This is in 3rd ronud of the 5HR LR of the beginning of the OSS Cubed event on ACR. Info on the villain is small, only have 80~ hands with him in the past.

Thoughts on the turn bet : Villain has snap minraised me 2x before in the last 2 orbits. I wanted to bet the flop as the only combinations I could think of 3-betting with in his position and flatting a 4-bet would be 88-JJ, some AK/Q/J/10 . However once I bet flop and turn and having him flat call both streets, I take AJ and 1010 out of the equation since he leaves less than a pot sized bet behind on the river. A10 could be a hand that he think he's catching a bluff with, and once that A comes on the river he could have felt his 2 pair was now ahead. As for me, that A wasn't the best of cards because I felt like my hand now became a bluff catcher. If it wasn't for the amount of bluffing i've been seeing in early stages of tournaments on ACR, I would not have called this.

Not very good with hand analysis so I apologize for the jumble above. I'm transitioning from a home game/occasional live game player to working on studying my play and analyzing situations more closely. Any thoughts on where my line of thinking is flawed would be appreciated.

Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - 30/60 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 181.12 BB (VPIP: 9.38, PFR: 7.41, 3Bet Preflop: 7.14, Hands: 34)
MP+1: 146.42 BB (VPIP: 17.50, PFR: 11.69, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 80)
MP+2: 170.92 BB (VPIP: 15.38, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 13)
CO: 169.7 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 13)
BTN: 390.8 BB (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 4.88, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 42)
SB: 228.53 BB (VPIP: 15.15, PFR: 12.90, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 33)
BB: 152.58 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 5)
Hero (UTG): 257.83 BB
UTG+1: 160.03 BB (VPIP: 38.46, PFR: 30.77, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 13)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q A

Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, fold, MP+1 raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 19 BB, MP+1 calls 12 BB

Flop: (39.5 BB, 2 players) Q T K
Hero bets 17.5 BB, MP+1 calls 17.5 BB

Turn: (74.5 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero bets 30.83 BB, MP+1 calls 30.83 BB

River: (136.17 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, MP+1 bets 79.08 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 79.08 BB

The 4Bet preflop is really ambitious. You should have a fairly tight range from opening UTG and then you get 3Bet from MP. This 3Bet is already going to be fairly tight so your 4Bet is now essentially acting as a bluff and you're setting yourself up to play a huge pot OOP against a strong range.

You also overplayed your hand postflop. This board is going to hit his range pretty hard. Your hand would play much better as a check/call. You're pretty low down in your range here and you'll have loads more hands that you'd want to be Cbetting for value.

In your analysis why are you ruling out AJ/TT from his range? AJ could easily choose to slowplay his hand on the flop and turn given that you're really keen to bet at this. TT might not want to raise because it might only get action from QQ and KK.

Appreciate the response, this is exactly the kind of questions I should be posing to myself while in these. Looking over this again with your insight I understand what you mean by my 4-bet being a bluff against the tighter range of his position against an UTG raise. Also leading out into him twice post flop with middle pair I can see being extremely exploitable as that does hit a lot of the 3-bet ranges he could be holding.

My reasoning behind putting him on such a weak range that doesn't include AJ is that he's shown a few hands previously that were bluffs/ weak pairs that he stuck on post flop. Even with this, I still don't think I'm in a profitable margin to 4-bet with that hand. I think a better line would have been to call that 3-bet and keep both of our ranges wider going into the flop. Giving him room to make a mistake or for me to find out where my hand holds up without committing to much.

I've been trying to emphasize learning how to play post flop and working on my positional ranges for players as spots like these are avoidable and I won't put myself in situations to play a bluff catcher into potential monsters for my tourney life .

Cheers


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