2/5 1000 Max Buy-In, Maryland Live, around 11 p.m. on a Wednesday

Hero came to the table an hour ago with a Corona in hand. Have ran into Aces twice but just doubled up on a pretty ridiculous hand to get my stack to the initial $1k buy-in. I'm seen as the action spot at the table.

Villain has been quiet and has ~$800. Haven't seen him put any real money into a pot and don't have any hands of note. 40ish yr. old white guy.

Hero opens to $20 with TT from mid-position. Button and Villain (SB) calls.

Flop KT9

Villain Checks, Hero bets $50, button folds, Villain check-raises to $170. Action on us.

You're seen as the action, I like a jam. Getting value from all the draws and 2 pair hands, and decent equity against the few value hands that are better than yours


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Pre standard
Flop looks ok pretty easy call otf^ Mostly just calling down and praying for board to pair
Also you block 2p really hard and qjo is in there at like 100% for random fishregs at 2/5

Calling is not a real option. If you call the check raise, there is about $400 in the pot heading to the turn with villain having $600 left. He has a few QJ here and even less set of 99s but some Kx and many draws (flush, pair plus straight) also.

Too shallow to 4bet so I think I shove allin here.

Feel like this villain has QJ or hands like KdQd or 8c9c.

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Vs that range our hand wants to call
KQ is not calling a 3rd flop bet
Combo draws are either putting more money in on the turn or surrendering equity
QJ may do something other than stack us if they react to clubs or 4th strait card


Calling flop absent a read we don’t have
As said there’s all QJ combos.


Does anyone have deeper thoughts on approach the turn on the rare occasion it gets checked to us?

Vs x it’s an easy bet

With this being the first action that I've seen him make in nearly an hour and QJ being squarely in his pre-flop range, hero just calls to see what develops.

Turn 6:

Villain bets $290

Action on us

Pg- this is just a pure call down spot- you don’t really wanna be folding many( maybe 0) rivers either. Sometimes you just gotta lose that $. Maybe he’ll show up with a worse set or a rare k10/k9/109. But it’s such a massive exploit to fold this hand.
You obv have boat equity and he can be value betting worse a non 0 % of the time. He also can have some draws. He could have ak for all we know or aa or something. Hopefully you are rolled for the game and losing a stack here isn’t gonna crush the dream. Gl

Hero Calls.

River A

Villain checks, hero checks.

Guess the hand isn't as interesting as I thought.

And vs a check you have a mandatory bet. Checking back a set here is really nitty and loses out on a ton of ev. You’ll also wanna be doing some bluffing otr vs this line.
Take my advice w a grain of salt though since I have been losing for like a month straight

Flop is a call, turn is a call. Never raising any point, SB should have a lot of QJ if he is a fish it’s 80-100% freq 16 combos QJ.

River ap i want to shove but we arent deep enough, we are only shoving for 1/3 pot and i dont think he can fold QJ here esp with club blocker

Shoving flop is an option, but I like to call and keep his bluffs in. After he bets half his stack on the turn, I'd get it in. At that point he is pretty much committed to a draw if he has it. If he has QJ so be it.

If he had checked the turn then you would want to shove, regardless of whatever card shows up. Unless the card brings a full house or quads, in which case, you could consider slow playing.

After checking the river, I'd shove.

definitely want to raise the turn imo, it's a completely indifferent spot for villain, you've done your job, jam turn, sit back in your chair and browse 2p2

river i just check back as played, you just will never get credit for having the flush esp if he has a blocker but i wouldn't want to put him on one hand, QJ, since he should have a lot more combos than that but some people do only have QJ here so i can see just calling the turn but i think it's a shove for pure value vs his entire range, seemingly an indifferent spot for both players plus you suck out vs better 20% of the time...i really think this spot can be shoved on the turn and get called by worse enough/suck out vs better enough that i just jam and live with it, also, we have more QJ in our pf range than he does so it definitely balances all our hands and people make mistakes

I actually think KK is just a call on the turn and TT is a shove because we don't block top pair hands he can level himself to call with like KQ KJ

I'm not sure how frequently you've been opening but I think the ace blocks a lot of your possible flush draws. If he's really been quiet I'm also not sure that K9 and K10 is in his preflop range. I also think that there's some chance that has clubs and is trapping the river.

On the flop, I think if your image is really THAT aggressive then I think there's a lot of value in 4-betting the flop if you think he's going to call you down light. Like if he might have called behind with AK or if he's calling with KG I think you should shove. If not, I like the call because he probably doesn't expect an aggressive player to trap and might interpret the call on the flop as fairly weak.

On the turn I don't think the 6 changes much. I think the real question is if this guy is on a flush draw will he bluff the river if he misses? I think he might if he interprets you as an action player and your call as signifying more weakness then most because he thinks you have a big raising range. Given what we know about our opponent I like the call.

On the river I think checking back is the best option. I don't think he's folding QJ, especially if he has a club, partly because the ace blocks all your suited aces in clubs and nut flush draws. I don't know how broadly you've been opening but with the Ace King and Ten of clubs out there that blocks a lot of your opening range with clubs and if your flush draw was weak on the flop he might not believe that you called him down with a weak flush draw. I think we don't know much about this guy and there's also a possibility that he made his flush on the river and is now trapping. Normally here, I don't think we can make a better hand fold and I think we're behind his calling range.

I think you played it completely well. So long as you don't 3bet the flop with QJ

I think exploitively no one is ever checking a flush here with only a 1/3 pot behind.

Villain has a range of 99/K9 and discounted T9/KT. Villain also has a ton of QJss/QJo and some 78ss. I think TT isn't doing that great vs villains calling range. I don't think a two pair calls, and 99 is unlikely. I also think vast majority of villains checking calling/bluff catching range is straights.

Betting TT is neither a value bet, nor a bluff vs that range