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12-30-2023 , 11:21 PM

suchwinmuchprofit

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 174

iPoker, Hold'em No Limit - 0.50 kr./1.00 kr. (10nl usd equivalent) - 4 players

UTG: 218.21 kr. (218 bb)
BU: 183.65 kr. (184 bb)
SB: 121.64 kr. (122 bb)
BB (Hero): 125.00 kr. (125 bb)

Pre-Flop: (1.50 kr.) Hero is BB with A♣ Q♣
UTG raises to 2 kr., 1 fold, SB calls 1.50 kr., Hero 3-bets to 12 kr., UTG 4-bets to 22 kr., 1 fold, Hero calls 10 kr.

Flop: (46 kr.) 8♥ 7♣ K♣ (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks

Turn: (46 kr.) K♠ (2 players)
Hero bets 33 kr., UTG raises to 66 kr., Hero calls 33 kr.

River: (178 kr.) 2♦ (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets 117.48 kr., BB (Hero) folds

Total pot: 178 kr. (Rake: 7.12 kr.)
UTG wins 170.88 kr.

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12-30-2023 , 11:58 PM

Ceres

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Mar 2019 Posts: 3,877

We can fold pre afaic. 10nl UTGs don't in general have much of a 4b bluff range

Don't love betting turn, what hands fold that X flop? Whiffed broadways that we block?

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12-31-2023 , 12:05 AM

TripleBerryJam

adept

Join Date: Oct 2023 Posts: 712

It's close pre maybe the average 10nl player screws up enough post to make it +EV

Flop check here looks like a very middling hand (QQ) or a trap to me so you really don't want to bet AQs here

Not sure what size to XC will be profitably on turn given they'll x back clubs sometimes with AA/AK

Last edited by TripleBerryJam; 12-31-2023 at 12:13 AM.

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12-31-2023 , 01:09 AM

suchwinmuchprofit

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 174

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Originally Posted by Ceres

We can fold pre afaic. 10nl UTGs don't in general have much of a 4b bluff range

Don't love betting turn, what hands fold that X flop? Whiffed broadways that we block?

It just named him UTG because we're 4 handed, but maybe CO doesn't have a 4bet bluff range either at these stakes.

My reasoning at the time was something like "maybe QQ or JJ can fold if I shove river, and if he has AK and I hit the flush I can get it in easily". As for hands that fold turn, maybe AQo, if he 4bet bluffs that?

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12-31-2023 , 01:17 AM

TripleBerryJam

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Join Date: Oct 2023 Posts: 712

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Originally Posted by suchwinmuchprofit

Oops I missed that, don't fold pre vs co

You're heavily blocking their folding range and I doubt they have JJ much here. If they have AK you're way better off checking turn.

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12-31-2023 , 01:37 AM

AskZandar

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Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 3,046

It's a red flag when someone checks a flop that's supposed to be a bet 100% of the time.

I'd check the turn expecting to only face a bet from trips, and to have 9 clean outs. maybe more sometimes.

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12-31-2023 , 01:38 AM

silky28

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Join Date: May 2019 Posts: 362

What are they 4betting with here that they check on the flop then raise you on the turn with when you have the nut and 2nd nut flush cards?

Could be quad Kings though not sure if they would raise turn with that hand when he could let you bang yourself. AK is most considering he would block none of the flush draws and either 1) wants to get value before a flush comes in and locks up betting or 2) before the flush beats him.

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