[HIGH] top two + gutter in position multiway
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 5,531
v1 in this hand is a classic underground dealer / player archetype - capable of playing decent but also capable of going on monkey tilt, probably started dealing to cover his debts, action junkie playing a $1k MTT on his tablet while also trying to crush this game. he sits with ~$4k but is prob stuck more than that
v2 is an ok reg, on the passive side, who is losing and therefore chasing a fair bit. hero has $1600 to start the hand and v2 barely covers
v1 raises the $15 button straddle to $45, v2 calls, hero calls with AKJT with JT of diamonds. one other caller on the button.
flop (180) KT2 with two hearts. v1 leads for 150, v2 calls pretty quickly (so he probably has a draw of some kind), hero calls, button folds. although v1 can open pretty wide, by leading into field for close to pot here he should have a pretty strong range, i am getting crushed by some of his value hands and he will also have some huge draws. but don't think we can fold.
turn (630) 3 putting backdoor spades out. checks to hero, who now starts to think that top 2 should be good here a lot of the time and bets 250 to charge the gazillion draws available and hopefully check back a lot of rivers. both players call. i do have the ace of spades and can probably bomb some spade rivers as a bluff.
river (1380) bink Q of clubs, v1 asks hero how much he has left and then it checks to hero who bets 400. i am trying to get called by worse straights or maybe some oddly played sets. against these two v's it feels like i can get looked up pretty light with this sizing, and neither should be that strong after checking here. if v2 is waiting to c/r the same hand, maybe this allows v1 to at least hero call 400 if he's feeling suspicious.
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 28,054
Gotta bet the turn bigger.