109: Delayed Bluff Early: Rate My Play

[Degen]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

UTG+1 (t1000)
UTG+2 (t1000)
MP1 (t900)
MP2 (t1000)
MP3 (t1430)
CO (t785)
Hero (t1000)
SB (t985)
BB (t900)
UTG (t1000)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
UTG calls t15, 2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t15, 2 folds</font>, CO calls t15, Hero calls t15, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t87.50) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (6 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, MP1 checks, CO bets t50</font>, Hero calls t50, SB calls t50, BB folds, UTG folds, MP1 calls t50.

Turn: (t287.50) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (4 players)</font>
SB checks, MP1 checks, CO bets t50</font>, Hero calls t50, SB calls t50, MP1 folds.

River: (t437.50) T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (3 players)</font>
SB checks, CO checks, Hero bets t250</font>.

[J-Lo]

what the hell are u trying to represent? What do u put oponents on? any read?

i'm thinking about finally takin' the dive into the 109's-- but i gotta learn how to read hands better and get away from good hands when i know i'm beat... Does this look suicidal to anyone else?

[Degen]

i put the guy up front on a draw...most likely he has a 3...he missed

i put the CO on nothing much at all, he was betting weak all the way, possibly an underpair to the J

it was pretty obvious he didn't like his hand when he checked the river...

[Bonafone]

Well i put cutoff on a flush draw, ace with a pair on a flop or maybe 66-99. The sb could be on the flush draw, or a combo hand such as a 53, 43 or 23. So after the 2 river checks I like it.

Now a question. Were you bluffing at this pot anytime you were checked to, or only if certain cards fell. Also were you planing to reraise if sb or co led out on the river for another 50 or 100 bet?

[lastchance]

Bluffing into 6 players is dumb at any level. Against one person, this might work, but there's very, very little room for bluffing with so many people invested.

[Degen]

i was putting all my reads on betting sizes

i called the flop to see who else was coming along so i could take the pot away from CO's weak hand

i called the turn for the same reason, and the size of the turn bet was futher evidence that the CO was weak as hell

if CO bet weak again on river i was pushing...if he checked i was obviously going to bet

i didn't have a plan to bluff at the turn, i was actually going to fold to a large bet and i would not have bet if checked to me

[Degen]

uhh i bluffed at two people

[lastchance]

It's not the river play, it's the flop play. With 3 other people calling in the pot, it shouldn't be easy to knock them all out, should it?

[Degen]

i was the first to call the bet on the flop, i didn't know who was coming along

then two others came along...then on the turn i figured if any of them were strong they'd raise this bet (on the turn) and one called so he was obviously also very very weak, as he closed the turn action and would have raised if he had a hand

[lastchance]

True, but I just don't make that call on the flop with so many people left to act, all of whom could put in a raise or call here.