Hero (600ish) - TAG Young asian guy, folding 95% hands, but I believe I give off a spewy image b/c 3 hands ago won a pot with AQo and C-bet a flop of K10x rainbow and got my c-bet check raised 3x, bink J on turn and get a villian's stack who had KQ)
Villian (275) - LAG Chinese guy in his late 20's or 30's, I've seen Villian play 1 session of 2/5 and he's seen me play, His play is solid postflop with a wider range preflop. Villian lost a big pot earlier against this session vs another guy raise bluffing river when his opponent played a set very passively. Villian showed a missed backdoor flush draw, Villian has been playing maybe a third of his hands after.
Hand Action :
UTG Straddle for 6, Hero UTG +1 Raises to 25 AK spades, folds all the way to Villian in BB, Villian Calls, UTG folds
I think my preflop raise size is ok. Thoughts?
Flop 758 two hearts, Villian Checks, I check. Pot (57)
I think this is a wet board and hits most of his range, so I don't decide to c-bet. Don't see him folding better hands. Thoughts?
Turn A , still 2 hearts on Board Villian bets 40, Hero calls 40 Pot (137)
My plan is to call and give opponent a chance to bluff most scary river cards to call most river bets because Villian seems to still be steaming from the hand he lost earlier in the session.
River 4 of Hearts, Villian instashoves for about 210. I tank for a minute and he says "Big Ace, hm?"
Hero ??
Last edited by JustTenBeaversBaby; 02-08-2014 at 03:20 PM.
looks like a pretty easy fold. villain needs to bet close to 100% of his range on any turn and follow up on a river shove to make this call profitable, plus hero probably has the image of playing his hands face up and of being a calling station...
Do you think I could raise on the turn for value, or do you think that would be spewy? I played the hand pretty passively and my image is pretty bad so...
You might as well have shown him your hand how you played it. If you had an overpair, would you have checked the flop? You also would have cbet your FD with two overs.
When your opponent knows what you have and you don't have a clue as to what he has, it is time to fold. And don't raise the turn, you'd never check the flop with a made hand.
I did end up folding, he mucked facedown, I felt I had a soul-read on the guy and wanted to call, but that's because I am a bit of a calling station. Thanks guys
You might as well have shown him your hand how you played it. If you had an overpair, would you have checked the flop? You also would have cbet your FD with two overs.
When your opponent knows what you have and you don't have a clue as to what he has, it is time to fold. And don't raise the turn, you'd never check the flop with a made hand.
I think a small raise/fold on the turn for value is going to be +EV. Villain will likely still call with AQ-AT and all of his flush draws.
You might as well have shown him your hand how you played it. If you had an overpair, would you have checked the flop? You also would have cbet your FD with two overs.
When your opponent knows what you have and you don't have a clue as to what he has, it is time to fold. And don't raise the turn, you'd never check the flop with a made hand.
i like hero´s line, what else would you do? cbet this board? raise turn? call river?
nh, OP imo, well played on all streets. turn can go both way imo, actually prefer a small raise to a call, but i don´t think it matters much tbh.
I c-bet the flop. He IS calling with some worse hands (T9, (a stiff 6 like A6s or something), and flush draws. He could also have a hand like KhQc and bluff a number of scare cards on the turn and blow you off the best hand.
I probably raise his bet on the turn to like $95 to charge draws and get value from worse Ax type hands.
I fold the hand on the RVR. He has probably just made a flush and is trying to make his bet look like a bluff. He almost never turns AJ or something into a bluff OTR.
Raise preflop is nice and successful, plus sets up an SPR where we can brain dead stackoff postflop on TP.
Against an ABC opponent, I would cbet. But against a tricky opponent, I'm kinda ok with checking back the flop a lot (although admittedly it could get a little gross on later streets, especially when I'm probably calling any turn bet).
I also just flat the turn. At this point against an aggro opponent I'm attempting to turn my hand into a bluff catcher. I might even do a reverse tell and look at my cards before calling as if to signal I'm on a draw.
Well, gross river spot. I probably sigh fold in spite of wanting to look him up here so bad. But every single draw did get there.
