HU SnG 1000$ on iPoker

Villain seems like a good regular who is pretty aggressive.

This happend in one of the first hand we played:

Blinds 10/20
Stacks: 1500 each

Villan raised to 60 from SB with 87
I called from the BB with AT

Flop: KK6 Pot: 120
I check
Villain bet 90
I call

Turn: J Pot: 300
I check
Villain bets 280
I call

River: 3 Pot: 860
I check
Villain check



I have earlier seen him play this hand against another player:

Blinds 10/20
Stacksize: 1500

The other player limps from the SB
Villain raises to 80 with Q2 from BB
The other player calls

Flop: Q44 Pot: 160
Villain checks
The other player bets 90
Villain calls

Turn: 3 Pot: 340
Villan checks
The other player bets 200
Villain calls

River: 5 Pot: 740
Villain checks
The other player checks





Besides those hands nothing in particular has happend in the match.

Villain has been raising 80% of he's hands from the SB, and has been raising most of my limps. He has limped himself a couple of times in which we have just played a small pot.


The actual hand
Blinds 30/60
Stacks: We both have 1500

Villain limps from the SB
Hero raise to 180 from BB with KQ
Villain calls

Flop: Q98 Pot: 360
What do you prefer to do here against the described villain?

The most standard is imo to c-bet 200'ish
If you prefer to c-bet and are faced with raise to 700 - Then what...?

( I am not confident that c-betting here is the best option versus this villain )

What's wrong with C-betting here? I see no reason not to. (But I can't beat the $1000s either)

cbet imo.
he's going to hit a gutter and/or pair a lot on this flop, and i don't see him playing his marginal hands aggressively for value (see Q44 hand).

and i don't see enough reasons to believe he's attacking the pot on weakness after your limp raise and check.

if he raises to 700 i'm getting the money in, given the worse pairs + gutshots in his range, the money already in the pot, and KK6 hand.

it almost tilts me that you play 1ks and have to post this hand 0.o

c-bet and get it in when he raises. We have 25 big blinds, top pair King kicker and a coordinated flop. Worse hands are getting it in here, namely every worse Q in his range. That in itself makes this an easy stack off.

loosing player can post

just a question of a $20/30 player. i am very curious what is your logic that brings you to the conclusion, c-betting is not best here?

if ur reasoning for checking instead of cbetting is to induce a bet from villain than how would you respond to that bet? are u planning on c/r him or flatting and hoping he barrels the turn.

if you're gonna check this flop and villain bets, the better play is to c/r instead of just flatting because there are a ton of turn cards that you would not be happy with and villain might think ur line is a bluff and would get him to play back at you and might induce a shove with air.

But the problem with checking is that he will not bet this kind of flop with his air hands a high percentage of the time because of how coordinated this flop is, and the times he does bet it with air he will just shut down on the turn and give up the pot.

judging by the way he played the Q2o hand I think he would check back pair+gutshot hands such as J9 instead of betting, which is why checking this flop isnt ur best option.

definetly cbet this flop all day, there are just too many hands that would call or raise you but would not bet if checked to.

pot it/get it in hand plays itself

Yeah this play is definitely a spot to Cbet. You don't want to give your opponent a free chance to hit something gross like an inside straight draw. Your hand is very likely best right here and you need to make him pay if he wants to stick around.

it's on ipoker
$1000 husng in ipoker = $115 on tilt

If you cbet and a Jack or ten peels off on the turn, whats the plan?

If you don't cbet and a jack or ten peels of on the turn, what's the plan?

I mean, in case you're suggesting bad turns as a reason to not cbet.

Obv if a bad card comes then proceed cautiously, but it depends on a lot of factors like other history on turns, stabs, and peel frequency/ranges, and just as simple as limping ranges.

I mean if you check he might just check back, too.