Today I want to return to the $5,000 buy-in World Series of Poker no-limit hold’em event from last summer and share another interesting hand from a little later in the tournament.
The blinds were 400/800 with a 100 ante, and a player with about 45,000 in his stack raised to 2,000 from the cutoff. I was next to act on the button where I’d been dealt , and with about 80,000 to start the hand I three-bet to 4,800.
Against good, competent players, I think it makes sense to three-bet or fold small pocket pairs like this in spots like these.