Poker Stars, $5 Buy-in (30/60 blinds, 7 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.
Results: 3,695 pot
Final Board: 4 9 8 Q J
SB mucked and lost (-1,523 net)
Hero mucked J J and won 3,695 (2,172 net)
1) Not sure if I should bet flop after preflop aggressor checks with 1 player behind still? What hands fold/call/raises if I do bet? and what are we looking out for on turn if we get a call?
2) Turn: Got showdown and draw value that I'm not ready to give up on yet. Does the player behind affect this thought process?
3) River: I figure AQ could be in his range here. Really unsure of what else plays like this. KQ? AT surely bets at me. 88/99 surely doesn't 3bet pre and would bet flop if he does? What sizing should we be betting here, if we bet at all?
Haven't had a chance to really look it over but those were initial thoughts and gives me something I can post on here. Just not confident about decisions on all 4 streets really.
Last edited by JustinDMoney; 07-16-2017 at 02:00 PM.
You want to be betting flop when SB checks it to you to protect your hand from draws and over cards and also get value from one pair hands. On the the it is a standard call in this spot, you don't want to give up your hand just yet. River was played perfectly, you are trying to get a little bit of extra value from his AQs and KQs and some of this two pair hands.
Yeah I bet that flop too. SB basically tells you he has missed overs when he checks that flop and there are lots of turn cards that will make things difficult to play. The rest is good.
Overall, it seems you had a great plan for the hand. Very deep stacked you played a low variance approach and it worked out. As the others mentioned, I would bet flop but otherwise wp.
Yeah, pretty sure I nearly always bet the flop here. I think I was still having the preflop 'should I have 4bet?' discussion with myself. He quickly checked and wasn't really ready for it haha.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I'll run it through flopzilla tomorrow just to settle my mind on it.
Also doubt they can have KQ besides KQs I guess and and SB should be betting KQhh on flop. I also can't see KQ calling river, he'd want to not have KQhh or any heart so we can have missed hearts in our bluff range, he can't have KQdd so that leaves KQcc/KQss. I'd still bet river tho.