WHW? My favorite new move! - The Answer

Well, this was a pretty easy one and some of you got it right away. It's the old check-TPTK-out-of-position-into-the-pre-flop-raiser, or as I like to call it CTPTPOOPITPFR:

FullTiltPoker Game #5997817892: $28,000 Guarantee (45001765), Table 131 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:06:57 ET - 2008/04/11
Seat 1: Ex_Corpse (2,985)
Seat 2: donkeyherder1 (2,895)
Seat 3: MasterCraft205 (2,955)
Seat 4: busttout (2,650)
Seat 5: ClawDad (3,830)
Seat 6: math-head (2,970)
Seat 7: tweeddeluxe (2,970)
Seat 8: Kajagugu (2,655)
Seat 9: IzzyMandelbaum (3,090)
math-head posts the small blind of 15
tweeddeluxe posts the big blind of 30
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Kajagugu [As Qc]
Kajagugu raises to 105
IzzyMandelbaum folds
Ex_Corpse folds
donkeyherder1 has 15 seconds left to act
donkeyherder1 folds
MasterCraft205 has 15 seconds left to act
MasterCraft205 folds
busttout raises to 360
ClawDad folds
math-head folds
tweeddeluxe folds
Kajagugu calls 255
*** FLOP *** [4c 3s Qh]
Kajagugu checks
busttout bets 388
Kajagugu calls 388
*** TURN *** [4c 3s Qh] [8d]
Kajagugu checks
busttout bets 450
Kajagugu raises to 1,907, and is all in
busttout has 15 seconds left to act
busttout has requested TIME
busttout calls 1,452, and is all in
Kajagugu shows [As Qc]
busttout shows [Ts Td]
Uncalled bet of 5 returned to Kajagugu
*** RIVER *** [4c 3s Qh 8d] [Kc]
Kajagugu shows a pair of Queens
busttout shows a pair of Tens
Kajagugu wins the pot (5,345) with a pair of Queens
busttout stands up



I love this play. It is so basic and yet so effective. I can't count the number of times I've pulled it off. Of course once in a while you will run into a flopped set or an overpair but it is more likely to work than not.

This was very early in the 28K, first or second blind level. I open-raise UTG and get re-raised by LP player. I have no idea what he's re-raising with but I don't think it's AA or KK. I figure it's a mid-pair that wants to eliminate the blinds and potentially get me to fold.

I call his re-raise knowing full well that I have to let the hand go if I miss. But the flop is B.E.A.Utiful. He does not have a set on this flop. And my check tells him I missed it. So he fires out a c-bet and I just call.

Then when the turn is an 8, I am ahead of everything I was before except for a pair of 8s. But if he hit his set he probably just checks behind. So I check and he can't resist but fire a second bullet. At this point I am almost certain that he either has AK (3 outs), KQ (3 outs), JJ-99 (2 outs).

So I check raise him all-in and he pauses to think about it a little and calls with second pair, drawing to two outs. Good thing he didn't have AK or KQ, huh?

Fairly simple, very straightforward, level-1 play that works a ton of times. Some of you will probably think that I am the donkey for raise-calling UTG with AQs and I will agree about 40% of the time. But early on in a deep stack MTT with 1500+ players I will take some cheap flops and see what happens.

Also, another variant of this play is to do the same in position after the pre-flop raiser check the Q-high flop. They just can't resist going for it on the turn.

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