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Old 07-24-2012, 09:35 AM   #1
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AA blinds war

Villain is unknown 19/19 on 49hh. Can you find fold after shove on flop. His range is FD only. Sets and doppers will not shove i think.

    Poker Stars, $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
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    BTN: $48.75 (195 bb)
    Hero (SB): $26.73 (106.9 bb)
    BB: $37.50 (150 bb)
    UTG: $31.30 (125.2 bb)
    MP: $65.79 (263.2 bb)
    CO: $25 (100 bb)

    Preflop: Hero is SB with A A
    4 folds, Hero raises to $0.75, BB raises to $2.50, Hero raises to $6.25, BB calls $3.75

    Flop: ($12.50) 3 K 8 (2 players)
    Hero bets $6.20, BB raises to $31.25 and is all-in, Hero calls $14.28

    Turn: ($53.46) 3 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
    River: ($53.46) 5 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

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    Old 07-24-2012, 10:05 AM   #2
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    Re: AA blinds war

    I think it's pretty standard tbh
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    Old 07-24-2012, 10:22 AM   #3
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    Re: AA blinds war

    Wtf is this, stop being results-oriented.

    Last edited by Chloe O'Brian; 07-24-2012 at 10:22 AM. Reason: you played it absolutely fine + so standard
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    Old 07-24-2012, 10:36 AM   #4
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    Re: AA blinds war

    You should cbet a bit smaller.
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    Old 07-24-2012, 10:42 AM   #5
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    Re: AA blinds war

    some players never get rid of their draws with top pair LOL
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    Old 07-24-2012, 10:58 AM   #6
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    Re: AA blinds war

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    You should cbet a bit smaller.
    Why so? To give villain an illusion of fold equity?

    This bet leaves us $14.28 to shove into a $24.90 pot on the turn if villain calls, which seems fine.
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    Old 07-24-2012, 11:19 AM   #7
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    Re: AA blinds war

    You got a ton of info on villain. Take a note on villain's actions and move on.
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    Old 07-24-2012, 11:50 AM   #8
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    Why so? To give villain an illusion of fold equity?

    This bet leaves us $14.28 to shove into a $24.90 pot on the turn if villain calls, which seems fine.
    The illusion of FE, yes. If villain hit a pair, the money is probably going in regardless. I want to maximize against air. Plus balance
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    Old 07-24-2012, 11:51 AM   #9
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    I think it's pretty standard tbh
    Well, the villain has only two choices: AK and KK. So, I'd call, but it's a thin call.
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    Old 07-24-2012, 11:57 AM   #10
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    Well, the villain has only two choices: AK and KK. So, I'd call, but it's a thin call.
    It's nowhere near thin. Folding is absurd. Villain could be shoving all kind of crap as a bluff and weak made hands for no other reason than to end the hand and go with it.
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    Old 07-24-2012, 12:36 PM   #11
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    Re: AA blinds war

    With all the hands lately where villain flats hero's 4bet, my head is starting to spin.

    I probably call this off too since even if villain has KK+, AKdd we still have the right odds I think, but in the back of my head I am thinking, "the 2+2 guys are going to say 'wtf? you only have 1 pair'" (Maybe that comment really only applies in a single raised pots where villain shoves so SPR is different though?).

    What are you really putting this guy on when he flats the 4bet then shoves this flop? Granted, it is BvB, but here I would be thinking KK+, AKdd. QQ-JJ might flat but probably not shoving this flop. I am interested in the "could be shoving all kinds of crap" type statements; as, versus an unknown, I struggle to apply that logic and assume they are not flatting a 4bet with junk. (I was very surprised to see what he actually had)
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    Re: AA blinds war

    ppl actually contemplating folding are out of their mind
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    Old 07-24-2012, 12:56 PM   #13
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    The hand played itself. Move on.
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    Old 07-24-2012, 12:58 PM   #14
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    Re: AA blinds war

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    With all the hands lately where villain flats hero's 4bet, my head is starting to spin.

    I probably call this off too since even if villain has KK+, AKdd we still have the right odds I think, but in the back of my head I am thinking, "the 2+2 guys are going to say 'wtf? you only have 1 pair'" (Maybe that comment really only applies in a single raised pots where villain shoves so SPR is different though?).

    What are you really putting this guy on when he flats the 4bet then shoves this flop? Granted, it is BvB, but here I would be thinking KK+, AKdd. QQ-JJ might flat but probably not shoving this flop. I am interested in the "could be shoving all kinds of crap" type statements; as, versus an unknown, I struggle to apply that logic and assume they are not flatting a 4bet with junk. (I was very surprised to see what he actually had)

    This is why you don't give incredibly tight ranges to unknowns. They are unknowns and they can have unknown hands
    It's important to apply this principle especially when SPR is low so that you are getting good odds and when the hands that beat you are few.
    In general people spazz more in reraised pots.


    Apart from your assumptions above one could assume that an unknown is mostly shoving AK KK pre. One could also assume he flats a set IP OTF. These assumptions might very well be wrong, but so could be your assumptions. And folding here even with way worse hands than we have is potentially a bigger mistake than calling because of the odds we are getting-


    You can't really put an unknown villain on specific few hands here.
    The most common hands I would expect are KQ KJ AQ, but he also can have any two cards in the deck. It's a question of frequencies.
    Hands that beat us are the three sets. While the PPs are more common hands to call preflop than Q9 for example, and possibly he is more likely to shove with 33 than Q9o on the flop when he has those hands, the deck contains so many more hands that don't hit the flop than those that hit it. So I wouldn't be surprised to see "random air" here.

    But I'd say decent big suited connectors with a flushdraw, KQ, KJ, AQ
    are the ones I most expect to see, followed by 8x and random air.
    KK 55 33 might come up time to time but less than 10% of the time.
    I expect him to be much more likely to shove KJ than any set. Sets flat and the combos that make them are a very small part of his preflop range anyway (again we don't know his preflop range, but whatever it is KK 55 88 don't make a major part of it).
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    Old 07-24-2012, 01:21 PM   #15
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    Re: AA blinds war

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    I probably call this off too since even if villain has KK+, AKdd we still have the right odds I think, but in the back of my head I am thinking, "the 2+2 guys are going to say 'wtf? you only have 1 pair'" (Maybe that comment really only applies in a single raised pots where villain shoves so SPR is different though?).
    Totally comfortable with stacking off with 1 pair here - it's a 4bet pot and the SPR makes all the difference. If villain was set-mining by putting in 1/4 of the effective stack preflop with 33 or 88, then power to him - hero will get his money back soon enough. The only hand we are worried about are the 3 combos of KK.

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    What are you really putting this guy on when he flats the 4bet then shoves this flop? Granted, it is BvB, but here I would be thinking KK+, AKdd. QQ-JJ might flat but probably not shoving this flop. I am interested in the "could be shoving all kinds of crap" type statements; as, versus an unknown, I struggle to apply that logic and assume they are not flatting a 4bet with junk. (I was very surprised to see what he actually had)
    BvB, I doubt villain flats a 4bet with AA or KK. Yeah, maybe hero is 4bet bluffing since it's BvB, but hero's not really deep enough to 4bet bluff and more likely has a hand he is willing to go with (though, as it turns out, this is undoubtedly giving this particular giving villain too much credit). However, since villain is in position, he might flat the 4bet with QQ-JJ, AKo, AKs and possibly even AQs-AJs. Since AK is definitely in his range (and villain should easily be stacking off with TPTK with this SPR), this is an easy call - there are 6 combos of AK left and only 3 combos of KK (if he even flats with KK in the first place). When you consider that villain could be doing this with with AdQd, maybe KdQd or AdJd, that's just gravy.
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