Stars $22 180 man MTT, heads up A7

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t8000 (2 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

Button (t127918)
Hero (t142082)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
Button raises to t16000, Hero calls t8000.

Flop: (t24400) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t14000, Hero calls t14000.

Turn: (t52400) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t20000, Hero calls t20000.

River: (t92400) T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t45000, Hero ?.


I think my line could use some improvement. What line would you use? What do you put my opponent on?


Some background: This is exactly the 19th hand of heads up. He raised from sb to 18k on the 1st and 3rd hands of heads up (3/6k blinds). This was the first time, since then, that he had raised. Villain had only made multiple street bets once in our heads up history. I completed w/ 48o (3/6k blinds) from sb, on a 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] board, flop: check, check, turn: bet 8k, call 8k, river: bet 14k, call 14k, Villain showed Q5o.

I'd probably fold this preflop against the villain you described.

[schwza]

i think your line is fine.

i would not fold pre-flop. villain has raised 2/9 small blinds - he's not only raising AA.

[betgo]

I push preflop, even if villain is tight. There is too much in the pot to flat call with this hand.

If I push preflop, I'll always be a significant dog if he calls. What's your line, assuming you only call preflop.

Call or Fold to river bet?

Call, you really played it like you were on a draw, he made a real weak bet on the turn, bet bigger on the river becuase he wants you to fold. In the future you gotta cr the turn all in. top pair is huge HU especially when its aces.

[Pat Southern]

Checkraise allin on turn.

[Firefly]

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Checkraise allin on turn.

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I was thinking maybe I should've checkraised, as you suggested, on the turn. My opponent would probably check 1 pair hands on the river if he thought I was on a draw, and he would bet two pair hands or better and hands that made nothing. With a board of A-6-J-8-T, what unpaired/unmade hands does he hold on the river that he raised w/ preflop? Hands that completely missed this board are K9, K7, K5-2, Q7, Q5-2, 95-2, 75-2, 54-2. What hand do you put villain on that bets the river that I beat? Also note, if I call this and lose, I will be down to 45k. If my opponent loses, he will be down to 30k.