JJ drawy board

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JJ drawy board

CO: $10
BN: $10 (Hero)
SB: $8.78
BB: $10
UTG: $10
UTG1: $10
UTG2: $14.91
LJ: $10.50
HJ: $16.86
Preflop ($0.15) (9 Players)
Hero was dealt J J
UTG folds, UTG1 folds, UTG2 folds, LJ folds, HJ raises to $0.20, CO folds, Hero raises to $0.70, SB folds, BB folds, HJ calls $0.50
Flop ($1.55) 9 9 8 (2 Players)
HJ bets $1, Hero raises to $2, HJ calls $1
Turn ($5.55) 9 9 8 3 (2 Players)
HJ checks, Hero bets $4, HJ calls $4
River ($13.55) 9 9 8 3 T (2 Players)
HJ bets $10.16, and is all in, Hero calls $3.30, and is all in

Villian was a 74/29, who just stacked me by hitting trips on the river with second pair against my overpair, so he was playing agressive agaisnt me, so I deciden to go AI, when I got the equity in my favour, despite their wide range, and calling my raise on the flop I thought i was ahead against middle pairs, GS and OESD.


In the turn comes the FD which hits on my opponent range most of the times, so I decided to protect, but even get I get called comes to my mind if he may have a very strong range and slowplay me, in the river im commited and came one of the worst cards, I dont think I can f

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ItsToothPasteISwear 11 years ago

I would raise the flop more, a MR dosnt accomplish much, unless you think hes going to spaz, but with JJ you block a bunch of his spaz hands

yeah river sucks, but you are getting to good a price, so just pray he has Tx or some goofy last ditch bluff attempt with a busted draw.


5BetJam 11 years ago

Definitely raise flop more - you want him to put more money in when he's behind. Call river because you are getting a good price and his line doesn't make a whole lot of sense 

LaughingBuddha 11 years ago

In what way was villain playing aggressive towards you before this hand? Did he donkbet his second pair? Thru how many hands is he 74/29?

And yes once you put money in on the turn you are committing yourself to this hand. As played and with the remaining stacks there isn't a single river card you should ever fold to. A larger raise on the flop also would have made it easier to get it all in on the turn with less than a pot sized bet, which combined with the history and him possibly thinking you're on tilt, I also would've done no matter what card came on the turn.

J.J. Arroyo 11 years ago

Yep, he thought I was tilted, but I played my best. A miniraise flop is because, I wanted to fold to a reraise, I dont know what do you think about that?

LaughingBuddha 11 years ago

There are other situations/streets where a small raise can be great, but with this specific villain and situation I think you should only be minraising if you can expect him to repop spaz a lot as ToothePaste noted above, and that's with the full intention of continuing not to be bet/folding.

There's a bit behind this situation that would have me happily committed on the flop and to reraise stacking the flop in this 3-bet pot:

1.) He's recently shown aggression and also stacked off + sucked out with 2nd pair vs. you(though the details behind that previous hand are important too). He may perceive you on tilt or be over confident in his play.

2.) His FR range is extremely wide here if that's over 50 hands, but be careful with small samples, around 50 is still small but good enough here imo to believe it's not just a heater.

3.) JJ isn't strong enough to abuse his aggro by just calling, and even if you did you're probably going to be putting in around a full stack anyways. There are a lot of cards you won't like on the turn, and it can get especially ugly by the river that you may convince yourself to fold the best hand too often.

4.) You also want him to put in more money to see another card with worse hands, which he seems to like to do. You don't want to be offering his range such great odds to call a small raise.

5.) While you're going to either be way ahead or way behind, given the situation/history/spr, folding JJ is way too tight here and a hand i'm happy to get all in with.

Don't worry if you lose, and take a note no matter which action he chooses.

J.J. Arroyo 11 years ago

In fact I want him to spaz, so you re right with raising more, anyways he was calling me a lot with backdoors and FD, thats why also I bet strong on the turn, in the river my hand against that part of draws of his percieved range is behind, but there are also many worse hands and I got great pot odds about 1/4 of the pot, I have to win aprox. 17% of the time right?

LaughingBuddha 11 years ago

It also depends on whether you've seen and/or can expect him to spaz. Betting the turn strong is fine against him playing like that, as long as you're aware that you are committing yourself to the hand at that point. Holding a small overpair here on the river and with how little is remaining in your stack compared to the pot size and his stack off range, you should never ever fold.

The only scenario you could fold this river would be if you were betting a hand with no showdown value as a complete bluff. And if that was the case, there was likely a mistake made to get you in that spot unless you were trying to exploit a specific flaw in his game that you've witnessed.

Not knowing how the previous hand went down and just based on the fact you said he was aggressive played into my response. But be careful to note in which ways someone is being aggressive, him raising you with second pair can mean a whole different thing than him donk betting a 3-bet flop.

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