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Originally Posted by Asjbaaaf
H1 looks good. You'd want to block one of the two A4s combos that are left ideally. AK makes a nice triple since you unblock all the small pps and things like 56s, 67s, 68s, which you'd hope find a fold (if not, you just print with your value portion of range) and block things like trappy AA/KK.
H2 villain should obv 4b jam with all that dead money and beating some of your calling range. Taking a flop 4way is disastrous, so closing the action with a call is not the play.
From your perspective, I think just geometric betsize the turn. You're giving free equity to all his QJs, flush draws, worse Kx, Tx (and QQ-JJ apparently). In theory, you can balance a triple well but balancing a flop raise, check turn, river jam gets very tricky. In practice, you'll exploit this weak type of play more by building the pot on each street with your strongest hands.
Thanks for a really good response.
H1- I find it tough. I like that I went for it but sometimes I think I should just give up after flop
Or flop/turn bet. I felt this opponent was the type that would call way too often with an overpair to the board or maybe even sneak a call with 77/66 in there bc they can’t fold and may just put me on a hand such as AK, AJ, KQ etc.
H2- I check turn because I feel villian isn’t calling often 3 streets. I feel if I bet turn, only hands that continue best me and maybe small percentage of draws and double floats. I think jq and fd pay us off. If scare card comes on river my attitude is I can just call his river bet and lost minimal amount when he gets there with drawy type hands. As played- I really wish I sized way down on the river- still a leak I think I have in my tourny game is getting as much value as possible when I have very strong hands: I tend to shoot for the moon with my strong hands and go for max value almost all the time. In this spot- I felt a jam looked super polarized like a nutty hand or pure air w/ a bluff trying to leverage max fold equity so I just went for the jam hoping for a crying hero call.
Bet turn is probably best though setting up a less than pot sized bet on the river when we look at their whole calling range.
Btw jack Cleveland- this $1k tournament is so soft. I know it’s table dependent but my table was so passive and players were limping. Omg for a $1k, I feel this tournament is gold. I saw some good players in the field but I feel it’s so easy to recognize who is competent if you get a bad table draw. I def recommend middle America for larger buyin tournies- me for example if I somehow make money and day 2- I feel this tourny would be much easier to win than some $400s I’ve played in vegas/ turning stone/ philly/ AC. The good player to bad player ratio is just insanely skewed to mediocre to bad players I feel: folks aren’t 3 betting enough and normally as always it’s mainly value 3 bets. Insane value.