Bubble Hand: Trip deuces on non-threatening board, River play?
 

44 left, top 40 get paid. New table no reads. I just laid down AK to a large reraise preflop, I showed villain showed KK, I'd like to believe that would help engender a tight image, but this is a 5 dollar multi.

No reads on villain, his quick call of my turn check-raise had me worried a great deal. Critique on all streets appreciated but I am most perplexed as to what to do on the river.

Hand #8138283-144 at Sat2pmB-010 (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
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Started at 03/Sep/05 16:17:54

getoutdoors7 is at seat 0 with 24100.
beauno2 is at seat 1 with 6095.
Stymie is at seat 2 with 14185.
psyclops21 is at seat 3 with 6965.
behemoth00 is at seat 4 with 9640.
Blind_Pig is at seat 6 with 6040.
Quarkncover is at seat 7 with 9585.
Sozurmama is at seat 8 with 3185.
Tripods is at seat 9 with 17530.
The button is at seat 3.

getoutdoors7 posts ante (50).
beauno2 posts ante (50).
Stymie posts ante (50).
psyclops21 posts ante (50).
behemoth00 posts ante (50).
Blind_Pig posts ante (50).
Quarkncover posts ante (50).
Sozurmama posts ante (50).
Tripods posts ante (50).
Blind_Pig posts the small blind of 200.
QuarknCover posts the big blind of 400.

getoutdoors7: -- --
beauno2: -- --
Stymie: -- --
psyclops21: -- --
behemoth00: -- --
Blind_Pig: -- --
QuarknCover: 2c Kd
Sozurmama: -- --
Tripods: -- --

Pre-flop:

Sozurmama folds. Tripods folds. getoutdoors7 folds.
beauno2 folds. Stymie calls. psyclops21 calls.
behemoth00 folds. Blind_Pig calls. QuarknCover
checks.

Flop (board: 2h Td 2s):

Blind_Pig checks. QuarknCover checks. Stymie bets
400. psyclops21 calls. Blind_Pig folds.
QuarknCover calls.

Turn (board: 2h Td 2s 6d):

QuarknCover checks. Stymie bets 400. psyclops21
calls. QuarknCover raises to 2200. Stymie folds.
psyclops21 calls.

River (board: 2h Td 2s 6d 4c):

Quarkncover????

Re: Bubble Hand: Trip deuces on non-threatening board, River play?
 

If you just layed down AK preflop and villain in this hand saw it and villain is aggressive at all then I'd check the river hoping that villain sees it as weakness and bluffs into you. If villain is pretty passive then just value bet the river.

Re: Bubble Hand: Trip deuces on non-threatening board, River play?
 

I'm curious as to what you put villain on here.

Re: Bubble Hand: Trip deuces on non-threatening board, River play?
 

bet 3k for value?

Re: Bubble Hand: Trip deuces on non-threatening board, River play?
 

Hmm, im guessing either two high diamonds since he is just calling hoping to hit one of them or the draw. Maybe even A10 but I highly doubt that. He would have raised then. Value bet the river so he calls you with his busted draw. That's what I would do.

Re: Bubble Hand: Trip deuces on non-threatening board, River play?
 

if my math is correct:

Pot's about 8k right now, Villain has already invested 3k and has 4k behind.

Problem is in the $5s, it's so hard to put an opponent on a hand because he could anything. Flush draw, AT-QT, 99-77 (I gotta think villain raises JJ or better here PF).

So I would treat it as though I had the best hand. Problem is, how do you get the rest of his chips? If he has a moderate made hand, you value bet; if he has a draw, you check to let him bluff.

I don't know... maybe a bet of 1500-2000? He'll almost certainly call with any made hand, and it may even entice him to come over the top to push you out. It's small enough that his stack isn't hopeless if he calls and is wrong.

Re: Bubble Hand: Trip deuces on non-threatening board, River play?
 

I'd like to make a small luring bet that he has to call just given the odds.. that way if he has anything he'll look you up.. and he could also go over the top..

Results
 

After the villain called my check-raise I was thinking I might be able to extract some value on the river from AT,KT type hands. But the way villain smooth-called on every street had me really worried, my read was either AdTd, A2 or TT or 66.

I value bet river for 2k, and he instapushed. I reluctantly called and he showed TT for the nuts. Squeeked into the money[img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]. In hindsight I think I might have led out on the flop or check-raised the flop to find out where I was at. Any comments on previous streets?

Thanks for all of the posts guys

Quarkncover

Re: Results
 

Seems like you where meant to get busted here.

Btw, the nuts here is pocket two's [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]