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Originally Posted by wiijen30
Hi all,
After a long while, I grinded some Pokerstars tournaments in the past weekend. One hand especially left me wondering how it should have been played and would like to get some thoughts on it.
Below is the hand & some backround info:
- Villain stats: 29/14/0 (3bet) - Only 7 hands history in this table
- Due to short history, no specific reads - other than that the villain had done 1 or 2 steals.
- I don't remeber exactly how big the field was & how many made it to the money. Around 100 or so places paid.
- One hand prior to this one, I tripled up, won a big bounty and had a decent stack.
- At this point, there was 54 players left in the tournament.
The hand:
PokerStars - 900/1800 Ante 270 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 7 players
Hero (SB): 59.81 BB
BB: 11.92 BB
UTG: 44.85 BB
UTG+1: 17.07 BB
MP Villain: 81.69 BB
CO: 40.89 BB
BTN: 52.88 BB
7 players post ante of 0.15 BB, Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.55 BB) Hero has AdKs
MP raises to 2 BB, Hero raises to 7.05 BB, MP calls 5.05 BB
Flop(16.15 BB, 2 players)[/i] 8dAh8c
Hero bets 6.46 BB, MP calls 6.46 BB
Turn (29.07 BB, 2 players) 7c
Hero bets 11.63 BB, MP calls 11.63 BB
River (52.33 BB, 2 players) 9c
Hero checks, MP bets 35.58 BB, Hero?
When I checked on the river, I had 34,5 BB left. I think my bet sizing could have been bigger in the previous streets, could still get calls from other Ax hands. But, the Villain was thinking a long time before calling my bets, and I kinda had a bad feeling of this hand that I might be beat.
Really curious to hear how others would play this hand and what would be your line on the river? Go for a small bet like 15 BB and fold to a shove / shove yourself / check fold?
Thx in advance!
flop is obv cbet since you are crushing this board with your equity advantage, turn can go either way since your best tp pairs should be mixing, when a strategy is mixed ask yourself
1) if i check now how likely is the villain to bet his draws or worse tp?
2) will get bluffed on the river if check now(from what i know against villain and against pop)? yes/no what i want to do with my hand?
As played the hand i would have bet something like 10% otr to sqz some more value from Ax. As most people are playing i would prefer to xshove turn, most people will bet a lot more in frequency when check to them with their draws and tps