The downswing continued to the point that I was down 11 BI's when I started my sesh on Thursday. Played some 9-handed 50NL to mix it up. I hardly play 9-handed, but in my limited experience it's pretty soft. Very slow tho. Anyway, I was up ~2.5 BI's when this frustrating and (I think) interesting hand came up.
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NL Holdem $0.50(BB)
CO ($121.34)
BTN ($9.75)
SB ($49.5)
HERO ($175.51)
UTG ($15.25)
MP ($96.13)
HJ ($14.5)
Dealt to Hero 5
4
UTG Calls $0.5 (Rem. Stack: 14.75), MP Folds,
HJ Calls $0.5 (Rem. Stack: 14.0),
CO Calls $0.5 (Rem. Stack: 120.84),
BTN Calls $0.5 (Rem. Stack: 9.25),
SB Calls $0.25 (Rem. Stack: 49.00), HERO Checks
Flop ($3.00) A
K
9
SB Bets $1.5 (Rem. Stack: 47.50), HERO Calls $1.5 (Rem. Stack: 173.51), UTG Folds, HJ Folds, CO Folds,
BTN Raises To $9.25 (allin) (Rem. Stack: 0.00),
SB Calls $7.75 (Rem. Stack: 39.75), HERO Folds
Turn ($23.00) A
K
9
7
River ($23.00) A
K
9
7
J
BTN shows K
9
SB shows 9
A
SB wins $21.85
I was poised to ship it, had my bet-amount slider to the max. I thought I had hit time bank. But no, timed out. I was both frustrated and relieved. I was up 2.5 BI's at that point and wanted to protect the win. I know that's terrible thinking IRT to being good at poker. But we have about 0% equity vs higher flushes. SB was 19/5/0 w/agg% 9 over 22 hands. In the end I think SB has about 9-12 combos of better flushes here. 18 combos of 2 pair. 3 combos of 99. They are prob raising AA and KK pre w/all the limpers. W/only 22 hands and that the player pool seems so fishy in general they are prob showing up w/AA and KK a small percentage of the time tho. Maybe some AQ w/Q
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Hero has the SS's range beat here. Only 4 hands on SS, but going by how SS play in general. Given how fishy the play seems at 9-handed (and 6-handed) in my bit of experience I think we can just gii here. Between the money in the pot already (and being confident we beat SS's range) and SB prob calling often enough w/2 pair, sets, and even hands w/Q
I think it's +ev to just gii. I don't like calling bc I want to protect our equity in the hand. Min raise? Rather just gii to protect our equity and I think SB's calling range is pretty inelastic when it comes to calling a shove vs calling a min raise.