C$1 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (UTG): 119.58 BB
UTG+1: 237.74 BB (VPIP: 38.30, PFR: 6.38, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 142)
MP: 102.6 BB (VPIP: 21.90, PFR: 9.52, 3Bet Preflop: 4.52, Hands: 875)
MP+1: 135.76 BB (VPIP: 18.60, PFR: 6.53, 3Bet Preflop: 4.36, Hands: 1,110)
CO: 118.9 BB (VPIP: 25.38, PFR: 4.23, 3Bet Preflop: 0.98, Hands: 264)
BTN: 92 BB (VPIP: 20.88, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 1.82, Hands: 462)
SB: 17.08 BB (VPIP: 18.14, PFR: 1.40, 3Bet Preflop: 1.22, Hands: 215)
BB: 96.98 BB (VPIP: 55.32, PFR: 4.26, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 47)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 9s 7s
Hero raises to 2.25 BB, UTG+1 calls 2.25 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 1.25 BB

Flop : (7.25 BB, 3 players) Ts Ad Ac
BB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 checks

Turn : (7.25 BB, 3 players) 8c
BB checks, Hero checks, UTG+1 bets 3.62 BB, fold, Hero raises to 15 BB, UTG+1 calls 11.38 BB

River : (37.25 BB, 2 players) Js
Hero bets 50 BB, UTG+1 raises to 100 BB, Hero ???

UTG+1 wins 133.75 BB
0.5 BB was deducted from the pot for the jackpot.


Hello everyone, Hopefully the formating of this post isn't horrendous. I am wondering about my line on this hand. 97s is definitely a fold UTG, especially against this villain who is calling 38+ to my immediate left.

I understand this, and will make sure I don't do the same mistake, I was on auto-pilot and in said room there is alot of pre-flop folds and nits usually, also there are a few fish like in the BB right now that I take advantage on with hands that can make strong hands a fair amount of time. It also explains my weak 2.25X sizing, people respect the raise like a 3X open in the room, fold alot to cbets. Doesn't excuse my spew open, but it is what it is.

Once we get passed my open, lets go on the flop. I would be opening AT suited a fair amount of time, and also would be opening AJ+, small aces, and TT. I will have some check-backs on this board not 100% frequency, but somewhat higher frequency than alot of other boards, (AJ-, AT) and so it makes sense to check alot of the time here. We have a range advantage over villain but he flats nearly all my opens and I realize that later, so really we can put him on anything ranging from 66+ (excluding KK/AA), and AXs (excluding AK).

Villain has been C-betting alot when checked to twice, and so I think we can attack this turn with a fairly large bet, also polarizing his range to AX and fullhouses, removing bluffs that actually have showdown equity against our hand. Also when we make a straight our hand is fairly disguised and we can expect villain to calldown with AX and re-raise some fullhouses.

Once we hit the straight card on the river I'm not sure I like my sizing. I think we probably want to be overbetting with a more polarized range fullhouses//Bluff, or we would be overbetting too much. Regardless I chose to overbet and villain repots to put me almost effectively all-in. What do we do in this situation?

Understandably this is a spew, even writting down the hand I realize all the mistakes I made in the hand and probably is automatic fold on the river, but I want to know if my interpretation of the hand is correct? I think correct way of playing the hand would've been:
Fold pre, check-fold flop, check-fold turn, check-call river.

Looking back on the hand I would much prefer TX as a bluff hand on the turn, and TJs,T9s, as river bluffs as I shouldn't have T8s here, although I would here considering my 97s open. TT, AA, JJ, AJ, AT, A8 for value.

Happy to hear what you have to say.

Sorry tldr. Yup fold pre. Awkward situation post vs multiple opponents. River seems gross.

If this is 50c/$1 bet fold otr; 5c/10c bc imo. If you make a small bet and he raises can we say that he's only doing that with full house and kq combos? That's why I asked the stakes. Not sure if a passive 100nl would even shove with kq here and trip aces. But a micro donk would. .

As played - The problem I am running into is if we donk shovel he's calling with a small range of Ax half of which beat you. If you check shove you fold out that range that you beat. Otoh just check calling seems weak and if he checks back that sucks too. So I rationalize the bet call bet fold depending on stakes.

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I'm not sure I'm reading your post correctly. You would check/shove turn?

The pot obviously is not big enough for this and we are too deep, maybe I am just reading this wrong.

Did you mean river?

Forgot to mention that I said block bet because if we check and he shoves that's a horrible situation for us. By betting small when we have all the nutter buttered combos in our range forces him to play honestly.

Also worth a mention your check raise ott narrows his range to just ace combos. I don't think he's calling with KQ or even JJ there which is why I like it.

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I corrected my post what you quoted is incorrect by me. Sorry for the confusion.

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Got it, yeah re-read your post. It is 100NL (0.5/1$)

His stats are misleading, hes not a passive fish (Badreg), he calls almost 100% of his range and likes to play post flop and try to exploit. Hes not exceptionally spewy from what I've seen. I have not seen him show up with a bluff yet, but hes very active pre-flop and post-flop so I feel he either gets extremely lucky with his spots or has been running super hot. (only 250 hands)

As for his value range, with the price I am getting if he can include any AX range in there I would obviously call, but I just can't wrap my head around him every valuing AX. Our Check/raise, bet 1.5X pot is so nutted, I can't believe him putting us on anything other than bluff // fullhouse.

What I hate about folding is that our hand is so well hidden, I was confident we would get a call from all his AX. There are no flush, straight is unlikely. Once he re-raised me on the river, I realized there was KQ that also got there which he can put me on.

Although I would CBET alot of KQ, most players don't think on that level so I have to realize that he can put me on KQ.

his river tank raise really confused me, it was extremely gross, I almost vomited, and I folded.

Looking at GTO, clear fold, 97 has to be the bottom of our value range.

Who knows what he had.