Two cards; unlimited betting
05-17-2017
, 03:02 PM
Hero is about to play 3 orbits of unlimited betting hold em, before playing Omaha. Hero will later regret playing omaha.
A few hands before this hero defended the bb multiway with 54
and flopped bottom two, checkraised vs a psb/3 callers and got it through, winning over 100bb.
btn: Hero ($650)
bb: V1 ($700)
HJ: V2 ($300)
UTG: V3 ($1200)
Now, V3 is a massive, massive whale. The kind who maybe gets out of the casino with money 3 times a month, despite playing 15+ times a month. Usually good for 5-10 $100 bullets a night. Just the easiest money you'll ever see, but he somehow has racked up this much and is currently racking up. It is his last hand.
V1 is a young kid, around the same age as hero (~mid 20s). He has battled hero with...less than premium hands for very large pots before.
V2 is an unknown, seems like your average ABC mid 30s dude. Approaching him as such, anyway.
Onto the hand: 9
10
otb
V3 opens to 10 utg. V2 calls, we call and the bb defends.
($41)Flop: A910
V1 is first to act and leads out $30. V3 mucks, picks up his rack and leaves. Very unfortunate. V2 calls. We call.
($130)Turn: A9109
($235)River: A91095
V1 instantly slides out two stacks, bets $200. V2 folds quickly. Hero tank...calls.
PF:
V3 is the type who will raise to $20-25 with a $100 stack with premiums and will usually even raise a J10o type to like $16. I'm treating this basically like a straddle where he doesn't get an option as he never has a premium here. V2 calls and we look down at 910. We have the button, we don't like to fold buttons. We don't like to fold hands like 910o over 300bb effective either, for only 3bb pf.
Flop: We're a bit surprised to see V1 donk out of the BB. We have history with him, but haven't played any big pots with him on a similarly textured board. I still believe his range to be pretty wide, from big draws to made hands. I would have expected to CR him more made hands with the whale likely to bet a lot of flops though.
When V2 calls, with both the speed of his call and his very obvious doesn't play a ton tells, we're confident the guy is drawing.
We elect to call because we have a strong hand and it's a disaster if we raise and get shoved on. We're super deep, let's see a turn and play some poker.
Turn: Well, ain't that nice. We turn the best card in the deck. We also face another bet and a call. The bet being small and being 1/4 pot is unusual though. While the flop bet signified strength, the turn bet polarizes his range. Does he have what he believes to be a really strong hand just trying to keep the other players in? I believe he is heavily tilted towards value hands that can't face a raise.
V2 calls pretty quickly again and I feel he is JQ and Kx heavy. I feel he is drawing dead and almost his entire range is paint combos. It's possible he can have hands like AxJ as well, but whatever.
So, we're at a crossroads. We have to try to accurately range V1 and make the best decision between calling and raising vs his range. I think they're both weaker at the moment, so we elect to flat and hope a spade rolls off.
River: Well, a total blank rolls off. After a small turn bet, we expect a bet of ~$80-100 if we see one, and will then likely raise to $250-300. Instead villain now bombs for nearly pot. This again, keeps his range very polarized. He basically never has AA. We get scooped by 10s and A9, but only one combo of A9. I hate these situations in live poker because it's always tough to think for 60 seconds or longer then raise. We're obviously not folding, if they have 10s or A9 they have it. There are more flush combos in the range of V1, but I think V2 blocks a decent number of them.
Just a confusing line by V1. Donk strong otf, continue weakly ott, then bomb the river. Usually a nutted line, but we don't believe.
A few hands before this hero defended the bb multiway with 54
and flopped bottom two, checkraised vs a psb/3 callers and got it through, winning over 100bb. btn: Hero ($650)
bb: V1 ($700)
HJ: V2 ($300)
UTG: V3 ($1200)
Now, V3 is a massive, massive whale. The kind who maybe gets out of the casino with money 3 times a month, despite playing 15+ times a month. Usually good for 5-10 $100 bullets a night. Just the easiest money you'll ever see, but he somehow has racked up this much and is currently racking up. It is his last hand.
V1 is a young kid, around the same age as hero (~mid 20s). He has battled hero with...less than premium hands for very large pots before.
V2 is an unknown, seems like your average ABC mid 30s dude. Approaching him as such, anyway.
Onto the hand: 9
10 otbV3 opens to 10 utg. V2 calls, we call and the bb defends.
($41)Flop: A
910V1 is first to act and leads out $30. V3 mucks, picks up his rack and leaves. Very unfortunate. V2 calls. We call.
($130)Turn: A
9109($235)River: A
91095V1 instantly slides out two stacks, bets $200. V2 folds quickly. Hero tank...calls.
PF:
V3 is the type who will raise to $20-25 with a $100 stack with premiums and will usually even raise a J10o type to like $16. I'm treating this basically like a straddle where he doesn't get an option as he never has a premium here. V2 calls and we look down at 910. We have the button, we don't like to fold buttons. We don't like to fold hands like 910o over 300bb effective either, for only 3bb pf.
Flop: We're a bit surprised to see V1 donk out of the BB. We have history with him, but haven't played any big pots with him on a similarly textured board. I still believe his range to be pretty wide, from big draws to made hands. I would have expected to CR him more made hands with the whale likely to bet a lot of flops though.
When V2 calls, with both the speed of his call and his very obvious doesn't play a ton tells, we're confident the guy is drawing.
We elect to call because we have a strong hand and it's a disaster if we raise and get shoved on. We're super deep, let's see a turn and play some poker.
Turn: Well, ain't that nice. We turn the best card in the deck. We also face another bet and a call. The bet being small and being 1/4 pot is unusual though. While the flop bet signified strength, the turn bet polarizes his range. Does he have what he believes to be a really strong hand just trying to keep the other players in? I believe he is heavily tilted towards value hands that can't face a raise.
V2 calls pretty quickly again and I feel he is JQ and K
x heavy. I feel he is drawing dead and almost his entire range is paint combos. It's possible he can have hands like AxJ as well, but whatever.So, we're at a crossroads. We have to try to accurately range V1 and make the best decision between calling and raising vs his range. I think they're both weaker at the moment, so we elect to flat and hope a spade rolls off.
River: Well, a total blank rolls off. After a small turn bet, we expect a bet of ~$80-100 if we see one, and will then likely raise to $250-300. Instead villain now bombs for nearly pot. This again, keeps his range very polarized. He basically never has AA. We get scooped by 10s and A9, but only one combo of A9. I hate these situations in live poker because it's always tough to think for 60 seconds or longer then raise. We're obviously not folding, if they have 10s or A9 they have it. There are more flush combos in the range of V1, but I think V2 blocks a decent number of them.
Just a confusing line by V1. Donk strong otf, continue weakly ott, then bomb the river. Usually a nutted line, but we don't believe.
05-17-2017
, 06:02 PM
