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NL25 Zoom - Turning weak showdown hand into bluff on river

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NL25 Zoom - Turning weak showdown hand into bluff on river

BN: $18.04
SB: $25.10
BB: $25 (Hero)
UTG: $19.80
HJ: $25.13
CO: $26.50
Preflop ($0.35) (6 Players)
Hero was dealt K T
UTG folds, HJ folds, CO raises to $0.75, BN folds, SB folds, Hero calls $0.50
Don't have really any info on villain other than he looks taggish over very small sample. he's 27/20 over 15hands.
Flop ($1.60) 7 T Q (2 Players)
Hero checks, CO bets $0.75, Hero calls $0.75
Given his flop sizing i could certainly check raise to put him in a tough spot but i'm only repping QT/77 as strong made hands, as i would 3bet TT some % of the time and QQ nearly always, so he could easily put me on a draw if he's good at hand reading.
Turn ($3.10) 7 T Q 3 (2 Players)
Hero checks, CO bets $1.75, Hero calls $1.75
Same reason as for the flop, no point raising here as i would have done it on the flop with my strong made hands.
River ($6.60) 7 T Q 3 A (2 Players)
Hero checks, CO bets $3.50, Hero raises to $10
This really looks like a blocker bet to me.. i guess he could have Axhh that rivered but i'd expect him to show up more often with some weak Qx that's going to have a hard time calling on the river. I also block KJ that could go for a smaller bet trying to get called by a Q.
Should i have played this hand differently? Am i wrong anywhere in my thought process and is my raise sizing on the river big enough?

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WM2K 12 years ago
One thing that jumps out is that you think his river bet is a blocker bet which is impossible. He has no need to block bet with KQ or whatever as he can just take the showdown so block betting is strictly a OOP thing.

Your flop/turn play is good. I d rather c/r either weaker or stronger hands OTF esp as if you c/r and don t get everything in OTF turn river can be quite awkward as you sitting there in a bloated pot with MP2K.

River is interesting. Kx is the natural hand to turn into a bluff here however I think you are facing a range of like AQ+ a large amount of the time. I doubt he s bluffing that often and you block AhKh. If you where playing against villains that where strong enough to make a tight laydown this can be a good play but Id rather not have the FD. Even against better villains though I bet you get looked up a lot cause of the FDs missing.
R0b5ter 12 years ago
Don't like turning it into a bluff here.

Not many hands you can rep that would play like this here. Basically only something like AQ or AT, KJ some of which wouldn't have come to the river like this and some of which you probably aren't even CR since he isn't capped here and can essentially have any nuts. Also vs a basically unknown I think it's never a bluff since we can't say for sure if he's a callingstation or whatnot.
fush.arsi 12 years ago
i dont like calling two streets here with FD OOP. i would like to raise on the flop and i would like to ask the other guys if a turn raise is good here
R0b5ter 12 years ago
Think a flop raise is alright especially since we have second pair to go with the F-draw. OP says only strong made hands are Q7 and 77. This may be true but I also think our CR range should include a few TP hands as well maybe with backdoor F-draws. With thtat kind of a CR range we aren't polarized to nuts or bluffs and I can see us including hands like KTs as well.

Turn raise I don't like at all.
StuZero 12 years ago
I find that when a FD misses, people call light. So I wouldnt bluff this spot.

I quite like leading here rather than CR as we take initiative, and if we get raised then we have a strong enough draw to shove, where as if we CR we often get called rather than raised and that makes the turn harder to play as the pot is bloated and your allin equity drops.

StuZero 12 years ago
like 1/2 pot, I want our opponent to raise rather than flat here as we flip with AQ so Im happy getting it in.

I think if we led pot then he is more likely to flat the flop, but a small bet often will get raised lighter here.




R0b5ter 12 years ago
Just curious, what range are you goong to be donking here? Just F-draws? Nuts? TP? Also will you still have a CR range? If yes it will be very hard to balance both of those ranges sonce you won't have enough nutted hands.
WM2K 12 years ago
I'm not a fan of leading here mostly because of the range considerations. I don't think your going to be tricking many good players with a 1/2 pot lead and it definitely weakens your c/c range.
Chael Sonnen 12 years ago
Check-raise flop for sure. You have a middle pair, 2nd nutt flush draw and a backdoor straight draw.
You crush his range.
Calling turn is fine as played.
You block-bet OOP. He can check back if he wants to.
I think the raise is okay. Your opponent seems kind of spazzy and I doubt he knows you're only really repping KJ.

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