a 10/20 hand

[James282]

Like some other posers, I am cutting my teeth in NL. I can't say I understand a lot of theory that goes into some of these high limit NL decisions, but so far I have won pretty solidly at 10/20 over 12k hands or so. Here's one that a NL friend of mine said I played poorly.

I open limp 7s 7c in late position, the cutoff overlimps, and the aggressive button raises to 120. Folded to me and I call. CO calls along. I have about 3000, CO 2200, button has 1900.

Flop is Ad 7d 2d. I bet the pot, CO folds, button now raises it to 1000, I go all in. Would you do anything differently?
-James

[mikech]

how late do you mean by late position, co-1? i probably raise 2/3rd of the time. otherwise i play it the same.

edit: just to be clear, by raise i mean openraise pf.

[lapoker17]

Against this opponent, I check/call flop. You said he is "aggressive" - I assume that to mean his range here is pretty large. While, we don't really care if he has AA, it's not that hard to believe he could have diamonds.

So, generally, when I'm OOP and flop a pretty big hand - like your set on a flush board, I really don't want to get blown off the hand - i want a cheaper opprtunity to fill up, so I check/call flop, probably check most turns and reevaluate.

[James282]

You aren't worried about giving away free cards to big diamond hands? The pot is already pretty big.
-James

[Rojosox]

I'd actually check raise this flop. I don't see you folding. But you could.... I don't like betting out at it. What if you get called and a 4th dia hits? Not exactly a fun scenario. Check-raise huge. Unless of course you have a read he has the flush. But even still you have 10 outs come the river. Up to you. - Jared

[mikech]

what happens if a diamond turns, check-fold?? i like the way james played it because he's now priced in even if button has two diamonds: for his 3bet-push he'll be getting 2700:1500 and he's 65:35 to win vs. a flush. otoh, if button has something like AxKd then james got his money all in there as a 70% fave and he won't have to worry about "reevaluating" an awful turn card.

[Lucky]

You played it fine. As you get more comfortable with NL, youll raise PF. Then the continuation bet. Then the Turn decision. For now, just take the NIT route. It's almost as profitable with much lower variable, and the LAGS will be runnin each other into your monsters.

[Ulysses]

In this game I like your line just fine.

[James282]

Yeah I thought this one was pretty standard. I want to get played back at by AXd or called down by AK or even KKd or QQd. In this particular hand he had Ah3h so He was in bad shape. Turn and river blanked and I won. Thanks for the input, sorry that this one was boring - hopefully I'll come across some more interesting ones for you.
-James

[fsuplayer]

i didnt reply to this bc it looked pretty standard and good, but i missed your open limp. raise before the flop.

i know you know this, but just a reminder [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]


heh, who thought id be telling you to be more aggressive pf?