(1/2) KK three-way at new home game
01-21-2019
, 10:07 AM
1/2 home game - this is Hero's first time at the game, so the reads are only based on the hands for that night.
Hero's Image: Luckbox. (I had been caught bluffing two streets with six high in a previous hand, and was down $200 till I tripled up with 99 vs KK from nit and KJ from maniac (hit the set.). Won a big hand with AA vs K8 on a K83 (all in, call) 55 runout. I *think* I'm good at poker, but the main reason I have a big stack, as far as this table is concerned, is luck.
Vil 1: Vil 1 is a okay player, has most of the basics down, but plays too many hands and calls down way too light. Stack is $450
Vil 2: Vil 2 is a tight reg, and plays ABC poker. Stack is $200.
Hero covers both.
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preflop:
Pot is $92
Flop is 9
8
3
Thoughts? Spoilers in next post.
Hero's Image: Luckbox. (I had been caught bluffing two streets with six high in a previous hand, and was down $200 till I tripled up with 99 vs KK from nit and KJ from maniac (hit the set.). Won a big hand with AA vs K8 on a K83 (all in, call) 55 runout. I *think* I'm good at poker, but the main reason I have a big stack, as far as this table is concerned, is luck.
Vil 1: Vil 1 is a okay player, has most of the basics down, but plays too many hands and calls down way too light. Stack is $450
Vil 2: Vil 2 is a tight reg, and plays ABC poker. Stack is $200.
Hero covers both.
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preflop:
- SB posts $1
- BB (Vil1) posts $2
- UTG folds, UTG + 1 folds,
- MP (Vil1) limps $2,
- Hero has KK MP+1 (Hero) raises to $13,
- MP+2 folds,
- HJ(Vil2) 3-bets to $30,
- CO folds, BUT folds, SB folds, BB folds,
- Vil1 calls $30,
- Hero calls $30???
Quote:
My thoughts on this - why not just 4-bet to $100?
Well, a couple of reasons.
I'm out of position against Vil2, but his range is pretty well defined: AJ+, TT+. My thoughts are - if I 4-bet here, I fold out a lot of the hands that I can comfortably get value from on a non-ace flop (AQ on a Q-high flop, AJ on a J high flop, QQ, JJ, TT)
But if I 4-bet, JJ, TT, AJ, AQ all go away, leaving QQ/KK/AA/AK. I'm not so invested that I can't throw away kings on an ace high flop, so why not see the flop. Vil 1's range is even wider, and will fold to a 4-bet with a majority of his hands.
And if I get 5-bet, then basically I'm up against AA and AA only.
Well, a couple of reasons.
I'm out of position against Vil2, but his range is pretty well defined: AJ+, TT+. My thoughts are - if I 4-bet here, I fold out a lot of the hands that I can comfortably get value from on a non-ace flop (AQ on a Q-high flop, AJ on a J high flop, QQ, JJ, TT)
But if I 4-bet, JJ, TT, AJ, AQ all go away, leaving QQ/KK/AA/AK. I'm not so invested that I can't throw away kings on an ace high flop, so why not see the flop. Vil 1's range is even wider, and will fold to a 4-bet with a majority of his hands.
And if I get 5-bet, then basically I'm up against AA and AA only.
Flop is 9
83- Vil1 checks
- Hero checks(with intent to c-r, thinking Vil2 will c-bet A-high)
- Vil 2 bets $70 (has $350 behind)
- Vil 1 calls $70 (has $100 behind)
- (pot is now $232) Hero tanks, check-raise all-in??? ($420 effective)
- ($350 for Vil2 to call a pot of $932 total) Vil2 tanks 3+minutes. Vil2 tries to get Hero to talk. Eventually folds.
- ($100 for Vil1 to call a pot of $432 total) Vil1 calls all-in $100
Quote:
Obviously that's a good flop for me, as my flat pre to the 3-bet means my kings are underrepped, and I DO think that I get called with worse from Vil 2 (TT, JJ, QQ) and fold out a lot of hands with equity (AK, AJ, AQ). If he's got aces or a set of nines, so be it, that's really the top of his range, though. The board's got a straight draw but I don't think he'd put me on it.
Whatever Vil 2 does, Vil1 should probably call if he's got any piece of it or any good draw given the pot odds. Vil2's range is really wide here, given his short stack, I think I'm way ahead of Vil2.
Whatever Vil 2 does, Vil1 should probably call if he's got any piece of it or any good draw given the pot odds. Vil2's range is really wide here, given his short stack, I think I'm way ahead of Vil2.
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