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This could be interesting.

First round in a 3,000 chip, 45 person tourney. About four or five hands in, blinds are 25/50.

In the big blind, I'm dealt

One limper and the small blind calls too. I raise to 200. Limper calls, small blind folds.

Flop is

I raise 200. He re-raises to 400. I'm not seeing much to be worried about except the possibility of a flush/straight draw. I re-raise to 600 to see how serious he is. He calls.

Turn is

I raise 500 pretty quick. He calls instantly.

River is

Now there's the possibility of a flush or a straight (even a straight flush) and if he held PPs and made his set (like I was beginning to suspect) he won't have seen anything that scared him. I check, fully expecting to be pushed off. But he checks too.

What did he have?

I'll say he had two pair. Only because your last paragraph made it sound like he had a real junk hand.

3's and 7's
or
2's and 7's

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that would be hilarious if he caught running two pair holding 72 LOL

I have a feeling you got outkicked My guess is A 10 offsuit

im going to go out on a limb and say he had pocket 8s

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Wild guess... Pocket JJ's played pretty poorly.

All decent guesses.

Answer:

Boggles my mind. Not only did he put in almost half his stack on a flush draw (he put in 1,300 of a stack which had barely changed from the starting 3,000) but when he actually made the flush and I checked round to him, he checked too. I just don't get it.

And he'd spent most of the first 10 minutes bragging about his top 10 finish at a £100 buy-in cash game the night before...

its the check on the end that makes no sense to me!

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I think the check on the end shows the weakness of hitting the flush with low suited connectors. Its to weak to really bet and you can't call a reraise of any size so check is the safest play here to avoid the trap or bluff play.