Here's my butchered hand from Thursday, though after ranging it I found that my equity on the flop was higher than I'd estimated.
Loose gambler with $105 in his stack straddles for $5 UTG. I pick up K
K
in UTG+1 and raise to $20. I don't believe that I'd played a single hand for the last 45 minutes. I get 5 callers, including the blinds and the straddler.
(Pot $120) - 6 Players.
Flop A
9
6
With this many $20 callers, there is no way that I'm dodging an ace here. But I have the nut flush redraw with my K
. It's checked to me and I make a big $90 bet. Am I going to fold out a reasonable number of better hands here? Not a chance!
Folds to BTN, who is a tight straightforward player. She pushes all in for $225. Folds around to the gamblor UTG, who calls for his last $85, then back to me.
(Pot $460) - 3 Players. 2 are all-in.
I need 23% equity. I knew that I had it, but I didn't know that I had so much of it. Hand 2 is the tight, straightforward player with a nuttish range, and Hand 3 is the straddle defender, to whom I gave a very wide preflop range, as they tend to defend even wider than your average loose BB defender. This gave him all the aces, sets and two pairs and lot of baby flushes on the flop, but it still didn't boost his equity much.
Most of his loss is from BTN having only the good aces in her range and from him having all the aces in his range. Think about that the next time you want to make a loose call pre with Axo.
There's a temptation to note that it's an easy call for me, but I was the one who put myself in this spot by betting $90. If you opened $99 with 72o and someone shoved their $100 stack with AA, your call for $1 extra would be a very good one, but wouldn't excuse the original $99 bet.
I call.
(Pot $595) - 3 Players. All in effective
Turn and river both brick.
UTG shows J
4
and wins the main pot
BTN shows A
T
and wins the side pot.
Last night's results.
Flamingo: 6 hours:
+$306
Last edited by suitedjustice; 03-24-2019 at 07:00 PM.