I had this hand come up in an online tourney recently and I think there are a few different ways to play it but here is how I played it with my reasoning:
$24 buy in multi with 750 people, down to about 100 and getting close to the money. my stack: ~12k, villain ~8k. 200/400 blinds w/ante 50
villain min raises from cutoff, button and SB fold, and I have Jd5d and call the 400, getting ~4 to 1.
Reasoning: Although this is a bad hand, I think its way too tight to fold here to a min raise. I think he probably doesn't have too strong of a hand based on position and the min raise is probably a steal attempt. Since he is in this position, I expect a continuation bet after the flop and Im planning on a check raise all in if I flop any sort of pair or draw.
Flop: J-10d-9
I check, villain bets 1600, I go all in, he calls and shows KQ.
Reasoning: I stuck with my preflop plan, but Should I have? This is a flop that hits a ton of hands. Many hands will have me beat and a lot of hands that don't are still very live. It is possible he folds Ax,Kx or any weird 2 card hand that doesnt hit this, but there are a lot more hands that made a draw or a pair or both.
How do you play this hand? I could see some support for folding preflop, if you think the hand is unplayable. If played, Do you just call the flop since the board is so coordinated and hope for a blank or help? (the turn was the 8d by the way) If you just call the flop, how do you play the turn w/ 5k pot and 6k more in his stack? Also does anyone lead at the flop? are you calling or folding to an all in? Im pretty sure if he just calls on the flop, you are getting it in on the turn with the 8d coming.
I think there are a lot of ways to play this hand and I want to know which is the best.