There were two hands tonight that I wasn't totally sure about, so I figured I'd post them. My live games play ultra deep (which I'm sure is standard for most live games), so these situations are pretty odd since they occur quite rarely in an online setting. Would appreciate some thoughts on how I played the hands.
$ amounts may be a little off since I'm not playing in a USD game, but w/e, it's close enough.
H1
~$2/3, $6 straddle
UTG +1 limps (~$1k stack), UTG +2 calls limps behind (~$1500 stack),
Hero raises to ~$30 w/ A
J
(covers both villains), it's folded back to the limpers and they both call
Flop ($101): J
6
3
UTG +1 checks,
UTG +2 bets $40, Hero calls, UTG +1 calls
Turn ($221): A
UTG +1 checks, UTG +2 bets $80, Hero calls, UTG +1 calls
River (~$461): K
UTG +1 checks, UTG +2 bets $200, Hero calls, UTG +1 folds
UTG +2 shows A
3
, Hero wins the ~$861 pot
H2
~$2/3
it's folded to
CO who makes it $15, BTN folds,
SB 3bets to $40 (this guy was UTG +2 in H1, ~$1100 stack),
Hero (BB) c4bets to $110 w/ K
K
(still covers everyone), CO folds and SB flats.
Flop ($235): 9
6
3
SB checks,
Hero bets $85, SB calls
Turn ($405): 10
SB checks, Hero checks
River ($405): 10
SB bets $200, Hero calls
SB mucks his hand and goes: "you win, I've got nothing", Hero wins the $805 pot
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H1 thoughts
I guess this is the most non-standard hand since I never raised at any point. While I was in the hand I just couldn't think of any hands that would continue vs my exact hand since I block everything; any sort of continuing range that these two villains are gonna have vs a turn raise will contain hands that have me beat a big % of the time. It felt a bit meh since UTG +2 ended up having A3 that he chose to lead the flop with for some reason, but I'd assume that my play is at least ok.
Raising river doesn't really seem like a super attractive option either because of ^, but yeah, to elaborate a little bit: 1. we're still 3-way here, and there's also a pretty big chance that they'd end up shoving hands that I'd want them to just call my raise with (their wide ranges may contain some worse two-pair hands, and in their eyes those hands would be the super nuts and they'd prob happily shove over a small raise for a billion bbs).
But yeah, a bit tl;dr, I guess you could just say 'lol you're playing vs huge whales, stop over-analyzing and just raise/try to get as much money in as possible OTT'. I'm very theory-oriented in these spots and I keep thinking quite a lot about which hands are reasonable to have in my get-in-438974283478374 bbs range - even vs whales.
H2 thoughts
Looking back at the hand I'm pretty happy with how I played it. Sure, there are ways to squeeze more $ out of villain's range (not vs his exact hand though since he had absolutely nothing), but playing this deep I'd rather not put myself in a terrible spot vs a x/r OTT this deep on this board texture. Vs a more passive villain I'd take a different line at a higher frequency, but this villain had been x/raising quite a bit with weird merged hands throughout the night.
Last edited by AlwaysMars; 04-08-2017 at 10:47 PM.