"t think he"d put me on an overpair) and bet around half the pot - about 3,500. He flat calls. Now - to be honest - I feel quite lost, but still feel he has a bigger pair that he doesn"t want to fold, but is afraid to push with due to fears I may have him beat with a flush or set.
River is a blank and - with around 6k left and the pot more than twice as big - I feel I should push, but instead check and - of course - he pushes. I think for an age before folding and he shows.....?
Any thoughts/advice?