GII spot on the flop or correct fold?
Join Date: Oct 2022
Posts: 78
Hi all,
had a hand with aces recently with low SPR on the flop and I was wondering if the fold was correct.
4 handed, hero in the BB holding AhAcJd8c. I have about 60BB
UTG opens pot, BTN calls, SB fold, hero reraises pot. Only BTN calls, pot is about 32BB, BTN covers, hero has maybe 48BB left, so SPR 1.5.
Flop comes KdQs9d
Hero checks, BTN bets half pot, hero folds.
If I call I might as well have gone all in in the first place, I think his half bet pot is either straight or 2 pair, set, definitely not a bluff.
I have no FD, not backdoor FD and the board should hit him hard. The only thing going is an inside straight draw which probably beats him. Was the fold correct? Perhaps the question is trivial, but I seem to lose a lot with aces and want to make sure I am not overdoing either folding wrong or committing too often.
Thanks!
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 4,933
This is not a great spot but blocking the nuts with a gutter I pot / gii on flop. Button just called twice, there is no reason to worry that he mostly has big cards that drill this flop.
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 12,781
Just pot the flop yourself (or check to induce and gii). You are committed and you have blockers.
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 1,387
I think having the nut gutter you gotta bet/call it off. I think without the nut gutter its much closer and might be a fold, but its just a math problem.
Join Date: Oct 2022
Posts: 78
Thank you all.
I understand it seems obvious to everyone to GII. Probably messed this one up.
Perhaps I am underestimating how often he has something like 9986 or whatever else that is not very good, and overestimating that he has at least 2 pairs, FD, or even straight a lot. So I am kind of interpreting his 2 calls as something like KQJT, JT99 with or without diamonds a lot, which probably is a biased opinion due to running into such hands on some occasions.
Join Date: Apr 2011
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Some of those hands would 3b pre, especially if co and btn are deep.
Btn will have plenty of junk that whiffs or barely connects like one pair and a gutter.
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 1,387
Is this a GII without the gutter? That I think would be closer - wonder what our equity is with this hand against say 15% vs if we don't have the gutter.
