Feelsgoodman

Posted by badbets009

Posted by badbets009 posted in Low Stakes

Posted 9 years, 1 month ago

Feelsgoodman

Blinds: $0.10/$0.25 (6 Players) CO: $33.10
BN: $6.37
SB: $66.91 (Hero)
BB: $25.00
UTG: $35.77
MP: $9.42

Preflop ($0.35) Hero is SB with Q Q

2 folds, CO raises to $0.50, BN folds, Hero raises to $1.50, BB folds, CO calls $1.00

Flop ($3.25) K 2 3

Hero checks, CO bets $1.75, Hero calls $1.75

Turn ($6.75) K 2 3 Q

Hero checks, CO checks

River ($6.75) K 2 3 Q K

Hero bets $6.42, CO raises to $12.84, Hero raises to $63.66 and is all in, CO calls $17.01 and is all in

Final Pot CO lost and shows three of a kind, Kings.
SB wins and shows a full house, Queens full of Kings.
SB wins $63.45
Rake is $3.00

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screamdustry 9 years, 1 month ago

I dont like your sizing on river.

In my opinion, the right way to think about sizing in this spot is to choose if we want to be called only by Kx or we also want some value from Qx.

So option 1) bet for halfpot, get some value from Qx, make him raise with most of his Kx,
option 2) overbet hard there to be sure that he's paying his price with Kx,

I think we are achieving more by 1) option. Your sizing is between these two and i think its making him a bit too hard to bluffcatch there with Qx.

Kalupso 9 years, 1 month ago

I don't like half pot here to maximize with QQ. You block all the queens anyway.

I also think that you want to bet flop often with QQ to not make your checking range to heavily weighted towards under pairs. I think bet entire range with small size is an option too.

screamdustry 9 years, 1 month ago

@Kalupso
Its not that far away into Kx combos. Its because people tend to 4bet more of AK and they are calling 100% with AQ in this spot.

So we have:
AQo (3), QJs (1), QTs (1), KQo (1) (i discounted KQo because he's mostly betting it on turn) = 6 combos of Qx
vs.
KJs (2), KTs (2) and let's weight him into 50% AK aswell - AKo (3) and AKs (1) = 8 combos of Kx

Kalupso 9 years, 1 month ago

Ok, I guess it makes sense to go small here and probably even smaller than 50% pot to get called by underpairs, A-high and bet-3bet against Kx. With KK I think you need to go larger because you can never bet-3bet vs Kx.

Either way I think CB 100% OTF is the way to go here and should be a stronger strategy than making checking range face up. It takes much more skill to balance betting and checking range here and I think CB 100% is the highest EV flop strategy I am able to execute.