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Ace 4 in a sticky spot Ace 4 in a sticky spot

11-19-2018 , 04:29 AM
Hand played at 100 NL(6 max) with a max 80 big blind buy in. This leads to a lot of short stacks.
In this hand UTG+1 limps with 40 B.B.
Utg+2 over limps with 34 B.B.
button limps with 110 B.B.
Main villain in sb completes with 44 B.B.
Hero checks with a4 (ace of diamonds) off with 86 B.B.
Flop comes q44 with 2 diamonds and the pot is currently 5 B.B.
Hero leads for 2.6 B.B. (looking back I think I should’ve gone slightly bigger maybe around 4 B.B., let me know your thoughts)
Everyone folds except sb who calls.
Turn is the 5 of spades. The board is now double suited and the pot is now 10.2 B.B.
Sb checks, Hero bets 6 B.B. and sb calls
River is an offsuit 2 and the pot is now 22 B.B.
hero bets 10 B.B. and sb check shoves 37.3 B.B.
should hero call or fold?
My main question is will sb ever do this with 4K 4j or an air ball?
I will update you with the actual results as soon. As I can get your views about it in a vacuum. All comments are welcome. Let me know if you thought I played good/bad/terrible.
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11-19-2018 , 04:35 AM
What site do you play, I? Are hand histories available. If so, please use a hand converter as it would make this post much easier to read.

Also, this (BQ) is not the place to post 100NL hands. This is a beginner area. Top level is "around" 25NL. Try posting HERE in the future. I am moving this thread to that area now.
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11-19-2018 , 03:03 PM
So the board is Q4452 (no flush) and the SB limped pre multiway, then x-called twice and now x-raises?
It's very hard for him to have a boat (QQ doesn't limp, 55/22 shouldn't really call on the flop) or a straight (A3s/63s shouldn't float OOP on the flop unless they are specifically in diamonds, and you have the Ad). That mostly just leaves other 4x combos in his range, of which 54s is the only one that I'd be worried about. I think there's only one possible combo of that, as well. Since he has so few combos of hands that beat A4, I'd call the jam.
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11-20-2018 , 04:22 AM
Hey King Spew sorry about that I'll put my posts in the correct location from now on. I currently play on an Indian cardroom so I'll have to check if they have proper hand histories in which case i'll use them. I also play on ACR from time to time too so over there i can certainly post the hand histories.

Thanks for your post ArtyMcfly. Your thoughts were really helpful. I also called seeing as I could not figure out what value hands he/she was doing this with apart from 45. Anyway he had 55 for the turned full house so I guess he could have that as well. Though in retrospect one thing that I can't think of is what kind of bluffs he can really have. The way I played my hand it seemed really face up. Something like 4 with a high kicker. At best a full house with q4 and at worst a 3 of a kind with a king kicker. I don't know what hands he/she'd bluff into that range. But that being said I'm sure someone capable of playing 55 in that manner probably has some air balls in his range or maybe he/she might just overvalue something like 4 j or 4 10 suited.

Last edited by Ishamael47; 11-20-2018 at 04:29 AM.
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11-20-2018 , 05:04 AM
I don't think it's sticky at all, you'll see all kinds of weird hands show up here as well as a few unlikely made ones. This is a slam dunk call with the Ace kicker. The real key here is the short stacks involved.
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