River jam. I struggled with this as I thought I might size down for value but ultimately I felt that if Villain had called my turn he was calling a river jam. Straight on Turn
It worked but not sure if this was all that smart. The 8 on the river brought in Q9 but reading his play he probably had a made hand like 2-pair or set. I was wrong.
What do you think of this play?
Here’s an easy one. With 14bigs I’m shoving this all day, even overtop of a strong open. AKs
On the 4 straight? I think you’re going to see most two pairs/sets raise at some point before this too. I don’t think KQ acts that quickly on the turn, but that is another hand you lose to that people will show up with sometimes. Mostly though I think you’re just trying to get value from one pair hands here. Betting small is probably the most efficient, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with jamming and hoping, especially if your gut is telling you they are going to call.
(BTW, we can’t see what they actually had)
Yuss!
88 on the BT and flat 3x. Flop 789-rb. I don’t like the board. If I had 2-pair I’d probably quit but I have a set. Villain bets about 1/3rd. JT and 99 are in his range but that’s the bottom of his range. He has a whole lot of overpair and A-bdwy here. So I rip it all-in. He calls with TT (which is open-ended : 0 !!). Thank you bricks. That was a close one.
If I am Villain and I fold open-ended overpair to the jam here am I a nit?
Whew!
JT-hearts on the big. It limps to me (including SB). I open for just under 3x. MP folds, SB calls. Flop open-ended and flush draw (sweet)! Now it is a question of stacks. I outstack SB 5:1 and Villain refuses to play ICM, hanging on. I bet exactly the stack size and get called with 2 BETTER hearts! Villain kills half of my outs. I had 15, now I have 7. I turn an 8 right out of my butt!
Lucky as hell but I still say that I played this one right. Do you agree?
Slow Play Much?
86-clb from LJ. limp pot 3-way with the blinds. Flop 22x. Checks around. Turn another 2 and gives me flush draw. I bet min just to build the pot in case the clubs come in. I have them both easily outstacked and have position. T-ht river busts my flush. I could bluff this, but I’ve seen too many fish call just because they hit a T on the river, or their 33 is there and calls. I check it back. I’m shocked that BB has … KK!! Short-stacked with KK, put money in, dammit! I should have bluffed it but I’m sure glad that I didn’t.
That was a beautiful flop for KK and no draws on the river (although completing clubs would have been super for him). Slow play 1 street, sure but not 2. All 3??? Gratz on not getting paid, bro. Am I right?
Lovely Slow Play if I do say so myself. This game had gone on long enough that I knew Villain had a tendency to overbet when I show weakness. I thought about flat-calling but I got him to pay me anyways.
I was prepared to bet the paired flop but he acted first and beat me to it. A bluff here was totally in his game so considering the stacks I Ripped it in his face. He actually hit the 8 but I still had 6 outs and caught one.
Very First Hand of PKO tournament.
Flopped 2-pair gets called by straight and both get rivered by a boat, whoa!
Then just 2 hands later Kiss 20k Goodbye and get completely screwed on the Emerald leaderboard.
Worst part is that I know that Villain well from when I first started in the freerolls. He’s wide, over-aggressive and totally rude about it.
Heads-up game for 25k. Villain limps it to me. I have KK so I’m opening this. I could trap but I want a bigger pot. If he folds to 3x, oh well. I’ve been opening 2.5x to 3x already so I’m not tipping him off. My notes on him (from an MTT previously) are that he is passive.
OMG flop! I hit my K but it’s 3 spades and I don’t block. Uyeee!
I lead for just under half. He flats. So at this point I have him on spades or spade draw. If I had spades here I’d flat for sure. Barrel into me baby!
Turn T even helps the straights here. Board is very wet. I check to see what he will do. I think that this is a mistake. If he has 1 spade, I’m letting him draw for free. Plus, if he jams I have to fold, but he is passive. He bets pot and I call perhaps a bit careless of me but I had the chips to do it and I knew that if I lost I could battle back against this passive opponent.
River a for a boat. Okay, now I’m quite sure that he has 2 spades, and 2 spaeds are calling anything here so I let it rip.
At showdown he mucked but on the replay he had 2 spades.
Now I think that my pre was really good and my flop was fine. My river as played was excellent, no other play, but that turn I don’t like.
How would you have played it and how do you think Villain played?
Generally how do you play monotones that you hit (strong) but don’t block?
I generally continue with my full range for 20-25% pot. Opponents will find it hard to continue with an appropriate range and not over-fold to such a small bet.
Would have liked to see a turn bet here given how much protection your hand needs.