Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - 125/250 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
UTG+1: 30.27 BB (VPIP: 20.85, PFR: 14.59, 3Bet Preflop: 8.76, Hands: 520)
MP: 59.36 BB (VPIP: 34.86, PFR: 25.31, 3Bet Preflop: 14.93, Hands: 331)
MP+1: 17.86 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9)
MP+2: 23.09 BB (VPIP: 22.73, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 4.94, Hands: 177)
CO: 35.33 BB (VPIP: 37.25, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 4.17, Hands: 51)
BTN: 42.15 BB (VPIP: 32.00, PFR: 12.57, 3Bet Preflop: 3.21, Hands: 355)
Hero (SB): 46.73 BB
BB: 19.76 BB (VPIP: 14.86, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 4.17, Hands: 75)
UTG: 10.53 BB (VPIP: 28.95, PFR: 9.21, 3Bet Preflop: 2.56, Hands: 76)
9 players post ante of 0.12 BB,
Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.58 BB) Hero has 9
9
fold,
fold,
MP raises to 2.28 BB,
fold,
fold,
fold,
fold,
Hero raises to 7.26 BB,
fold, MP calls 4.98 BB
Flop: (16.6 BB, 2 players) 8
T
5
Hero bets 4.15 BB, MP calls 4.15 BB
Turn: (24.9 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks,
MP bets 8.2 BB,
Hero calls 8.2 BB
River: (41.3 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks,
MP bets 39.63 BB and is all-in,
fold
MP wins 41.3 BB
V is a very well knows HS reg with sick results (this is only a $109, though).
He's been accused of being a bot. I highly doubt it, though.
TBH I'm not sure how he manages to pull it off consistently because he often gets way OOL. For example:
-I've seen him squeeze non-all in OTB (his 3b% from that seat is 26%!) with {Q3s}
-I've seen him open/call OTB vs a 4x 3b w/ {K3s} and float vs a huge cbet on [4J6] with a BDFD (he turned the FD, overjammed turn, got snapped and binked the backdoor OBV).
-He opens 23% from EP, often sizing his opens from all positions (IMO suboptimally) large--pretty LAGGRO stuff.
We have a little history, mostly him making me fold because I'm consistently at the bottom of my range (Aha! That's how he does it!). Not sure if he remembers the one hand where he 3x pot jammed the river with a flush against my capped range, but I do (hero trivially folded and V severely valuecut himself that hand). Nor am I sure if he remembers this other hand where he cold 4b me from the SB and getting me to fold pre with {KJs} when I had light 3b an EP opener (hero obv didn't show, but getting someone to fold after 3b vs an EP open should be a fairly significant piece of data IMO).
So even though he's got some leaks IMO he's very tough to play against and a very good poker player.
I think there's possibly room for improvement on all streets:
Pre: Prob should be going 4x pre
Flop: Pretty sure this is the right sizing for my range on such a dry texture. I'm not 3betting a linear range outside of {77/88+, AQs+, AKo} (i.e. I'll have KTs, and QJs, and some mixed combos of what can prob be considered by most to be "air" as well so I should arrive OTF with more "air" than most, none of which wants to go very large and futhermore his range should be pretty weak given how wide he's likely flatting pre and my fat value doesn't wanna go too large in that case either so b25% seems right but not sure. I can def be convinced to go b50%.
On a side note, what's the best way to attack guys like this with 3b's? Let mr be clear: he doesn't scare me one bit and I have no qualms 3betting like {K8s} vs him if he's gonna float me with {K3s} or whatever but is it best vs this kind of player to just reign it in with 3bs? I've tested this spot with two different ranges:
3b Range 1: non-linear
I understand if this range makes me look as ******ed as V can look, but the thing is if he's open/calling as wide as I think then some of these hands are technically thin value, and furthermore we're going arrive in this preflop spot with a full range, can we really just be content with folding all these potentially good light 3bs and yielding our .5bb almost always?
What's a flatting range look like here? Is the answer "flat nothing"?
Range 2: linear
A more traditional 3b range. Pretty sure these hands are all slamdunk 3bs but the only think I'm sure of is I'm actually not sure of anything anymore.
Turn: Seems like a pretty ****ty card for my range and a high-freq check spot for me, allowing V to bluff his floats and setting up potential x/r with overpairs, sets, FDs etc. but also giving me the option to set traps with my least vulnerable hands which also gives the 99, etc portion of my range the cushion it needs since I doubt 99 can be considered any more than a nice bluffcatcher OTT and on many rivers. Think we can argue for x/r occasionally with 99 for protection. Feel like most of my range here is still in the vicinity of A-high or worse thus the high freq check strat.
River. Seems like a toss up, V undoubtedly arrives at river with flushes and I do think he can go for thin value with Tx but he can certainly be bluffing (Ax that floated, Q9, QJ, J8, J9, and 76 all come to mind as natural bluffs for V) and furthermore hero should have flushes or his own not to mention overpairs so...toss up?
Actually really tempted to call because we have a blocker and **** this guy but was folding prudent?