Fairly tough river spot
Posted by Chael Sonnen
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Chael Sonnen
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Fairly tough river spot
BN: RENA79: $140
SB: Hero: $500
BB: Golfdish: $500
UTG: laitvik: $567.51
HJ: leynse: $524.33
CO: grossiegros: $384.55
SB: Hero: $500
BB: Golfdish: $500
UTG: laitvik: $567.51
HJ: leynse: $524.33
CO: grossiegros: $384.55
Villian is running 37/24/13 over a small sample
Preflop
($7.50)
(6 Players)
Hero was dealt
Q
Q
laitvik folds, leynse raises to $15, grossiegros folds, RENA79 folds, Hero raises to $52.50, Golfdish folds, leynse calls $37.50
laitvik folds, leynse raises to $15, grossiegros folds, RENA79 folds, Hero raises to $52.50, Golfdish folds, leynse calls $37.50
Against a NIT (not a KNIT, Mush), I might call, but against a guy this loose, obvious 3-bet.
Flop
($112.50)
J
2
K
(2 Players)
Hero checks,
leynse bets $35,
Hero calls $35
Common spot in which I don't really know how to split my range
I don't think I'd ever check AK/AA, sets here, so I feel a little unbalanced.
Since it's HJ vs SB, I don't have hands like KTs that are nice to do it with. KQ with one spade would be ideal, but I don't have that very often.
From what I've read from Sauce and Ike, I should be betting a fairly polarized range here.
I block KQs and he should 4-bet AK, and I highly doubt he bets this small with KJ, so I expect to be good here almost always. Unless this is something like KT/K9.
I don't think I'd ever check AK/AA, sets here, so I feel a little unbalanced.
Since it's HJ vs SB, I don't have hands like KTs that are nice to do it with. KQ with one spade would be ideal, but I don't have that very often.
From what I've read from Sauce and Ike, I should be betting a fairly polarized range here.
I block KQs and he should 4-bet AK, and I highly doubt he bets this small with KJ, so I expect to be good here almost always. Unless this is something like KT/K9.
Turn
($182.50)
J
2
K
2
(2 Players)
Hero checks,
leynse bets $75,
Hero calls $75
With the odds I'm getting, his wide range, and him possibly protection betting Jx this way and obviously bluff, I think I should call here.
Especially given flop analysis.
Especially given flop analysis.
River
($332.50)
J
2
K
2
9
(2 Players)
Hero checks,
leynse bets $361.83, and is all in,
Hero calls $337.50, and is all in
Spades missed but my Qs blocks a ton of big spade combos. T9 missed, QT which I block, AT, no-equity bluffs and Jx turned into a bluff or something weird.
Value hands: Maybe A2s but obviously few combos, KTs/K9s which may check back river, 99, JJ and the few combos left of the hands I block.
Thoughts?
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Please mask the player names ... or would you like to see your screenname in a public forum - combined with the note "spazzy idiot"?! It´s a matter of respect imho ...
As played, fold. You (should) have a bunch of Kx-combos in your range - if you don´t blindly cbet against this guy, i.e. AK, KQ, KK and stuff, so there´s no need to call this from a GTO-point-of-view.
If it´s a good exploitative call is hard to judge w/o more information than "spazzy idiot", I´m a bit scared by his small betsizes (if he was on a draw I´d expect to either bomb the turn or check it behind?) ...
Removed the comment. Can't change the player names anymore.
Which Kx do you suggest I play this way? AK with a spade? That hand seems way too strong to play for balance.
Other than that, I don't have any Kx but my 3-bet bluffs like KQo/KTs.
Also not a fan of check-calling a set here, because the board is so wet.
Chael,
It seems like checking some AK or KQ with a spade and a few combos of sets would be good exploitatively versus this opponent. Especially when we're williing to call it off here w. QQ, no?
Obviously true, but I'm not sure how to well balanced versus an extremely tough opponent, because the only hands to balance with are the very strongest hands that problem want to get value, and not give him a free card on a wet board.
Chael,
If you are in fact playing an extremely tough opponent, then you likely won't give him a free card when you check this wet of a board with your sets.
So you're saying I shouldn't have a checking range here? I think I do for hands like this, and I need to find other hands to balance it.
What if he raises? That would be an extremely annoying spot.
No, I am saying the exact opposite. Especially with your sets vs good, aggro opponents.
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