Pocket Kings in the Cutoff Seat

[D-Nut]

Hand #3: (200-400-25 Level)

Player A is in cutoff (Stack size is roughly 24000)
Player B is in the BB (Stack size is roughly 11000)

Action folds to cutoff, Player A makes a raise to 1200 with . Folds to Player B in the BB, and calls. Two players. Flop comes J-9-5 rainbow. Player B checks, and Player A bets 2000. Player B shoves all-in for roughly 10K total. Player A snap calls. Showdown.

[Chipless Wonder]

This one's easy. Just fold the kings pre-flop.

Just fold kings

[Chipless Wonder]

In all seriousness, I like the play of the pokcet kings here. However, calling the all-in check-raise might be tough. I would hope he has A-J, Q-Q or 10-10. Depending on the history, he might not have anything at all, and just be tired of me raising and continuation betting his big blind. That's the situation I really hope that I've created.

But what if he has a small pocket pair, like 9-9 or 5-5? Then I'm toast with my kings. So I think this is a judgment call. It really just depends on previous things I've seen this player do, and he's seen me do. Has he seen me 'steal' his big blind a lot? Has he been check-raising, going all in and taking pots by brute force a lot? Has he shown any bluffs? What sort of hands has he shown down? Is he a winning player or a losing player?

[CW Buckeye]

I would think that player B has something like AJ. Hell, he could possibly have a draw, something like QT thinking that player A was making a standard continuation bet and could still fold.

I'm calling here with the KK. If I was outflopped, then that sucks, but I still have 13K to work with.

[cusecrusher]

I could be wrong Dave, but unless you wrote down the levels I think the story has a little inaccuracy. I was at Daves watching him and I am almost positive you raised in middle position to 700, because once it folded around to him in the BB he basically min raised you to 1500, once you flat called there was roughly 3k in the pot. He then shoved for 10k on the flop and you snap called.