Facing a really strange river check/shove...

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Facing a really strange river check/shove...

This happened in the 109 Bounty Builder. No reads or notes on Villain. I was playing on a more aggressive style early on today, hence a wider than normal open (for me at least).

PokerStars - $50+$50+$9|45/90 Ante 14 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG+1: 51.16 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 5.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 20)
MP: 55.42 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 2)
MP+1: 48.36 BB (VPIP: 17.86, PFR: 15.18, 3Bet Preflop: 1.92, Hands: 112)
MP+2: 15.46 BB (VPIP: 16.67, PFR: 13.10, 3Bet Preflop: 6.06, Hands: 86)
CO: 65.96 BB (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 7.14, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 28)
BTN: 138.33 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 10.71, 3Bet Preflop: 7.69, Hands: 28)
SB: 60.47 BB (VPIP: 18.46, PFR: 12.90, 3Bet Preflop: 7.69, Hands: 65)
BB: 86.59 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 5)
Hero (UTG): 102.79 BB

9 players post ante of 0.16 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.9 BB) Hero has As 3s
Hero raises to 2.44 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 1.44 BB

Flop : (6.79 BB, 2 players) 9d 4c 5s
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn : (6.79 BB, 2 players) 2s
BB bets 4 BB, Hero calls 4 BB

River : (14.79 BB, 2 players) 7h
BB checks, Hero bets 10.64 BB, BB raises to 79.99 BB and is all-in, Hero ???

We obviously have a healthy stack size in relation to the table, and even when we fold we are still 85bb deep. Can/should we just fold? I can't expect we are going to find better spots, and we lose to two hands - 36 and 68. I would think some V's do this with sets and two pairs maybe? Not really sure. Not a situation I run into a lot, except for seemingly every tournament I played today.

Anyone have an resources or video's they've seen that talks about this over shove trend that's starting to occur lately? It's been putting me in a lot of awkward spots, and it's something I want to get into my game but want to make sure I understand the spots to use it properly.

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antihero 8 years, 6 months ago

I'd always snapcall here. You capped yourself by xb flop and are at the absolute top of your range. He can easily have a bunch of bluffs and worse value as well.

Disclaimer: I'm a cash game player mostly

StreetSpirit 8 years, 6 months ago

Folding seems just too heroic considering your perceived range. He can definitely get out of line with bluffs + he could be valueshoving worse.

BTW is it standard to check back the flop at some frequency with this hand? Seems like an easy cbet to me.

OneTime1Time 8 years, 6 months ago

I've been mixing flop checks into my game a lot more in spots where betting would be "standard". Just something i've been trying out.

Full disclaimer - I didn't realize I posted this in the more cash centric forum until I couldn't find my topic in the MTT mistakes forum. That's what I get for posting hands when i'm really tired.

I agree in a cash game this is 100% snap call, but I'm not 100% sure it is in a tournament. I think in game we probably always call, but I'm not really finding many hands that he just bets turn, then plans to check raise bluff river with. I also don't see a lot of reason to be shoving sets like this.

If this was at a micro or even low stakes tournament, I wouldn't give much thought to it, but it's one of the bigger bounty builders. The play is generally a lot better there.

I'm still struggling with thoughts on this, my coach said he thinks it's a fold, but would never fault a person for calling. The general consensus though is that it's a call, especially with his bounty on the line. He doesn't have to bluff/have worse value very frequently to make it profitable. I do think it's a lot closer than originally expected though.

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