Not sure to classify villain's actions as 'good play' or 'horrible play' or 'suspicious'

Poker Stars $15+$1 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 6 players
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BTN: t1840 M = 24.53
SB: t2845 M = 37.93
Hero (BB): t1560 M = 20.80
UTG: t2895 M = 38.60
MP: t1450 M = 19.33
CO: t2910 M = 38.80

Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with 5 8
4 folds, SB calls t25, Hero checks

Flop: (t100) K 9 6 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (t100) 3 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t150, SB calls t150

River: (t400) K (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t350, SB calls t350

*** SHOW DOWN ***
BaCo35: shows [5s 8d] (a pair of Kings)
VanSuMay68: shows [7s 8s] (a pair of Kings - Nine+Eight+Seven kicker)
VanSuMay68 collected 1100 from pot

The $16 STT's on Pokerstars are probably the fiercest and most competitive arena for some of the best players on the Internet. There's no chance that villain's call here is just a bad play as the number of fish on the site has completely shriveled. I'm going to have to concur with your 3rd guess, 'suspicious', it seems like villain in this hand has infiltrated Pokerstars security and is now making hundreds laying waste to low stakes SNG's.

this is a strat forum, what is your question please? This will be locked.

Otherwise: support@pokerstars.com

I generally do the same as villain and call a bit looser with a 7 kicker..


Poker Stars $15+$1 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 8 players
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SB: t1600 M = 21.33
BB: t2750 M = 36.67
UTG: t1425 M = 19
UTG+1: t1965 M = 26.20
Hero (MP1): t1305 M = 17.40
MP2: t1545 M = 20.60
CO: t1410 M = 18.80
BTN: t1500 M = 20

Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is MP1 with 7 7
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t50, Hero calls t50, 4 folds, BB checks

Flop: (t175) Q A 3 (3 players)
BB checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero checks

Turn: (t175) Q (3 players)
BB checks, UTG+1 bets t100, Hero calls t100, BB folds

River: (t375) A (2 players)
UTG+1 bets t50, Hero calls t50

Final Pot: t475
UTG+1 shows 4 4 (two pair, Aces and Queens)
Hero shows 7 7 (two pair, Aces and Queens - Seven kicker)
Hero wins t475

Just wondering what the motivation for calling on the river is here, as there is so little he can beat.
In the hand you post I can understand you put villain on a lower pair with the action given, plus you beat any bluf.
In my hand, he does not have a bluf catcher at all, unless I have complete rags. It just didn't make any sense to me.

put yourself in his shoes. What are you checking back on that flop and then fire two barrels when the board bricks and pairs? exactly, a weak king and maybe pocket 3s. thats a pretty small range.

In the blinds I could very easily have a 6 or a 3. I've also been pretty nitty up to this point.

I guess I just can't see myself ever calling in that spot.

yeah, but would you bet a 6 or 3 twice and even for 1.5x pot on the turn?

I can't even believe you're still responding to this post or legitimately defending that call. lol

Since your contribution is 0, you might not want to respond at all.

My contribution is zero because you made a BBV thread. Here's my contribution:

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

990 games 0.005 secs 198,000 games/sec

Board: Kh 9d 6d 3h Kc
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 12.576% 12.12% 00.45% 120 4.50 { 8s7s }
Hand 1: 87.424% 86.97% 00.45% 861 4.50 { random }


This thread is stupid. Bye.

Against a reasonable range he has around 30% equity with 87s

That's true, I reevaluated my original range to include only cards lower than a 9 and excluding anything that paired the board. The way this hand plays out, Hero's range is basically polarized between quads and two unpaired cards lower than an 8 that he limped preflop, overbet the turn and then potted the river. The results make it clear that a call is in order.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

133 games 0.005 secs 26,600 games/sec

Board: Kh 9d 6d 3h Kc
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 08.647% 07.52% 01.13% 10 1.50 { KK, 87s, 85s-84s, 82s, 74s+, 72s, 54s, 52s, 42s, 85o-84o, 82o, 74o+, 72o, 54o, 52o, 42o }
Hand 1: 91.353% 90.23% 01.13% 120 1.50 { 8s7s }

I doubt he's a new Stuey Ungar, lol, he either misclicked or he can't read the board.