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Night before I chopped the main event with Villain. He ended up winning the trophy/4500 up top after being a 6:1 dog. Got lucky 3/4 times. He’s a very good player, regular, pro, whatever….

He’s opening slightly wider than GTO here imo based on experience


In retrospect I wish I 3bet pre, but as played raise flop the play here? We have a little under 40bigs. He’s cbetting here almost always IMO with everything.


PokerStars Hand #238745805242: Tournament #3202367678, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level XXII (10000/20000) - 2022/09/27 21:51:34 ET
Table '3202367678 15' 8-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: ValueBluffRiver (235990 in chips)
Seat 2: redactedcartel (756143 in chips)
Seat 4: RonBurgundy1316 (414174 in chips)
Seat 5: JettJett19 (810452 in chips)
Seat 6: Btothenelly (770800 in chips)
Seat 8: TheNobember_Rut (736140 in chips)
ValueBluffRiver: posts the ante 2500
redactedcartel: posts the ante 2500
RonBurgundy1316: posts the ante 2500
JettJett19: posts the ante 2500
Btothenelly: posts the ante 2500
TheNobember_Rut: posts the ante 2500
TheNobember_Rut: posts small blind 10000
ValueBluffRiver: posts big blind 20000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Btothenelly [6d Kd]
redactedcartel: folds
RonBurgundy1316: folds
JettJett19: raises 20000 to 40000
Btothenelly: calls 40000
TheNobember_Rut: folds
ValueBluffRiver: folds
*** FLOP *** [7c 2c 5d]
JettJett19: bets 60000
Btothenelly: calls 60000
*** TURN *** [7c 2c 5d] [8h]
JettJett19: bets 120000
Btothenelly: raises 548300 to 668300 and is all-in

Preflop is mostly a fold and I especially dont like flatting with a 12bb stack in the bb. If you want to defend bc you think he is too wide then I would 3bet.

This is a pretty good hand to bluff raise the flop with but I also think on this board we arent doing a ton of raising since we have no two pair combos and possibly not even all the sets, depending on how you play them pf. So a call is prob fine.

As played on the turn the 8 only helps us with value if we have 88, 78s, or 98s so I dont think the jam reps much for value and your range here is probably draw heavy (which explains why you got called by a 7).

I think this would work better as a c/r Flop-jam Turn, but stacks may be too small to pull it off. You're getting zero credit for an over-pair since you didn't bump it PF. No credit for 78/set here either. Whatever your history is with the V he took the 'it's hard to make a pair' line here and was right this time. GL

Agreed to both posts. The BB stack is reason I didn’t 3bet, but I guess that’s a leak, and I should be 3betting/fold more with this hand vs BB stack. Raising flop is the way to go since I’d likely raise flop a lot with my nutted hands. As noted, I’m not repping much. He yanked his entire timer, but this one didn’t get through. Wish I raised flop lol.

Let me ask, what would be the play here if I was the BB instead of Button?

And like you said, vs this Villian I’m probably going to be 3betting every pair pre which is another reason he can call easier here since a lot of sets aren’t in my calling range

If you are in the bb, then it is a standard c/r flop and barrel off this turn card. Reason being is that you are going to have all the suited two pair combos and all the sets. Plus you should be c/ring some top pair hands and 88 or 99 hands if you dont 3bet those.

Put simply, your calling range in the bb hits the flop way better than your calling range from the btn, which is much more weighted toward high cards.

I wouldn't be too concerned with the BB's stack - he has no FE whether you call or 3bet so he has to fold maybe 90% of hands. The turn shove you're not really representing much of anything and I'm not trying to get him to fold an overpair.

I think 3-betting pre is preferable to calling, especially if CO is opening wider than average. I'd be more inclined to call pre with hands where I could be dominating him, and 3-betting the top of my range as well as hands like this.

I think, building on what others have suggested, the problem with the turn shove here is that your hand likely looks like a combo draw of some kind rather than a strong made hand. It is theoretically possible you would jam turn with 2 pair / set hands given how wet the board is, but even then two pair might still make call a better option given how deep you are this late in the tournament. On a board this low your flatting range pre doesn't likely include two pair hands (except 87s) or made straights, so it's really only sets.

Second pair might feel a little weak to call a turn shove with, but thinking it through and with the benefit of hindsight, it seems like this board is so draw-heavy that it makes sense he's not folding anything he's betting for value.