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strange AK hand
before I celebrate winning with AK I was hoping to get some input.
pretty loose table (well loose for stars at least...), vp$ip of around 35-40% PokerStars 1/2 Hold'em (10 handed) converter Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. MP3 posts a blind of $1. <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP1 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, SB calls, BB calls, MP1 calls. Flop: (9 SB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font> SB checks, BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, SB folds, BB folds, MP1 calls. pretty ragged flop, MP1 opening made me wonder, but rather than look a gift horse in the mouth I'm thinking a reraise should be able to narrow the field a bit. Turn: (6.50 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> MP1 checks, Hero checks. should I be betting this? I don't really have a hand yet, and for him to stick around I figure he either had a flush draw and is looking for a check raise, or he hit something on the flop. River: (6.50 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> MP1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, MP1 calls. and saved by the river [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Final Pot: 8.50 BB |
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Re: strange AK hand
Nice hand dude.
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Re: strange AK hand
reads????
[ QUOTE ] Turn: (6.50 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> MP1 checks, Hero checks. should I be betting this? [/ QUOTE ] i would. if he had, say, 55 you may take the pot right there. [ QUOTE ] and saved by the river [/ QUOTE ] were you really? |
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Re: strange AK hand
This is a good card to bet if you intend on calling one on the river. The villian will probably throw away a lot of hands that beat us if you take a stab at it. Of course if you plan on folding UI then it is okay.
Brad |
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Re: strange AK hand
You raised to get rid of who? Or for a free card?
Flush/OESD/TPTK are pretty much coming along for the ride at 10:2 or 5:1. Your reraise didn't do much, i think a call is better unless you wanted a free card. turn cool, free card and i probably wouldn't bet as i fear a C/R but i suppose you can bet and fold to one? Unless he's tricky/Read says otherwise? Basically i dont bet that. River.. lucky you [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] |
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Re: strange AK hand
[ QUOTE ]
before I celebrate winning with AK I was hoping to get some input. pretty loose table (well loose for stars at least...), vp$ip of around 35-40% PokerStars 1/2 Hold'em (10 handed) converter Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. MP3 posts a blind of $1. <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP1 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, SB calls, BB calls, MP1 calls. Flop: (9 SB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font> SB checks, BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, SB folds, BB folds, MP1 calls. pretty ragged flop, MP1 opening made me wonder, but rather than look a gift horse in the mouth I'm thinking a reraise should be able to narrow the field a bit. [/ QUOTE ] Why would you want to do that? Edit: This hand deserves the Overcard challenge link. |
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Re: strange AK hand
Let's just say for the sake of argument that the villian has T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] here (he flips his hand face up). We want to thin the field and race against that hand with a 9 SB overlay.
If the villian would never bet a draw here then yeah we should fold, but this flop has enough possibilities that a raise seems okay. Brad |
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Re: strange AK hand
This looks fine. Raising instead of calling on the flop is a better option even if you get 3-bet if you can get it heads-up. You have perfect relative position.
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Re: strange AK hand
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If the villian would never bet a draw here then yeah we should fold, but this flop has enough possibilities that a raise seems okay. [/ QUOTE ] If villain showed us Q8, would why would we fold getting 10-1? |
#10
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Re: strange AK hand
Well if the villian did show us Q8 we might want to call, but there are a few problems with just calling here.
1) Someone else might check/raise behind us. 2) The bettor will sometimes have us reverse dominated. If our AK is beat by the bettor, we have 6 outs in a best case scenario. 3) We will get calls behind us from hands that take away some of our equity. If someone has a flush draw for example we only have 4 outs at most. So if we give ourselves 4 outs on this board, we appear to be breaking about even on this call. The problem is that we don't which outs will give us a boss hand though. Sometimes we will nail and ace and lose but sometimes we will hit an ace and win. This is much different than a gutshot for example. Brad |
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