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Originally Posted by jacket882
I was trying to be more aggro but I'm still not very good to pick up good spots for it:
No particular reads on villain - he raised almost every button 3x and also raised a couple of my limps. Post flop it was still quite early to get particular reads.
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BB: t1540 77 BBs
Hero (BTN/SB): t1460 73 BBs
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BTN/SB with K  J 
Hero raises to t60, BB calls t40
Flop: (t120) 8  T Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t60, BB calls t60
Turn: (t240) 2 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks
River: (t240) 7  (2 players)
BB bets t140, Hero raises to t360, BB raises to t1420 all in, Hero folds
I cbet bcos of the draw and he called me. At that point I thought he might be on a straight draw, when the spade came up on turn I checked behind but then thought he was betting some low pair Tx, 8x, 7x or a missed draw. Thought I might scare him off with a raise. Is this wrong? Even if not, is it too small?
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BTN/SB: t1920 96 BBs
Hero (BB): t1080 54 BBs
Pre Flop: (t30) Hero is BB with 9 8
BTN/SB raises to t60, Hero calls t40
Flop: (t120) 9 2 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t80, Hero raises to t220, BTN/SB calls t140
Turn: (t560) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets t800 all in, BTN/SB folds
does this one make any sense how I raised then jammed? |
Hand 1: Might be a good place to double barrel as a semi-bluff? It's a really wet board so maybe not, and we aren't even drawing to the nuts, and he probably calls the turn with any decent spade, and it's hard for him to not have a pair or a gutshot at least here... So actually I guess no, not a great place to double barrel.
Imo, just cbet flop, take the free turn card, and hope he checks the river so we can win a showdown with K high
I don't think the river raise is THAT bad, and villains will often stab here after you cbet and check the turn, so I think we can expect to take it away some percentage of the time. But it's just really easy for him to have a decent hand that he won't fold here, and I think that's what happened.
Hand 2: I think I like the flop check raise. We expect him to cbet a lot, but if he checks behind we don't mind all that much either. Not sure if check/call is better than check/raise.... When we raise, he may fold his overcards or mid/bottom pairs that we could get more value out of when he double barrels the turn.
I think shoving the turn is pretty horrendous. Unless he thinks we're an aggro monkey, he's never calling with less than a 9, and pretty much any 9 he calls with beats us. I think as played I lead the turn for a little over 1/2 pot.
I think my preferred line would be check/call flop, check/call turn, leading out river if he checked behind turn but check/calling if he bet it.
Maybe I'm losing value here, but I like taking a more passive line in a situation like this (oop, fairly strong made hand on a dry board). We save ourselves chips when we're way behind, and more importantly we get to see how he plays some hands - whether he double/triple barrels, etc.
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