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02-13-2024 , 10:46 AM
2/5 game

Open raise 2.4BB from UTG (regular), call from MP (loose), call from BTN (loose), but not many stats on MP or BTN.

I am in Big Blind with AKo.

What would be the best play here

Last edited by mregnid; 02-13-2024 at 11:01 AM.
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02-13-2024 , 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by mregnid
2/5 game

Open raise 2.4BB from UTG (regular), call from MP (loose), call from BTN (loose), but not many stats on MP or BTN.

I am in Big Blind with AKo.

What would be the best play here
need more info... u how many blinds do the other players in the hand have behind, how many blinds do you have and why r you playing 2/5 game if you are already lost in this spot?
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02-13-2024 , 01:06 PM
Sorry, UTG has 156BB, MP has 120BB, and BTN has 85BB.

I have 207BB.

It's 2c/5c, so not big money!!

I think I should 4bet but not sure if it's best to shove!
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02-13-2024 , 01:13 PM
Christ, you saying 2/5 made me think it was live and someone had made an absurdly small opening raise... 3b seems super obvious
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02-13-2024 , 01:45 PM
Lol - so what do you reckon the best play is - 3 bet to what size or shove?
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02-13-2024 , 02:32 PM
Shoving is terrible unless you know you have some idiot in the game who will call shoves with garbage hands. All you are doing with a shove against reasonable opponents is forcing hands that you want to call (AJ, AQ, KQ, etc) to fold and getting called by something like AK, JJ+. Three bet to something like 5x the open (normally you would 3! About 3x, but you have 2 callers). Your AK is probably doing well against the loose callers’ ranges, but you don’t really want them there. Your equity takes a big hit in a four way pot; you hopefully will iso against one opponent.

If the opener 4-bets you are not be too happy, depending on how aggressively he has bet pre flop. Against a typically passive 5NL player, you can probably exploit fold - they are only going to 4 bet with premium hands, and you aren’t doing well against that range. If he is a maniac, you would 5 bet shove. Against an unknown, I’d probably call and see what happens otf. If one of the loose passive callers 4 bets, I would be pretty confident folding. They very likely trapping with a hand like AA or KK

Last edited by stremba70; 02-13-2024 at 02:38 PM.
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02-13-2024 , 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by sixfour
Christ, you saying 2/5 made me think it was live and someone had made an absurdly small opening raise... 3b seems super obvious
I got tilted at the thought of someone raising to $12 pf in a 2/5 live game. Get those $1 chips out of here and back to 1/3 where they belong.



OP: Obv a big 3bet here is the play. Somewhere around 15bb is fine.
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02-13-2024 , 05:20 PM
Your best play would be to obtain and memorize a decent set of preflop charts.
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02-13-2024 , 07:03 PM
Thanks, where would you recommend one that would help me with this situation.
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