0.5/1 KK on 4-flush board
Join Date: May 2014
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Hi, new to the forum, would appreciate some feedback on this hand from my first ever live session. I have played online on and off for the last few years, running $20 up to $1k in a mixture of microstakes cash games and <$10 tourneys; I decided to try my hand at the live game.
0.5/1 (UK), 5 handed. Most of the weaker players have busted; with the exception of the guy to my immediate right, everyone else is playing fairly solid.
Hero - young, white, playing tight, hasn't gotten out of line, though recently showed willingness to gamble calling aggressive bad player's 100BB open shove with AQ, winning against his 44.
Villain - middle aged, white, somewhat unpleasant (called waitress over just to berate her after he couldn't get her attention), and when our original short handed table was broken to join the main table, he squeezed himself into a "new" seat to the left of 2 big stacks, bringing a chair from the other table (should I have called him on this? no one else seemed to notice)
Playing quite TAG, I have seen him take this OOP bet/bet/bet line twice - once he flopped trips and got paid off, second time he folded angrily to a river shove getting a ridiculous price on a call.
5 handed, 300 effective
Hero (UTG+1) raises to 6 with Kd Ks
Villain (SB) calls, rest fold
Flop (13) Qc 9c 4d
Villain bets 8, hero calls
Turn (29) 4c
Villain bets 15, hero calls
River (59) 7c
Villain bets 30, hero?
Should I be raising the flop, folding to a re-raise? Getting 300bb in with an overpair seems terrible, and I didn't feel he was bad enough to stack off with 1 pair anyway. As played, call river?
Thanks in advance
Join Date: Dec 2007
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i think I prefer a raise/fold OTR to a call. It should get rid of any random little clubs in his hand that we hate.
Pre, Can we go bigger here? IDK the Brit games, but in my .5/1 games I can open for 9x pretty easily, and have sometime opened for as much as 17x when the game was cray. Given that you only got one caller, though, it seems perhaps not.
Flop is a raise, imo. This V could often do this with a draw to set up implied odds ("he couldn't have a flush/straight, he led out OTF.")
Turn is a call, and call almost all non-club rivers, as most of his range is QX here. Only because of the 4th club would I prefer to turn our hand into a bluff. He's unlikely to re-bluff a board this scary (paired and 4-flush), so it's an easy fold if he comes over the top, and you win all the hands you would have won against anyway, plus a lot of JTxc combos. Plus we know that he can fold to river raises when getting redic odds to call, so we can bluff at this pretty cheaply. I make it 75.
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