Unknown player who hasn't caught my eye with anything in my first 10 hands at the table....cap or call?


Full Tilt Poker $2/$4 Limit Hold'em - 5 players
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Pre Flop: (1.5 SB) Hero is CO with K A
1 fold, Hero raises, 2 folds, BB 3-bets, Hero calls

Flop: (6.5 SB) Q K 3 (2 players)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero calls

Turn: (6.25 BB) A (2 players)
BB bets, Hero calls

River: (8.25 BB) K (2 players)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero

[x] Hero has the virtual nuts

[x] Hero only loses to exactly one hand combination

[x] Hero should raise turn

And I would do anything for love, but I won't just call that.

I'm so raising this turn and the river is a very simple cap if this ain't a level

Is everyone a level 1 thinker, or am I just giving too much credit to a 2/4 player who 3 bet out of the BB, 3 bet the flop, and 3 bet the river...

Yes you are def giving way to much credit.

+1

+1

BTW you only need 51% equity to cap since you can't be 5 bet.
Even if you narrow his range to AA and QQ only its still a cap since there's only one combo of AA and 3 combos of QQ.

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12 games 0.005 secs 2,400 games/sec

Board: Qs Kc 3c As Kd
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 83.333% 75.00% 08.33% 9 1.00 { AhKs }
Hand 1: 16.667% 08.33% 08.33% 1 1.00 { AA, QQ, 33, AKs, KQs, AKo, KQo }



Here's a slightly more conservative stove:

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7 games 0.001 secs 7,000 games/sec

Board: Qs Kc 3c As Kd
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 71.429% 57.14% 14.29% 4 1.00 { AhKs }
Hand 1: 28.571% 14.29% 14.29% 1 1.00 { AA, QQ, AKs, KQs, AKo }

and a less conservative stove would include things like JT, K7, etc . . .


odds that he's a maniac >>>>>>>>> odds that he has AA

This kind of illustrates the difference between you and me. I post threads about the merits of 3 street call downs with the 5th nut king high. You post threads about the merits of capping second boat

Seriously I don't understand more action.

Fold please.

you should go at least 6 bets before you even start thinking of calling

My thought is I would definitely cap preflop since most players' 3-bet range is well below AK and you have position. I like the flop play as I feel we are only losing one small bet of value against the hands we're ahead of, saving one against the hands we're behind and inducing some river barrels when his draw doesn't come through that otherwise would fold if we had the lead. I would, however, raise the turn. We are now ahead of KQ and we have a number of other hands drawing dead that had outs before. There just seems like too much value to pass up. We also have a few outs against the few hands that are ahead of us. Unimproved, I would have just called on the turn. River I can't ever not cap. I don't see why AA is any more likely than QQ. 33, TJ, KQ, and even a lower king could be in there also.

when i was at the borgota in AC, i was playing my first 2-4 game, and a similar hand game up like this. It was 7 handed and i raised in EP w/ K10o. The board was KK 10, 4 Q. It was Heads up, and my opponent just passively called two streets w/ trips, and then we had a raise fest on the river. The dealer explained to me that when its heads up there is no cap. I thought my opponent had AJ, so being the smart poker player i am (just learned how to play not even two weeks before the trip), i raised it like 10 times before almost all of our stacks were in. I had around 34 dollars left before i announced that i'd be merciful by just calling and saving him money. He flipped overs his cards and then:



/unrelated pointless story

On the river, our hand looks like K5 to villain so he is going to hit back with KQ/QQ. As has already been pointed out, QQ alone is enough to justify a cap. Since he's an unknown who could be spewing, I agree with zomg that this is a 6-bet. Also, thank you for getting crappy 90s songs stuck in my head yet again. That video more than made up for the bad song though.

Distajo, I enjoyed that story because that is exactly how I played when I was newish. Afterwards, I would remind myself that I was an excellent player who simply took a bad beat without thinking twice.

Ok, I guess I am giving way too much credit to an unknown 2/4 player taking that super strong line. If it was someone I have played before and had a note on that said "Will 3 bet AJ/99 out of BB" or something like that, clearly my line changes.

Results:

This guy could easily have KQ.

raise the turn, cap the river

+1 to hip

-1 to the thread title

I would 6b/call.