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C/C 2P MW on monotone flop?

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02-17-2018 , 05:09 PM

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journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 342

I think this is standard, can I get a wp? obv just calling the v small turn bet in the off chance we boat up...

PokerStars - $0.05 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP+1: 73.8 BB
CO: 100 BB
BTN: 80 BB
Hero (SB): 162.2 BB
BB: 112.4 BB
UTG: 103.8 BB
UTG+1: 47 BB
MP: 102.2 BB

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 9

fold, UTG+1 calls 1 BB, fold, MP+1 calls 1 BB, fold, BTN calls 1 BB, Hero calls 0.6 BB, BB checks

Flop: (5 BB, 5 players) 3

Hero checks, BB checks, UTG+1 checks, MP+1 checks, BTN checks

Turn: (5 BB, 5 players) T

Hero checks, BB bets 3.2 BB, UTG+1 calls 3.2 BB, fold, BTN calls 3.2 BB, Hero calls 3.2 BB

River: (17.8 BB, 4 players) J

Hero checks, BB bets 13.8 BB, UTG+1 calls 13.8 BB, BTN calls 13.8 BB, fold

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02-17-2018 , 06:27 PM

Brussels Sprout

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Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,778

Ok I've seen quite a few of your hands here now that you've posted and in general you're playing far too passively. You need to bet more when you likely have the best hand.

Specifically here you have flopped 2 pair here multi-way. You have blockers to sets and it's unlikely that anyone has flopped the flush (for no other reason then that flopping flushes is rare). However the turn card could bring all sorts of pain: Any 6, any 8, any 10, any J and especially any heart is going to make your hand seem a lot weaker. For that reason I'd bet the flop and I'd bet big. Allowing 4 people to see a turn card multiplies the chances of being drawn out on by 4.

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02-18-2018 , 11:23 AM

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journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 342

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Originally Posted by Brussels Sprout

I appreciate your advice Brussels, thank you! Bare with me while I air my logic for this play .....so the strategy that I am following advocates against donk betting ever basically in order primarily to protect our OOP checking range, so, as I don't really wish to deviate from this, if I were to bet this flop then it would be a X/Raise. At the time that was my plan. However, it did check around, and one of the many cards that i'd prefer not to see hit and I decided to give up there. I only called the turn bet because everyone else did and the odds were so enticing to fish for a boat.

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02-18-2018 , 11:53 AM

Brussels Sprout

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Originally Posted by pokerbetts

I'm not sure what you think a donk bet is but nobody raised pre-flop therefore you wouldn't be donking if you led out on the flop.

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02-18-2018 , 12:23 PM

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journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 342

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Originally Posted by Brussels Sprout

I'm not sure what you think a donk bet is but nobody raised pre-flop therefore you wouldn't be donking if you led out on the flop.

fair point

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