$400 NL Hand with Interesting Stack Sizes Affecting Decisions

[Chris Dow]

No Reads, except that Villain who is betting the pot on turn and river is not a ridiculously bad player. I usually assume the short stacks are a little desperate.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (10 handed) converter

UTG+2 ($1548.85)
MP1 ($396)
MP2 ($90.4)
MP3 ($630.6)
CO ($200)
Button ($102)
SB ($366.05)
Hero ($510.75)
UTG ($170.5)
UTG+1 ($114.03)

Preflop: Hero is BB with T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. CO posts a blind of $4. SB posts a blind of $2.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to $10</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP2 calls $10, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, SB (poster) calls $8, Hero calls $6.

Flop: ($44) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, MP2 checks.

Turn: ($44) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets $40</font>, Hero calls $40, UTG+1 calls $40, MP2 folds.

River: ($164) A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets $160</font>, Hero ?

Comments?

[Jeff W]

Why did you go through all this trouble to convert a $200 NL hand to a $400 NL hand?

[Chris Dow]

Because no one in small stakes considered stack sizes, which motivated both my turn and river decisions. So, I was unsatisfied with the advice over there.

Edit: Check title of post.

[etizzle]

who cares about stack sizes. Are you saying you wanted UTG+1's dead money so you just flatcalled the turn? That's fine, but you may be giving SB (or UTG+1) a free look at a straight draw with KQ.


All that said, raise the turn. If you forget to do that, move in on the river.

[Chris Dow]

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who cares about stack sizes.

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Not me! I just blindly play my 2 cards with no consideration of how much money I have or my opponents have! After all I don't want to win money, I just want to make big hands like ten ten ten! Woohoo!

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[MikeL05]

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Why did you go through all this trouble to convert a $200 NL hand to a $400 NL hand?

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Posting $200 NL hands here is -EV.

And, for what it's worth... I don't understand the point of this post at all. Do you need help making a river decision? AJ is probably the only hand that you beat that would call your raise on the river. Though 66 and 77 is also quite possible.

[flawless_victory]

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AJ is probably the only hand that you beat that would call your raise on the river. Though 66 and 77 is also quite possible.

[/ QUOTE ]no. AJ,66,77 are his most probable hands. raise all in.

[fuzzbox]

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AJ is probably the only hand that you beat that would call your raise on the river. Though 66 and 77 is also quite possible.

[/ QUOTE ]no. AJ,66,77 are his most probable hands. raise all in.

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If he will play AJ from the SB for a raise, then why not 89 or KQ, hell JT !

K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], or any old 89 and JJ all seem like they could be out there.

Why does he only have 3 possible hands here ? Hell - he could have a whiffed heart draw given the action.