Pre: I would limp behind given hand strength and vpips infront. If A then always iso raising, but making my iso raise size bigger.
Flop: I check, don't need to protect against anything except 99-JJ and we hold a 9, and don't expect to get 3 streets from those hands either, which are the hands you are targeting if you bet flop.
Turn: As played I fold
River: Definitely folding to river jam. Only 15 hands on villain but you can make a general assumption he's on the passive side playing 40/6
Think I would rather play a 1 street game with this hand.
I am still learning the great game myself, but are we too nitty considering a fold there? it doesnt seem likely that we are beating alot, and we're really only looking for backdoor hearts and broadway draws. Which I dont think we are getting the odds to call on the flop. I would also like a better players input
we have top pair, position, backdoor flushdraws and great bluffing opportunities with the TT blockers in the event a straightening card hits the turn or river. on such a dry flop he can't have very much so often enough he'll check turn and we regain control of the betting. i'm not folding.
Preflop: Hero is MP with A K 6 A
UTG folds, Hero raises to $0.35, CO raises to $0.60, 3 folds, Hero raises to $1.95, CO calls $1.35
Flop: ($4.05) 2 6 5 (2 players)
Hero ?
Std b/c vs unknown?
Note that he just reclicked pre, so we're deeper than usual. How much does it change the situation if we don't block a 6?
My personal thoughts are that potting is good bc your villain likely doesn't hit that flop that well given pre flop action, he might have AKsxx or something like that so he either makes a bad call or folds.
The hard part about this spot for me is that I'm up against multiple villains. Both checking to me OTF and Turn. OTF I figure it is possible that both V's miss but unlikely. I turn two pair but more straights are made. Do I check OTT and give both V's another opportunity to improve or should I b/f here seeing as I'm either ahead or way behind?
Preflop: Hero is MP with 4 6 A A
UTG raises to $0.06, Hero raises to $0.21, 4 folds, UTG raises to $0.66, Hero raises to $2.01, UTG raises to $5.52, Hero calls $3.51
Is this standard getting it in so deep pre flop with double suited Aces? Villain had won his stack by 5 betting all in pre flop with 3457os. But when i move up it'sunlikely villains will be getting this many blinds in pre with villains hand so would probably be better just flatting to save villain folding all his bluffs?
Last edited by redlineftw; 05-31-2017 at 10:22 AM.
if he 6-bets you have an easy shove all-in (because you aces, pretty decent ones at that). if he calls your 5-bet you have an easy flop shove since you'll have < one pot sized bet left (which means shove for value 100% of the time, no matter what the flop is). if he shoves before you get to act, the same applies. call the all-in.
Since equities run close, it's often a positive to fold your opponents' bluffs pre. Even against the very best AA** hand (AAKKds) we are still 46.37%. Against single suited AA we are flipping/ahead in equity. Get all the money in preflop that you can.
Results: $0.61 pot ($0.03 rake)
Final Board: 6 6 A 5 4
BB mucked and lost (-$0.30 net)
Hero showed 2 A K Q and won $0.58 ($0.28 net)
I don't really know that much about what i'm doing in PLO at this point. This is BB's first hand at the table. 1/2 pot fine? And do you try for some value on the end, or is that too thin? Or would you go for value against a fish but check against a good player?
I think you play the hand well. I'd bet 3/4 pot as I expect us to be ahead on the flop and turn, by the river I'm not sure if he calls with worse so I'd check here like you did.
Flop:(12 BB, 3 players) 4 J T SB bets 11.4 BB, Hero raises to 45.6 BB, fold, SB raises to 95 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 49.4 BB
Turn:(202 BB, 2 players) J
River:(202 BB, 2 players) K
Spoiler:
SB shows A 3 4 A (Two Pair, Aces and Jacks)
(Pre 66%, Flop 42%, Turn 55%) Hero shows 9 K Q 9 (Straight, King High)
(Pre 34%, Flop 58%, Turn 45%) Hero wins 191.9 BB
The SB, from this hand, is really bad, especially post-flop. I have a lot of reasons to believe they will be leading here very lightly. I am only slightly worried about UTG, as they have been seeing nearly every flop but folding unless they hit. I suppose that I should have considered that I would be pot committed no matter what after a raise. I raise suspecting that SB might spaz out with a random hand, and when UTG folds then SB moves in, I think I have to call (although I don't like the possible flush draw being out there).
Note: I probably wouldn't raise against most players. I would prefer to call and see a turn, as my hand isn't really that strong and it is further weakened by the clubs.
Anyone know what in general a fold to 3b after opening % should look like for a winning PLO player? I think I have been calling way too often after doing some database review
I know I should avoid pre...to not put myself in such a spot...but do we jam the flop as its likely to hit our range from the button than the original raiser. I was concerned about the cold caller....also, do we ever fold the turn??
Turn: ($11.61) Q (3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, MP bets $6.13 and is all-in, Hero calls $6.03 and is all-in, BB calls $0.28 and is all-in
River: ($23.95) 8 (3 players, 3 are all-in)
Spoiler:
Results: $23.95 pot ($1.02 rake)
Final Board: 6 5 3 Q 8
Hero showed K 7 8 J and lost (-$9.90 net)
BB showed 9 T 2 A and lost (-$4.15 net)
MP showed 3 A Q 6 and won $22.93 ($13.03 net)
I know I should avoid pre...to not put myself in such a spot...but do we jam the flop as its likely to hit our range from the button than the original raiser. I was concerned about the cold caller....also, do we ever fold the turn??
seems like you're thinking about this in a way that doesn't make sense.
either
a) you're 3betting wayyy too wide vs. an EP open if you actually hit this board frequently enough to have it hit your range more than EP's
or
b) you're confusing what your SB 3bet range looks like vs. your SB cold calling range against an EP open
and yea just fold pre, this shouldn't be in your 3bet range (you're behind a decent EP opening range, amongst other reasons not to 3bet), and calling this from the SB is probably losing money too
what hands do we beat that he c/c's 2 streets with and fires into us on this river? sure, it might be an occasional (or not so occasional) brainfart driving him to do this with 4 bananas, but calling here seems spew imo.