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Facing strange line with top pair turned trips Facing strange line with top pair turned trips

09-29-2022 , 07:49 PM
This hand is from Ignition 10NL earlier tonight. Not downloaded to my HUD yet so forgive the typed out hand history.

Relatively new to this table so no significant stats or reads or notes on villain. Seemingly has not gotten out of line.

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Villain is UTG+1 ($14.21 starting stack)

Hero is BB ($16.71 starting stack)

Villain opens to $0.30

Hero calls BB with Kh9h

Flop: Kd Td 5c (Pot: $0.62)

Hero checks

Villain bets $0.70

Hero calls

Turn: Kd Td 5c Ks (Pot: $1.95)

Hero checks

Villain bets $0.70

Hero calls (?)

River: Kd Td 5c Ks 4s (Pot $3.30)

Hero checks

Villain bets $1.10

Hero calls (?)

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Honestly not sure about my action on all three streets here. Pre-flop obviously standard. Villain overbets flop to start. I would think I have to call all of my Kx here, right? It's a bit uncomfortable though, as I don't have any meaningful backdoor draws, and if I make two pair QJ completes.

Turn is a great card obviously, and now villain bets 1/3 pot, the same size bet as on flop. It's a wet board, do you ever raise with a mediocre trips here? Try and get called by a combo draw or AA? I chose to call as we are quite deep and villain's line has confused me. He is repping a huge hand on the flop, so maybe now he is trying to induce a raise with a full house?

River is a brick, and villain bets 1/3 pot again. It's hard to imagine him doing this with AA, so now it looks like he either has nothing or a hand that is better than K9.. which means my hand is just a call, right? If villain has a better hand that K9 though, this seems like a pretty awful sizing.

Thoughts? Thanks guys.

Last edited by Dan GK; 09-29-2022 at 07:58 PM.
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10-01-2022 , 10:57 AM
Well I would probably lead the river modestly maybe at least half pot to avoid a check back and folding to a raise. As played probably just calling now.
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10-01-2022 , 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by nonsimplesimon
Well I would probably lead the river modestly maybe at least half pot to avoid a check back and folding to a raise. As played probably just calling now.
I like this idea, not something I had considered. Seems preferable to raising the turn. Gets value from AA certainly. It doesn't allow him to bluff missed draws, but it seems somewhat unlikely that villain would bluff this river with a missed draw after I call the flop overbet and continue on the turn. Obviously people at this stake tend to underbluff rivers anyway.

I will just post the results of this hand since it's been a couple days without much response. Villain had KTs. So he flopped top two pair, turned the nuts, and basically won the minimum from trips.

I posted this hand because I really felt like I wanted to fold flop facing the overbet with little prospect of improving. And then the turn sizing confused me, and made me want to raise. Odd hand. Pretty good result for me as played.
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