1/2 nl A10 spades in hijack
Join Date: Feb 2017
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9 handed 1/2 live
Hero 260 ~
Villain 700~
In hijack looking at A 10 SPADES 4 limpers hero calls button raises to 16 two callers hero calls
Pot:48~
Villan is to my left havent played any hands with him
Flop comes 8 5 7 two spades
Checks back to button who bets 25 folds atound to villan who reraises to 80 hero calls button folds heads up to turn. Turn is an offsuit J
Villain shoves hero ??
..i know theres so many mistakes i made im fairly new to the live any and all help would be appreciated
Last edited by Garick; 02-26-2017 at 06:52 PM.
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Fold to the raise preflop. Your not deep enough to be fishing for a big flop and it's too likely you are losing if you flop 1 pair.
On flop bet yourself, fold or shove over the bet/raise. You are not nearly deep enough to be passively calling with a flush draw. Given the action this would normally be a fold as usually you are in good shape only if villain will do this with a lot of worse flush draws.
Last edited by Garick; 02-26-2017 at 06:53 PM.
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To keep it simple two things jump out at me.
1) ATs is a pretty beastly hand to raise on the hijack. Against 4 limpers I would go ~$15-17
2) Fold on the flop. Don't go as far cold-calling a reraise to draw a spade. Jamming on the flop is a better option, but without a read that he has hands he can fold I'm for sure folding.
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Welcome to the forum, OP. Please don't post results, as it biases advice. I edited them out.
Please raise the first time. You have good position and a hand that is way ahead of limpers' ranges. I don't mind the second call if you're closing action, but it's close. Definitely not getting excited if we flop a pair of aces.
AP, Bet the flop, imo. You have the NFD and two overs, plus if everyone folds you just won the hand with ace-high. Life is good. After the button bet and the V check-raise (how does he do this if he's on your left?), you should fold. If had just been a bet, you could c/r as a semi-bluff, but almost no one raise/folds at 1/2.
AP to the turn, pot is about $230, and you have $164 behind. Your call will represent 29.4% of the $558 pot. You have have 7 outs to the nuts for 14% equity, plus 2 outs to the near nuts (the board-pairing spades could give V a full-house/quads) so lets call that another 3% equity, and sometimes an ace or a ten will be good, so lets call that another 4% (being generous that an ace is good half the time, and a ten rarely), for a total of 21%. That's nowhere near 29.4%, so we must fold.
Hell, even if all aces and Ts are outs, that's only 26%, so even best case, we must fold.