5/5 live hand vs short stack straddle
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 4,758
This was sent to me by a friend. Very common and annoying spot.
This is the read on Villain: He's only been here an orbit or so. Seems like he's played before fairly often, about 30 and possibly Armenian.
Live 5/5 blinds. Villain has ~215 to start the hand, I have 800.
Villain straddles for 10. MP calls. I have AsKc in the cutoff. I raise to... 50?
Folded to villain who calls from the straddle. MP folds. HU. Pot is now 120, villain has 165 behind.
Flop comes Tc5d2d. He checks. A shove is an overbet, and has pretty much no value. Checking behind seems criminal. But a smallish/regular bet will be for 1/3-1/2 the effective stacks. What do I do?
Join Date: Mar 2012
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bet 60 and call if he all-in. don't care about post flop, you won this deal preflop
(but sometimes push good too)
Join Date: May 2006
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check back and snap off his shove on turn
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Originally Posted by DerekJCEX
check back and snap off his shove on turn
agreed, lol
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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why is checking behind criminal? you fold out everything apart from flushdraws that you beat and you have good showdown value to bluff catch on the turn
