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KQ top-pair on the flop
Party Poker Pot-Limit Hold'em, $4 BB (9 handed)
saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font> MP2 <font color="#A500AF">(Villain)</font> ($570.1) Hero ($200) CO ($201.6) Button ($86.65) SB ($146) BB ($200) UTG ($200) UTG+1 ($334.1) MP1 ($454.3) Preflop: Hero is MP3 with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP2 <font color="#A500AF">(Villain)</font> calls $4, Hero calls $4, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, SB completes, BB checks. Flop: ($16) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font> SB checks, BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Villain bets $6</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $30</font>, SB folds, BB folds, Villain calls $24. Turn: ($76) A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Villain checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $73</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Villain raises to $175</font>, Hero ??? Villain was solid, 165 hands, VPIP 22, PF 8, AGG 3.5 Also, with only one limper and 2 off the button, would you raise this pre-flop? Why/why not? How about the play on the flop? |
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Re: KQ top-pair on the flop
My guess is A high flush draw. You're probably beat, get out of it.
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Re: KQ top-pair on the flop
Hero folds. I put villain on a set of sixes, not a draw, although it's possible. Regardless, there's no way you can profitably call this raise.
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Re: KQ top-pair on the flop
That's a very easy fold. I'm not even sure if I like betting that turn card. What are you ahead of here? With 22% VP$IP his most likely flush draw would be to the nuts, which gives him the better hand on the turn. If he called you on the flop with a made hand, you're probably behind. About all that you're ahead of here are hands like KJ and QhJh. While you don't want to give a free card to a draw, you can't try to protect your hand if you don't even know that you actually have the best hand. You don't want to play a big pot here. I would have raised less on the flop, and if I did bet the turn it would have been about 2/3 pot... enough to charge a draw, but not so much as to scare off worse made hands or to make me go broke if I'm behind.
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Re: KQ top-pair on the flop
I folded, but wasn't sure if it was weak or not, and I think you're right that I played it a little too agressively. I tend to bet the pot every time I bet. Looking back, I think that he probably was on the nut flush draw and threw out the $6 bet as a blocker. When the A came out and he checked it, I fixed it in my mind that he had a K with a weaker kicker.
What would you have raised to on the flop? $16 pot plus his $6 bet and my call would have been $28. |
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Re: KQ top-pair on the flop
[ QUOTE ]
That's a very easy fold. I'm not even sure if I like betting that turn card. What are you ahead of here? With 22% VP$IP his most likely flush draw would be to the nuts, which gives him the better hand on the turn. If he called you on the flop with a made hand, you're probably behind. About all that you're ahead of here are hands like KJ and QhJh. While you don't want to give a free card to a draw, you can't try to protect your hand if you don't even know that you actually have the best hand. You don't want to play a big pot here. I would have raised less on the flop, and if I did bet the turn it would have been about 2/3 pot... enough to charge a draw, but not so much as to scare off worse made hands or to make me go broke if I'm behind. [/ QUOTE ] This is v good. I would say roughly the same. Check that turn. I probably wouldn't even pay off most rivers. The flop raise is good. The turn bet suspect. I think he had a stronger hand then nut flush draw pairing ace, because it wouldn't make sense for him to C/R you there, as a very possible holding of yours is AK, and you're not folding in that spot. So I think he has a bigger hand. But that's not important. Easy fold once you've bet. |
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Re: KQ top-pair on the flop
I probably would have bet less on the turn, maybe $40-$50. Would that be wrong?
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