PokerStars, $200 + $15 - Hold'em No Limit - 700/1,400 (175 ante) - 9 players
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bressmen4 (UTG): 91,257 (65 bb)
dafnuni (UTG+1): 148,174 (106 bb)
Rafa NadaI (MP): 80,934 (58 bb)
suuuuucz (MP+1): 92,278 (66 bb)
Tekohzt (LP): 27,433 (20 bb)
RichArt87 (CO): 19,650 (14 bb)
chonseSTEE (BU): 45,835 (33 bb)
PhilEV53 (SB): 263,074 (188 bb)
za3be4u (BB): 79,433 (57 bb)

Pre-Flop: (3,675) Hero (suuuuucz) is MP+1 with J♠ Q♥
3 players fold, suuuuucz (MP+1) raises to 3,500, 4 players fold, za3be4u (BB) calls 2,100

Flop: (9,275) J♥ 5♠ A♣ (2 players)
za3be4u (BB) checks, suuuuucz (MP+1) bets 3,920, za3be4u (BB) calls 3,920

Turn: (17,115) J♣ (2 players)
za3be4u (BB) checks, suuuuucz (MP+1) checks

River: (17,115) 4♠ (2 players)
za3be4u (BB) bets 17,500, suuuuucz (MP+1) calls 17,500

Total pot: 52,115

Showdown:
za3be4u (BB) shows A♠ K♣ (two pair, Aces and Jacks)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 65%, Flop: 82%, Turn: 5%, River: 0%)

suuuuucz (MP+1) shows J♠ Q♥ (three of a kind, Jacks)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 35%, Flop: 18%, Turn: 95%, River: 100%)

suuuuucz (MP+1) wins 52,115



Hello, what do you think about this hand? I think on flop i have standard cbet, could go even bigger, turn i checked because i think BB has more Jx than me, and river I don't really know, if i have a raise against this polarized bet? And turn, its better to bet or check?

It's fine, but I'd just triple here. Sure Jx is pretty good for oop, but you can still have bets here. River call is good.

Less otf bet turn shove river

I'd say you were pretty lucky that Villain played like a passive fish pre and on the flop... Not to mention lucky to bink the 2nd J.

I guess that is what this forum is come to. Humble brag hands that involve little to no strategy and would fit better in BBV.

No you

I think on this turn you need to protect your bets more than you need to protect your checks. Like we have plenty of Ax that can do this and nobody is punishing Ax in this line with like a 3x overbet river probe so imo using as a catcher is a waste of trips. You basically need to raise river to make this worthwhile.

OOP would be different because he could put two chunky bets in after turn check which Ax may struggle to withstand.

You have a J, tough for Vilain to have more J. Bet turn.

Open fine
V should 3!
Cbet fine
Check turn and look for value over 2 streets? Sure, why not. 1/3 pot on paired turn? Yep that works too.
River snap

Got to bet turn at very high frequency when you take this line.

As played raise river please. You lose to so few combos.

I think you misplayed this hand. The flop should be a check IMO. On the turn, why are you checking here? If the villain has a worse J, you want to build the pot. You will likely get some value from a weak Ace. The River he bombs and you are worried about AJ or 55, and KJ? If you ship it, and he has a J, you will get called by JT, j9, j8 or some other random J.

Yeah, all of the above is fine and interesting... but did you win the tourney OP?

Just a wild guess, OP is NOT Vanessa.

Kind of interesting hand. I also would check the flop and bet the turn.

Villain's preflop play is obviously donkish. Someone said raise the flop. He has a big range disadvantage, but since he does have a very strong hand, the raise might be good. I wouldn't make the psb on the river for value with that weak a hand, but he may not expect you to check back the turn with trips or better.