Played this hand on Pokerstars 2NL Zoom. The outcome was obviously good but my question is was the hand played well or should I play this spot different in the future.

I did not cbet, I did not raise checkraise the turn and the variance on the river is very high I guess. The all in on the river feels also more like a bluff than a value raise given the prior action even though i beat some weaker hands that could call.

I am also interested what the actual GTO line would have been.

So what is your opinion?

Thanks for your time and help!



PokerStars - $0.02 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 373.5 BB
SB: 99 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 125 BB
Hero (MP): 117 BB
CO: 238 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K A

fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, CO calls 3 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (7.5 BB, 2 players) 9 T 7
Hero checks, CO bets 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB

Turn: (17.5 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero checks, CO bets 12.5 BB, Hero calls 12.5 BB

River: (42.5 BB, 2 players) A
Hero checks, CO bets 26.5 BB, Hero raises to 96.5 BB and is all-in, fold

Hero wins 92 BB

Personally would just call the river bet. You have good showdown value and you block the nuts. He probably won't fold hands that beat you (unless you have strong reads on him). I think most players at these stakes wouldn't even fold 2 pair. I also don't think you would get value from worse hands. What hands that you beat do you think would call? I guess KQ or KK might be possible, but even that I'm not sure of (and you block these hands).

If you bluff I would do so on the turn, as you don't have showdown value yet but you do have the ace of spades.

If the river wouldn't have been an ace I think the river bluff would have made more sense. (And calling the turn only seems to make sense if you plan to bluff the river, unless it's an ace or king.)

Thank you for your thoughts. Makes sense to just call it down on the A river. I agree that a checkraise on the turn is the better route to take since i still have plenty nut outs. On the river I felt like I was behind and had to turn the hand into a bluff since I block nut straight and flush. My experience tells me that on these stakes villain is either extremely tight or loose, so that is why I took the gamble.
Do you think AKo has enough SD value to win quite a bit here?

Given your pot odds you only need to win less than 30% of the time to make profit from a call. Without a read on your opponent I would assume AK is ahead of more than 30% of his range, especially since you block a lot of obvious value hands.