Interesting hand from last nights session - vs. a fish.

Winning Poker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.25/$0.50 - 5 players
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UTG: $53.19 (106 bb)
CO (Hero): $76.75 (154 bb)
BU: $36.33 (73 bb)
SB: $93.84 (188 bb)
BB: $30.94 (62 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.75) Hero is CO with A♦ J♥
1 fold, Hero raises to $1.15, 2 players fold, BB calls $0.65

Flop: ($2.55) 7♠ A♠ 2♣ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $1.50, BB calls $1.50

Turn: ($5.55) 4♦ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $3, BB calls $3

River: ($11.55) 7♥ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $6, BB calls $6

How do we like this line? I was planning on bet/folding to a raise, but I realize my sizings were really small. I think a fish's range will be relatively pair heavy and the 7 hits that hard. I think betting huge OTT like 5$ and smaller OTR makes sense. Thoughts?

Doesn't seem bad. I use a different turn sizing though, I would overbet turn.

I like that line for single pair boards. Block betting and checking are even okay as well. If they are calling with A on River, need to rethink their strategy. You could go as high as 4.50 on turn.

Looks good to me only I would bet river larger since we have range advantage and now beat A2s/A4s.

This. You can always x back river, this hand can go in your turn overbet range.

Yeah interesting analysis guys. If we are overbetting the turn, it would be around 125-150% pot I assume. What rivers could we also bet after the overbet and for what size?

two short sessions

Interesting spot here -

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UTG: $68.28 (137 bb)
MP: $54.35 (109 bb)
CO: $54.45 (109 bb)
BU: $58.77 (118 bb)
SB (Hero): $50.00 (100 bb)
BB: $108.78 (218 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.75) Hero is SB with A♥ K♣
UTG raises to $1.10, 3 players fold, Hero 3-bets to $5, 1 fold, UTG calls $3.90

Flop: ($10.50) K♥ T♦ 9♣ (2 players)
Hero bets $3.29, UTG calls $3.29

Turn: ($17.08) 7♥ (2 players)
Hero bets $10.09, UTG calls $10.09

River: ($37.26) 5♦ (2 players)
Hero bets $31.62 (all-in), UTG calls $31.62

Total pot: $100.50 (Rake: $3)

Showdown:
SB (Hero) shows A♥ K♣ (a pair of Kings)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 60%, Flop: 4%, Turn: 0%, River: 0%)

UTG shows J♠ Q♠ (a straight, Nine to King)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 40%, Flop: 96%, Turn: 100%, River: 100%)

UTG wins $97.50


Well played or no? River jam seems pretty thin tbh. Better to check decided?

What are his stats?

Problem for me is i don't think he calls with worse on river. KQ is literally the only hand I can see him calling 3 streets with. AQhh, AJhh just fold river..

AT might fold turn and not even see a river with exception to AThh..even then its prob not calling a jam.

I don't know his stats I don't think about that much. What are we doing OTR in your opinion? block??

b/b/j AK seems a bit questionable imo, esp with this combo, and in ubernitty acr zoom pool

If you were in fishy or high steaks pool I could see it

Once again, we have a single pair hand. In my experience, it should not be played that aggressively. Villain made a mistake to call the 3bet, but got rewarded. It happens. What are your aggressive stats? What are your cbet stats? If villain has a hud, and notes, then may play that way against you. I would have half pot or larger pot on flop, half pot turn, and check river. If you have gto software, run a sim, and see what it would do in this situation.

Edit to add: nice you took break there.

No stats? You don't use a hud?! Your missing out on EV by not using it. Even if its super simple like vpip/pfr/3B/# of hands ..especially in a blitz pool.

As far as the hand...check river and prob crying call. I hate calling in this spot because he will so rarely bet with worse but betting will almost never called by worse so I guess checking > betting.

You have to go broke there with AK in a 3bet pot. I think the triple is fine, as there are lots of crappy players that will call with KQ at least, although xc is also decent, and let them bluff even with some made hands.

I have a HUD, I just don't put too much emphasis on stats because I don't have a ton of hands. What do you think is the worst hand we can shove? Seems like a pretty narrow range otr, but I supposed we narrowed his range too

Yeah I think I am probably going broke any way in this hand, just wondering what the best way to do it is.

Decent sesh yesterday.

Thinking about taking a cheeky little nl100 shot take on reg tables once I hit 15 buy ins. It's a little aggressive but I'd drop down once I lose like 200bb

What I meant was there is a big difference in EP range when he's 15/10 over 200 hands or 28/16 over 150 hands. Their 3b calling ranges are going to be vastly different as the 28/16 player will have to call more in order to defend his wider opening range. Worst hand I jam there is prob AA..I just don't have a triple barrel range OOP sb vs EP. The fact that our perceived range from SB is super tight to begin and this flop is not all that great for our range. We don't have all the sets but he does, we don't have straights and he does so I just personally don't triple here.

I would def take note that he calls a 3B IP with QJs. That means you can 3B wider for value vs him when he is IP as he prob peels JTs,T9s-65s as well. Those unblock most of our 3b range and have good equity postflop on alot of textures.

Great session in the mid day - up to 1300 bankroll again.

Funny hand where a fish absolutely donates a stack to me -

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SB: $51.15 (102 bb)
BB (Hero): $50.00 (100 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with A♠ 9♦
SB raises to $1.25, Hero calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.50) 9♥ 3♦ 5♣ (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $1.25, Hero calls $1.25

Turn: ($5) 3♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $2, Hero calls $2

River: ($9) 9♠ (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $46.65 (all-in), Hero calls $45.50 (all-in)

Total pot: $100 (Rake: $0.50)

Showdown:
SB shows 3♣ 5♠ (a full house, Threes full of Nines)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 36%, Flop: 73%, Turn: 95%, River: 0%)

BB (Hero) shows A♠ 9♦ (a full house, Nines full of Threes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 64%, Flop: 27%, Turn: 5%, River: 100%)

BB (Hero) wins $99.50

I'll definitely take note of this - I'm used to value jamming quite wide but the players in this pool are slightly better, so unless I'm against a pure fish (not a - 2-3bb/100 reg) I probably won't jam this.

Sh.it man if the only thing you ever listen to that I've said..use the hud! Even if its super simple like I said. You have to play each player as an individual, this isn't PLO where equities are close and its difficult to range opponents due to the sheer number of combos. Im not saying to make wild adjustments where your completely overhauling your game, but if a player is 18/12, think twice before 3b bluffing that A4s. You can find better spots. Like a player thats 25/18, it's going to work more often vs them than the latter. Thats just an example but hopefully you get what im trying to say. GLGL

I totally agree - definitely more useful that I thought, even preflop stats have implications postflop that I wasn't thinking about. Thanks for the advice, I have hand2note. Do you have any advice for what stats to use? VPIP, PFR, 3b, F23b, Cb, any more?

VP:PFR:3B:agg%
Flopagg%:Turnagg%:Riveragg%

thats all i use. supersimple, theres more stats if you hover and need them but its not cluttered. reason i use Agg% and not CB is CB takes so long to get anything useful. like you might have 200 hands but cb stat will be like 40% ( 4/10) which doesnt tell a whole lot of info because the sample is so small. flop agg% though will show something like 25% ( 16/64) which is much more useful as it will converge faster.

another winning session boyssss.


up to 1370$ hopefully nl100 shot coming soon!!!!!

Interesting hand here if anyone wants to go over -

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UTG: $118.91 (238 bb)
MP: $59.75 (120 bb)
CO (Hero): $167.90 (336 bb)
BU: $81.16 (162 bb)
SB: $66.38 (133 bb)
BB: $50.00 (100 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.75) Hero is CO with Q♣ Q♦
UTG raises to $1.25, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets to $4, 3 players fold, UTG calls $2.75

Flop: ($8.75) T♦ 2♦ J♦ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($8.75) 7♠ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $3.49, UTG raises to $7.73, Hero calls $4.24

River: ($24.21) A♣ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

Pre is standard, otf I think this is a flop we need to be more selective whilst betting so I decide to mix in a x with QQd. I'm not sure if we should ever be trapping with a hand as relatively vulnerable as this. Then we bet the turn a relatively standard sizing and get like minraised, we call (3 betting seems too strong), turn is A and it goes xx. Thoughts?

Thanks!

What do you mean by this? Mix between bet and check or mix between small bet and big bet? I had trouble with the sizing OTT.

Interesting results. I could see why QQ with a diamond would be a higher frequency bet. How about the flop? What is QQ doing there?

You want to be using AA/KK as a check more often than QQ in general because there are less bad cards for them