[50NLz] AA cracked! Would you play it differently and why?
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[50NLz] AA cracked! Would you play it differently and why?
PokerStars - $0.50 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
BTN: 137 BB (VPIP: 6.67, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 15)
SB: 253 BB (VPIP: 28.57, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)
BB: 47.68 BB
Hero (UTG): 195.32 BB
MP: 41.92 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 2)
CO: 111.3 BB (VPIP: 18.60, PFR: 16.28, 3Bet Preflop: 7.14, Hands: 45)
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has As Ad
Hero raises to 2.42 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 1.42 BB
BB is not fully stacked so could be a fish!
Flop : (5.34 BB, 2 players) 5s 7c 3c
BB bets 3.2 BB, Hero raises to 6.88 BB, BB calls 3.68 BB
Turn : (19.1 BB, 2 players) Tc
BB checks, Hero bets 12.5 BB, BB calls 12.5 BB
Barreling this turn might be a bit to ambitious and certainly high variance.
River : (44.1 BB, 2 players) Ks
BB bets 14 BB, Hero raises to 83.9 BB, BB calls 11.88 BB and is all-in
Hero shows As Ad (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 82%, Flop 63%, Turn 0%)
BB shows Jc Kc (Flush, King High)
(Pre 18%, Flop 37%, Turn 100%)
BB wins 91.86 BB
Rake paid 4 BB
What do you think of the line taken ?
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I think flop raise is ok but I would go bigger for sure. There is plenty to get value from.
When the turn completes the flush it's a very clear check for me. yeah it sucks to give a random one spade hand a free river, but it doesn't suck enough to bet.
As played I'd call the river bet. I see enough people donk lead with terrible block bets or just pure desperation bluffs that calling has to be fine. However, raising is absolutely lighting money on fire.
Since BB is shortstacked + donkbet, it is probably a fish. Since it is a fish:
- I would steal 3bb instead of 2,42bb. Get more money in vs weaker players!
- I would raise flop bigger so that you have a pot sized turn shove left.
- Turn as played I think is fine.
- Why would you ever shove the river? When he calls, you need to beat more than 51% of his calling range, assuming that this is a value bet. What do you think he is going to call with and do you think that you beat 51% of that range? I think the answer is no, you don't beat 51% of that range, so I would never raise the river.
Sorry, ignore my now-deleted comment. I misread the hand history. I thought it was a four-flush board.
Preflop, I would raise bigger with a fish in the blinds.
I would prefer to call flop. The flop is good for BB's range. But raising is ok.
On turn, I would check back. The board is very good for BB's range. He can have tons of two pairs, flushes and straights here.
On river, it's close, but for this price, probably call.
Seems like I have myself priced in on the river by making a dubious turn bet.
I actually do not pay that much attention on who is in the BB and/or SN when raising from UTG I stick with my standard bet size. There are also more players to consider that the BB and ofc I want to play against fish and he may fold against 3 BB :) So I don't see a big reason to raise bigger in this specific situation. Could be that I am missing something here?
Biggest mistake was on flop - size of your raise is way too small, therefore it should be fine to bet turn. On river though its kinda ambitious cause you never fold better hand and that board is scary for his pair of tens and lower so actually I doubt he will call enough worse hands to justify shoving.
What raise size do you suggest then as I don't see the need for a much bigger raise I don't want to loose the villain if he has a worse hand then mine?
Think all none bluffs on river will call due to odds its only 11 BB more in a pot of over 90 BB. Having said that the raise still is prob wring as the villain has more better then wose hands then mine :)
You want to induce mistakes from your opponent and let him make incorrect calls, not give him appropiate odds to chase any single draw. Personally I would use bigger sizing ~12bb to set stacks for turn shove. On more dry board I would go smaller ~10bb, but on this particular flop I feel that he has many decent draws like gutshot+pair and therefore I prefer to split it into 2 streets.
About river - how many kings he has in his range? almost none
Tens? Only a little more, but would he bet Tx on river often?
My point is that your raise is very thin, he should not have many Kx/Tx which are prime target of your value raise. Whole different story would be with K high flop, but there its just way too thin IMHO.
Flop raise size is a fairly large mistake I would say. You definitely want to raise bigger againts a leading range that is on average fairly merged and weak that contains a lot of pairs a draws that are definitely calling a big(ger) raise.
As played turn is probably a check, a lot of flushes in villains range.
What raise size do you suggest on the flop then I don't want to scare villain of a hand
I don't think we have any reason to be paranoid about making a fish overfold to a raise. If we're too concerned about making villain fold hands we end up losing a lot of value at times when villain is not folding.
I would raise to like 10bbs personally.
As noted above, I'd raise larger on the flop, around 10-11bb. Turn is close but I'd prefer a check with this combo and a bet with AA when you have the Ac.
The river raise is really bad I think. Unless villain is a huge calling station I don't see him calling with worse or folding any better.
Terrible line from start to finish.
Unblocking flush draws (in other words, you don't have the Ac), I am raising this flop to at least 12bb if not bigger. Dude is close to 40bb effective after he donks. His only play should be to fold or ship flop. Calling by him is atrocious at that stack depth. As played, you can probably just fold river when he leads but your jam is not completely absurd since he does only leave himself with 11 bb behind once he bets ;)
Checking the turn is also an option here and probably the best option TBH.
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