Online 3-6 versus potential steal attempt

I'm "hero", and defend against "nemesis's" open-steal attempt from late position. Wondering if I played this right! Should I have folded? I think it was either check-raise, or bet out on the flop, or check-fold. Check-calling is wrong. Once I decided to check-raise, I have to call his re-raise. Was his re-raise correct? He should have folded! Then I check the turn, and he bets again! Very brave of him, was my call correct? He seems to be a decent player, aggressive, most likely capable of stealing. I've seen him reraise an open-raise from late position preflop a few times, and he's won a few hands without showing down. Thanks!


- Tony


Game #00000000 - $3/$6 Texas Hold'em - 2002/06/26-00:00:00 (CST)

Table "Eleuthera" (real money) -- Seat 7 is the button

Seat 1: Player1 ($115 in chips)

Seat 2: Player2 ($234 in chips)

Seat 3: Player3 ($297.50 in chips)

Seat 4: Player4 ($77 in chips)

Seat 6: Player6 ($18 in chips)

Seat 7: NEMESIS ($183 in chips)

Seat 8: Player8 ($120 in chips)

Seat 9: HERO ($318 in chips)

Seat 10: Player10 ($197 in chips)

Player1 said, "lol!"

Player8 : Post Small Blind ($1)

HERO : Post Big Blind ($3)

Dealing...

Dealt to HERO [ Td ]

Dealt to HERO [ Qd ]

Player10: Fold

Player1: Fold

Player2 : Fold

Player3: Fold

Player4: Fold

Player6 : Fold

NEMESIS: Raise ($6)

Player8 : Fold

HERO : Call ($3)

*** FLOP *** : [ Ac 9s Jh ]

HERO : Check

NEMESIS: Bet ($3)

HERO : Raise ($6)

NEMESIS: Raise ($6)

HERO : Call ($3)

*** TURN *** : [ Ac 9s Jh ] [ Qc ]

HERO : Check

NEMESIS: Bet ($6)

HERO : Call ($6)

*** RIVER *** : [ Ac 9s Jh Qc ] [ 3d ]

HERO : Check

NEMESIS: Check

*** SUMMARY ***

Pot: $41 | Rake: $2

Board: [ Ac 9s Jh Qc 3d ]

Player1 didn't bet (folded)

Player2 didn't bet (folded)

Player3 didn't bet (folded)

Player4 didn't bet (folded)

Player6 didn't bet (folded)

NEMESIS bet $21, collected $41, net +$20 (showed hand) [ Qs Ks ] (a pair

of queens)

Player8 lost $1 (folded)

HERO lost $21 (showed hand) [ Td Qd ] (a pair of queens)

Player10 didn't bet (folded)

You played it great. He made a terrible 3-bet on the flop. He will lose a lot of money to Ax if he keeps playing like this.


Don't worry about it, keep playing well.


Paul Talbot

Hi Paul,


I suspected didn't play it badly, just needed some assurance. /images/wink.gif I posted this after a horrible losing streak against three players playing like huge fish (down almost $200 within 1-2 hours at $3/$6). (Nemesis wasn't one of the fish). One fish busted out $150 or so, the other two went from $100 to $300+!


- Tony

$200 is a big loss but with 60 hands an hour on-line it will happen. You may have leaks, but they certainly were not in evidence in this particular hand. I'd check elsewhere. If your on-line site has play statistics (%time seeing the flop, etc) that would be a decent place to start.


Regards,


Paul Talbot

Yeah, Tony...or maybe buy one o' them fancy-schmancy hand history tracking programs!!! /images/smile.gif

You played it great.


Without question I agree


He made a terrible 3-bet on the flop. He will lose a lot of money to Ax if he keeps playing like this.


I dunno. If he thinks BB would 3-bet a good ace versus a potential steal that limits the likelyhood of A-x. Obviously he read BB for no ace.


In most cases he has 7 or 10 outs here (plus backdoor flush), so the bet isn't directly correct, but it may be correct for information and to allow a free card on the turn if wanted. Once the turn pairs him he is in to the river since he reads you for no ace.


Now, Buttons read of "no ace" might nave been questionable, but given that was his (correct) read, the other play was acceptable.


I think both played fine. Nemesis sure has some big...ummm...guts though.


Treefrog