A hand from my first Party session

[WSOP Bound]

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Check/call the river. I may have slowed down on the turn. You need reads badly on the player. Against a slightly aggressive player, I wouldn't slow down until the river. Against a passive player I would call down after I was raised on the turn. A passive player probably has A5, maybe he was tricky and had AA.

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I agree that reads would be very helpful. Against a maniac I'm capping this all the way, against a rock I'm calling down. I tend to assume that unknowns are LPP until they prove otherwise since a majority of the players that I run into fall into this category. I play stars, not sure what the typical player is on Party. I seem to remember Empire being a bit more aggressive on average.


Okay, now for my thoughts on the hand:


My concern in this hand is that if we are playing an opponent that has better standards than "any two" we COULD be in deep trouble. This doesn't mean that I think that we certainly are, just that we do need to take into account the fact that it is a very real possiblity.


Flop: I assume I'm best and cap this every time, the only hands that beat us are A5 and AA. I expect this action from any strong ace, and feel confident that we are okay a vast majority of the time.

Turn: When villian raises I start to get worried because we led the turn after he capped. We have made it clear that we have a hand, and it should be fairly evident that we have the five. I now have to believe that he has the case 5 or AA a significant % of the time. So AA has us drawing to 1 out, but it is inconsitent with the PF action. In order for villian to have a 5 what hand range can we put him on? I see three reasonable hands that villian could have that contain a 5. These are A5s, 56s and 45s. Having both the A & 6 on the board certainly spells trouble here. Without having a read on villian I can't realy be sure what other hands to put in his range here, but an overplayed A or high PP is unlikely but possible. I can't be convinced that our hand is shot here, just thinking that there could be trouble ahead. I think this is the point where I decide to get to the SD as cheaply as possible. Simply put: I call the raise.

River: I think I check/call this river