Top 2 on 3 flush board

thesharpie · #1 04-01-2005, 09:07 PM

Paradise Poker 0.25/0.50 Hold'em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is Button with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. MP2 posts a blind of $0.25.
1 fold, car$ha.y.n. raises, 2 folds, MP2 (poster) calls, 1 fold, CO calls, Hero calls, 2 folds.

Flop: (9.40 SB) A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (4 players)
car$ha.y.n. bets, MP2 calls, CO calls, ($0.50)car$ha.y.n. folds, MP2 calls, CO calls.

Turn: (7.20 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (3 players)
MP2 checks, CO checks, Hero bets, MP2 calls, CO calls.

River: (10.20 BB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (3 players)
MP2 checks, CO bets, Hero calls, MP2 folds.

Final Pot: 12.20 BB

Sorry for posting UTG+1's name, it's something to do with the converter and the $ used in variables is my guess. I think I should've raise preflop as UTG+1 is LAG. Does the rest look ok?

Kumubou · #2 04-01-2005, 09:41 PM

Gah, don't cold-call this. I would automatically three-bet this pre-flop unless I knew the raiser was tight, in which case I turbo-muck it. There is no reason to cold-call here. If your read on UTG+1 is correct, that is all the more reason to be three-betting this.

The hand history went haywire on the flop -- it looked like you raised, since everyone is calling twice and El Laggo got peaced out of the hand. Raising here is the correct thing to do regardless -- oftentimes scary boards for you are scary for everyone else; if you have a decent hand (and you do), get aggro until someone gives you a reason otherwise.

Random river bets like the one the CO made make me want to kill small animials. You have to call this though, people definately get cute enough to bluff the river (or get aggro with their lower two pair) to make a call profitable. I have half a thought to raise the river, considering the only things that beat you are either a rivered straight with 45 (and he's a donk), a random set (and he's still a donk, regardless of the made set) or this is the world's slowest played made flush (and he's still a donk). Then again, the hands someone would even bother sticking around with and wake up on the river (A7, Q7, both with one diamond) are equally unlikely, so who knows.

-K

toss · #3 04-01-2005, 09:44 PM

Yep 3-bet this against the LAG. I would probably call villain's bet on the flop and raise on a safe turn.