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Blinds are $1/$2

I get dealt K Qo

I raise to $5. Two callers

Flop is K Q 7, rainbow. Im first to act. So I raise to $15. One guy folds. He re-raises me to $30. I put it up to $45. He goes all in for around $170 total, I call.

I kind of thought he was on a straight draw, maybe an AK...

I show my K/Q two pair, he flips over K 10o. Im so happy when I see his hand.

Turn card is a 10. I dont like it but he has only two outs left assuming no one else folded them.

River is a 10 giving him the boat and I lose.


What did I do wrong? Should I not have re-raised his re-raise? Should I not have called his all in? Or did I play it somewhat correctly?

Ditto the previous posters. You got bad luck. To answer your questions specifically, no reraising with top two pair was exactly the right thing to do. Calling all in with the best hand was also the right call. Right now you are in pain from a bad beat. The tone of your questions reflect that. You seem to be asking yourself: when should I have folded? With top two pair that question should never even be near your mind.

That is how the hand turned out. However lets play some what if games with the way you played the flop.

The only thing I might have done differently in your position would have been to raise more. the 15 raise is giving the guy a 6 to1 on his money. If you put him on a straight draw the raise was way to small to scare him off. Also what were you trying to accomplish with the reraise? Value, Information, or Bluff. In your shoes Bluff was out. In the other two I don't like the small reraise. A raise of at least 1/2 or 3/4 of the pot would be in order. That would also have made the other guy sweat it out some more.

What kind of table image did you have? Did the other guy think that if he raised big you would have folded? Putting my self in the other guys mind the small raise might have signaled to me you were on a draw. Maybe AJ. so an AI might have gotten me the pot right then.

I hope that input helps. Nothing really cures a bad beat so take it is stride and keep on playing.

Best Regards,

VF-1