NL 5 BU vs. UTG 3B Spot

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NL 5 BU vs. UTG 3B Spot

Blinds: $0.02/$0.05 (6 Players) BN: $5.97 (Hero)
SB: $2.28
BB: $14.91
UTG: $21.86
MP: $5.42
CO: $5.41
villain looks like reg (22/17 with 7% 3B stats) over 73 hands
Preflop ($0.07) Hero is BN with K K
UTG raises to $0.15, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.45, 2 folds, UTG calls $0.30
Flop ($0.97) 7 J 6
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.73, UTG calls $0.73
Semi-dry texture, there are some middling draws. Villain could have 66 and 77 in his range, JJ are split between both of us. Don't think I can range-bet, so I decided to go polarized and size up.
Turn ($2.43) 7 J 6 5
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.65, UTG raises to $10.10, Hero calls $3.14 and is all in
Not sure how to feel about this turn card. If we were barreling FD many of those complete now, but villain could also have many of those in his calling range, maybe he splits them 50/50 between c/c and c/r on the flop. Any 89 draw he had also gets there. Decide to bet again though because we can get called by worse, maybe a pocket pair with a spade. What do people think about the turn?
Call all-in with K spade? Would you call without one?
River ($17.32) 7 J 6 5 K
Final Pot BN wins and shows three of a kind, Kings.
UTG lost and shows a pair of Eights.
BN wins $11.51
Rake is $0.50
villain had 88 no spade.

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Shaun Pauwels 4 years, 9 months ago

I like the flop size. Just apply pressure and push your advantage.

Turn is an ugly card. KK with a spade seems like a fine bet and call it off. Blocking KQss, KJss and still have outs against sets. Sucks if he shows us a flush but so be it.

joe_h3 4 years, 9 months ago

Yeah, I think you played every street well. I like the polarised flop sizing given board texture - and as you said I think you can still get called by worse on the turn, so betting again seems solid.

I think on that texture, flopped sets are going to x/raise at least some of the time, so he probably doesn’t have all combos of sets when he x/shoves the turn. Plus, the Ks we have in our hand blocks some flushes. Given that he defended a 3b oop pre flop, he probably shouldn’t have too many spade combos. AQss, possibly ATss? Plus maybe some 9Ts if he’s defending that much of his range pre? But again, some of the flush draws with less SDV might x/raise flop to balance out the value raises, so I don’t think he has that many on the turn at all.

Bottom line: he doesn’t need to bluffing with the naked As very often to make your call profitable. Plus, this is 5nl: people make very weird, inexplicable hands which you couldn’t possibly put in their ranges. So I think you can always chuck a few random bluffs in people’s ranges.

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