Live £60 MTT - Hand

I think KQo is an easy defend here. We're not happy about CO coming along, but we're calling 19k into a 110k pot and CO is unlikely to have AK.

KQo was up against the two best possible hands, got the best possible (realistic) board, and still would’ve folded the winner if CO plays his position correctly.

It is 20BB. Although it is 3 ways the pot is already way too large on the flop to give up this hand. 200k in the middle and you have 230k effective left.

I would guess you can even ship flop for value.

I would check shove the flop. They both have a little more than pot left. You can't let 2 players see 2 free cards.

I probably lead out the river but if I don't then I am pretty much always calling a bet. Especially a polarizing all in pot sized bet after under repping our hand.

In general here I would c/r all in on the flop. Villain can have AA/KK/AK but can also have a lot of other hands including PP's or air because the flop hit Villain's range and has no flush draws. Another reason I c/r jam is I don't like that CO called the flop bet because they can have straight draws/gutters or 2nd or 3rd pair.

I agree that check raising all in on the flop is probably the best way to play the hand. If it was heads up there would be more merit to calling and letting our opponent potentially bluff into us. Calling worked out this time though. I guess if I put 53 in his range and expect him to bluff into two players then I would play it just like you did.

Also: Just to clarify I said in my previous post that your hand is effectively a bluff catcher. I meant facing a shove on the river after a runout where a lot of other hands improved. On the flop our hand is better than a bluff catcher.