All Notable Hands - 500k Ruthie's Round-Up

Replay Poker Hand Review
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Hand 1
-3bet! It’s so profitable :smiley:

Hand 2
-see @napkin_holder sooo hard to misplay nut flush draw :wink:

Hand 3
-a little luck, a little thin value. look what called our river bet! max value, or close to it.

Hand 4
-some arguments for a cbet, but probably too big here. no reason to continue against minraise and end up pot committed. first major error :frowning:

Hand 5
-kapow!

Hand 6
-why mess around with dinky sizes when we can get this kind of action playing for stacks preflop?
-effective stacks about 15bb, we should be happily shoving AQ+/TT+

Hand 7
-Jh9h
-if ever there was a flop to donk bet from the SB, this looks as good as any: if we get raised, we’re happy to go with our hand with this much equity. And there’s a good chance we got a better hand to fold.
-if they call behind we can barrel plenty of turns and rivers even if we miss, with enough left to play for that a jam still has plenty of fold EQ

Hand 8
-QhTs
-kinda marginal preflop but I mean we bought the button with a limp, so how bad can it be I guess
-very disappointing, obviously, to see a fold on the turn here. but I don’t think we can go too much smaller than 40%, and the pot is just too small to be checking trips very often. plenty of action killing rivers, too. I think we pat ourselves on the back for resisting the urge to check and try not to be results-oriented.
-at the same time, this seems to justify limping quite wide from CO/BTN at this depth. we don’t even need to raise pre that often if it’s this easy to realize equity post flop

Hand 9
-that’s a wrap, folks!

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SUMMARY:

-play hands in position, it’s really profitable!
-when OOP, exercise pot control and look to attack boards that favor your range/hand with smaller sizes
-it’s easier to make a mistake by overplaying mid pockets than it is to be overly conservative; with overcards on the board, passive lines can’t be too bad
-if you have a premium, you should mostly raise big preflop! people will get it in way behind :smiley:

oh, and I always forget to mention bc I take it for granted, but the most important part of the strat by far:
-play mostly good cards! I lasted an hour and despite making an effort to get involved and mix it up, I only played about a dozen hands.

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Hand #7

This is not a board you get to lead on in theory. Even in practice, check/raise has to be the superior play. You get extra chips when they c-bet with not much (like they should), and if it goes check/check, you get to bluff the turn for cheap.

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That all makes sense, yeah. IDK I guess I’m reacting to how people way overfold to donk bets, I figure I’m rarely ahead on flop and it’ll check around a decent %. Plus I want to start building a pot and seize the initiative for later streets.

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I’m pretty sure they do overfold to donk bets too, but not nearly as much as they overfold to check/raise (as they likely should, because that’s basically always a set).
I don’t think you’re going to see many checks from the PFR on a K high board though, and when you do, it’s going to be trash that you can fold out cheaply on the turn.

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In practice, I think a lot of these guys are prepared to read c/r as a flush draw if it’s available on the flop tho

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Absolutely, it’s why we should only x/r our sets on flush draw boards normally. Still, what hands are calling the x/r that aren’t also calling the donk lead?
For most of the field it doesn’t really make a difference, but for the few players who are aware, the donk bet on that board looks way more full of it than a check raise will.

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