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Give me a better line
NL 400 9 handed I have been playing 6max almost exclusively for the last few months so i am "transitioning" back to some full ring play. On to the hand:
I open with black kings from UTG for 16, villain (550) makes it 38, folded back to me I make it 130, he calls. I have about 500 to start the hand. Flop: 2 4 10 with two clubs. The pot is 286, I have 360 and push. Didn't like it as soon as I did it. Thoughts? *edit* No notes on villain, no pokertracker, and he is in MP. |
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Re: Give me a better line
any reads on this guy?
he have position on you? (cant tell if he's sb/bb) |
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Re: Give me a better line
Actually, I like it. The only thing you are behind right now is AA and TT. Any reasonable bet you make (1/2-full pot) is going to leave you pot-committed on the turn anyway. Checking looks like a missed AK, and villain's going to bet strong and you have to call - leaving you pot-committed on the turn again.
So any way you play this, all you're chips are going into the center on the turn. If that's the case, you may as well push now. If your stack was deeper you'd have more options, but as it is you're pretty much stuck. |
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Re: Give me a better line
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Actually, I like it. The only thing you are behind right now is AA and TT. Any reasonable bet you make (1/2-full pot) is going to leave you pot-committed on the turn anyway. Checking looks like a missed AK, and villain's going to bet strong and you have to call - leaving you pot-committed on the turn again. [/ QUOTE ] Do you think that it's a bad thing when villain puts you on missed AK? [ QUOTE ] So any way you play this, all you're chips are going into the center on the turn. If that's the case, you may as well push now. [/ QUOTE ] This also makes no sense. |
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Re: Give me a better line
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[ QUOTE ] Actually, I like it. The only thing you are behind right now is AA and TT. Any reasonable bet you make (1/2-full pot) is going to leave you pot-committed on the turn anyway. Checking looks like a missed AK, and villain's going to bet strong and you have to call - leaving you pot-committed on the turn again. [/ QUOTE ] Do you think that it's a bad thing when villain puts you on missed AK? [/ QUOTE ] In this case it's neither good, nor bad. My point is that checking is likely to produce the same result as betting out. If that's the case then betting is the better choice. [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] So any way you play this, all you're chips are going into the center on the turn. If that's the case, you may as well push now. [/ QUOTE ] This also makes no sense. [/ QUOTE ] It makes a great deal of sense. If you know that all of your chips are going into the center by the end of the hand then pushing on the flop has three benefits: 1) It adds at least SOME fold equity - maybe only a token amount, and maybe a lot - but at least some. 2) It eliminates any implied odds your opponent may be counting on to complete his draw. 3) It prevents you from making a mistake by second guessing yourself on later streets. |
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Re: Give me a better line
c/r a-i
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Re: Give me a better line
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c/r a-i [/ QUOTE ] With hero being short-stacked in relation to the pot, would this actually accomplish anything that open-pushing wouldn't do? |
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Re: Give me a better line
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[ QUOTE ] c/r a-i [/ QUOTE ] With hero being short-stacked in relation to the pot, would this actually accomplish anything that open-pushing wouldn't do? [/ QUOTE ] Gives villain a chance to bet with AK or a worse made hand. |
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Gives villain a chance to bet with AK or a worse made hand. [/ QUOTE ] Is it even likely at all for villain to have AK? I'm mucking AKs to a 3-bet... |
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Re: Give me a better line
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[ QUOTE ] Gives villain a chance to bet with AK or a worse made hand. [/ QUOTE ] Is it even likely at all for villain to have AK? I'm mucking AKs to a 3-bet... [/ QUOTE ] Maybe villain isn't as good as you are? If villain is good, he can't be thinking of playing pairs for set value, as Hero did a good job of cutting down the odds for villain to flop a set. If villain made it to the flop with AK/JJ/QQ/worse pair - he must think his hand is best (or he can steal) on this tame flop. I believe we can reinforce villain's thoughts by checking instead of pushing and giving him the tough decision. FWIW I think villain has AA a big percentage of the time here, so IMO we need to maximize the return on non-AA holdings. I believe check raising does this. KoW |
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