how to play it? 10/20NL shortahanded table
 

Playing in a 6 handed cash game table a hand came up which I am interested in hearing what people would do when faced with the situation


In the BB I receieve 8s9s. UTG calls and UTG+1 raises 4xBB 5th position reraises 10xBB infront and is called by the button. Small blind folds and I call. UTG folds as does UTG+1 killing the damn pot size.

I am absolutely sure both players are on pockets higher than jacks and not big slick or low pockets as they are players I know well and they have pretty telling betting patters.

The flop comes out 10s 7s 8h . It is up to you to act first, what do you do here knowing you are up against AA/KK, AA/QQ, KK/QQ?



Another lever to it, what if the turn is a blank A Q or K or a A Q K of spades. I would love some feedback on this as it was a very complicated hand IMO.

Re: how to play it? 10/20NL shortahanded table
 

how deep are the stacks? will they payoff if 6/9/J or spade hits?

Re: how to play it? 10/20NL shortahanded table
 

the stacks are very deep, I have about 10K and the other two are around 15K, they had been sitting a while and I had gone on a rush. And if they have even remote odds or have committed themselves at all they will get married to their high pockets, if not both at leats one.

Re: how to play it? 10/20NL shortahanded table
 

I would check/call any bet down to the river. Assuming they have big pairs, they'll call any push. You are a big favorite in the hand, but you still need to hit to win. You might put yoursef in a position to double up with a hit and not go broke without one.

Re: how to play it? 10/20NL shortahanded table
 

if you post this in high stakes NL you'll get better responses.

assuming the stacks aren't that deep i might just push and get the money in while you're a favorite, but i dunno much about high stakes NL, or how deep your stacks are

Re: how to play it? 10/20NL shortahanded table
 

You probably have the best hand (you're a dog to TT). I would play it that way. How would you play top (nut) set on a draw heavy board? Play this the same way. Check-raise, lead into the preflop raiser if you think they'll raise. Whatever game conditions prescribe. I doubt with those deep stack that anyone will be willing to stack-off with any hand except maybe TT or J9. Even AsKs has to be worried that their behind to a set. You did smooth-call preflop. If I had aces and got popped by you, my first thought would be a set.

Re: how to play it? 10/20NL shortahanded table
 

Fold preflop.

Check-raise all in postflop.

Worse case is they have AA-TT and you are still ahead of that range:

541,800 games 0.172 secs 3,149,999 games/sec

Board: Ts 7s 8h
Dead:

equity (%) win (%) / tie (%)

Hand 1: 23.1894 % [ 00.22 00.01 ] { AA-TT }
Hand 2: 23.1894 % [ 00.22 00.01 ] { AA-TT }
Hand 3: 53.6213 % [ 00.53 00.00 ] { 9s8s }