1/3 -- 99 UTG +1
11-18-2018
, 07:57 PM
Hi All,
9 handed
Midday/Midweek table
Hero (425) black 99
Villain SB (covers)
Villian has been aggressive, is on a heater and seems competent. Does not raise weird hands preflop. Middle pairs and unsuited broadway would be the bottom of his raising PF range from any position. I suspect he may float me a lightly as I have caught him earlier doing it with bottom pair, heads up, in position. He may also have a LAGGy view of me, which is probably why he is floating light. He is a rec player but I have seem him on heaters at 2/5 before.
UTG limps, hero bets 20, villain calls in SB, limper folds, HU to the flop
(46)
J
4
3
Villain checks, Hero bets 25, Villain calls
(96)
K
Villain checks, hero bets 50, villain calls
(196)
9
Villain 225, Hero's action?
Thanks for all of your feedback so far everyone... couple questions for this hand:
PF -- 99 is a standard open from UTG +1, no? This was not a table with heavy action...
Flop -- This has got to be a standard cbet heads up and in position, right? If I check and show weakness I know a 1/2 pot or larger raise with be coming OTT and I don't have a lot of information about his hand at this point.
Thoughts on sizing?
Turn -- Is this a good barrel card? By betting this 1/2 pot aren't we getting most J's and PP's 1010- to fold? Or should I just be giving up on the hand and this point, HU and in position vs. a sticky opponent? Should my sizing be adjusted?
River -- This is probably the street I have the least questions about but am still curious how others view this river spot
9 handed
Midday/Midweek table
Hero (425) black 99
Villain SB (covers)
Villian has been aggressive, is on a heater and seems competent. Does not raise weird hands preflop. Middle pairs and unsuited broadway would be the bottom of his raising PF range from any position. I suspect he may float me a lightly as I have caught him earlier doing it with bottom pair, heads up, in position. He may also have a LAGGy view of me, which is probably why he is floating light. He is a rec player but I have seem him on heaters at 2/5 before.
UTG limps, hero bets 20, villain calls in SB, limper folds, HU to the flop
(46)
J
43Villain checks, Hero bets 25, Villain calls
(96)
K
Villain checks, hero bets 50, villain calls
(196)
9
Villain 225, Hero's action?
Thanks for all of your feedback so far everyone... couple questions for this hand:
PF -- 99 is a standard open from UTG +1, no? This was not a table with heavy action...
Flop -- This has got to be a standard cbet heads up and in position, right? If I check and show weakness I know a 1/2 pot or larger raise with be coming OTT and I don't have a lot of information about his hand at this point.
Thoughts on sizing?
Turn -- Is this a good barrel card? By betting this 1/2 pot aren't we getting most J's and PP's 1010- to fold? Or should I just be giving up on the hand and this point, HU and in position vs. a sticky opponent? Should my sizing be adjusted?
River -- This is probably the street I have the least questions about but am still curious how others view this river spot
Last edited by Black98Red; 11-18-2018 at 08:03 PM.
11-19-2018
, 06:03 PM
We don't have to cbet 99 on a J-high board. If I were taking a somewhat balanced approach I would probably check back with JJ JT TT 99 and total junk and bet 44 33 QJ+ 88 77 66 overs+BDFDS+BD-straight-draws.
I'd be doing this to protect my flop-checking range so villain can't just lead all turns after I check flop. It also prevents me building a big pot with medium pairs - it's much easier to bet once with 88/77/66 and give up than with JTs/TT/99.
Betting flop is fine too though and has its advantages and disadvantages - just saying it's not mandatory.
When you bet turn you are turning your hand into a bluff. I'd prefer a check back but if I bet turn I'll go bigger like I actually hit the K and want to give a bad price to any flush draws or straight draws he just picked up after floating me OOP and get proper value from his JX. I wouldn't be planning on triple barreling because I expect the folds a bit of his JX to a big turn bet and mostly continues with his turned draws which we're beating with our pair on blank rivers anyway. But I prefer to just check back at this point.
As played to river villain leads with an overbet. Usually this is really fat value when the draws complete like this.
He can't have rivered many 2-pair if he's not getting out of line preflop because he only has 9Xs not any 9Xo which means he can't have more than 2 combos of K9/J9 (diamonds).
So he slow played a flopped set or turned two pair, OR rivered a straight or flush OR overbet bluffed the river.
He's got pretty much no bluffs other than 3 combos of busted flopped straight draws with 65s (clubs diamonds and spades, 65hh is a flush).
He's supposedly competent so he should mostly lead or check-raise flopped sets and turned 2-pair on the turn.
I conclude he mostly has QTs or a flush (or straight flush) and hopes you have KQ+ and can't fold. You know he's floating you light so I reckon he can have a bunch of overcard/overcards with BDFD/BDSD continuing against your flop bet, picking up equity on the turn and hitting big on the river.
Without doing the maths I'm not sure but I guess you don't have a profitable call here despite having 3rd set. Could be wrong - often am
I'd be doing this to protect my flop-checking range so villain can't just lead all turns after I check flop. It also prevents me building a big pot with medium pairs - it's much easier to bet once with 88/77/66 and give up than with JTs/TT/99.
Betting flop is fine too though and has its advantages and disadvantages - just saying it's not mandatory.
When you bet turn you are turning your hand into a bluff. I'd prefer a check back but if I bet turn I'll go bigger like I actually hit the K and want to give a bad price to any flush draws or straight draws he just picked up after floating me OOP and get proper value from his JX. I wouldn't be planning on triple barreling because I expect the folds a bit of his JX to a big turn bet and mostly continues with his turned draws which we're beating with our pair on blank rivers anyway. But I prefer to just check back at this point.
As played to river villain leads with an overbet. Usually this is really fat value when the draws complete like this.
He can't have rivered many 2-pair if he's not getting out of line preflop because he only has 9Xs not any 9Xo which means he can't have more than 2 combos of K9/J9 (diamonds).
So he slow played a flopped set or turned two pair, OR rivered a straight or flush OR overbet bluffed the river.
He's got pretty much no bluffs other than 3 combos of busted flopped straight draws with 65s (clubs diamonds and spades, 65hh is a flush).
He's supposedly competent so he should mostly lead or check-raise flopped sets and turned 2-pair on the turn.
I conclude he mostly has QTs or a flush (or straight flush) and hopes you have KQ+ and can't fold. You know he's floating you light so I reckon he can have a bunch of overcard/overcards with BDFD/BDSD continuing against your flop bet, picking up equity on the turn and hitting big on the river.
Without doing the maths I'm not sure but I guess you don't have a profitable call here despite having 3rd set. Could be wrong - often am