River Spot
Posted by Dddogkillah
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Dddogkillah
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River Spot
Hand 1
STD pre-flop defend for me, as well as flop float.
On turn we pick up pair+, so plenty of equity to call with a play a river.
When he tripple barrels I feel my SDV is no good, or barley ever good.
Thinking about smashing this (on river)....
We will be raising into an un-capped range,
But we can rep; QT, T8s, JJ , and I like my blockers to 99/ QT....
What do you think about 3x raising?
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I think you need to be very selective here and having a spade is perhaps bad enough to not choose to bluff this hand. QT does not have odds to call turn either so your range is capped compared to MP. T8o is probably not in your preflop range either.
If you were short stacked at 50bb or less you could raise much more aggro for value and this hand could fall insider the threshold of bluffing hands.
Yes, but the point is that you have only 4 really good raising combos and some of them might or might not be in a flop/turn XR range.
Explain your spade theory please, because that makes no sense to me.
If any thing we are blocking his river bluffing region ( Q♠9♠, A♠Q♠, any Jx SDV he might turn into a bluff )....
What hands do you think would be better to bluff with??

My range (aprox) here:
It is not too important in this spot to not have a spade, but because you should have an extremely small B fqz every little factor matters.
When river bluffing you should both block calling range and not block folding range. Qs blocks some of the possible Bs and therefore should be slightly lower EV than Qc.
I think the best bluffing hand is KT (and 2nd best T9) here because it blocks KK, AK, KJ, K9s, T8s and QTs.
Q♣ doesn't float turn,
KTo your blocking hands we are trying to get to fold, KT has all-right SD value vs SD value turned into bluffs and BDFD's...
KQc
The spade theory is simple. Villain has fewer bd flushcombos in his range that can bluff, but have to fold against a river raise always.
@Min 31 spade theory is explained in detail: http://www.runitonce.com/poker-training/videos/2-table-24-hu-nlhe-vs-zaza-w-dual-h/
That would be one ballsy move! I think you can rep QT or T8 pretty strongly, so in theory it should have a good chance to succeed. You need 56% if you 3x it.
What I don't like is that villain is a total unkown, therefore we know nothing about his 3 barrell range and just how curious he is. Some players will not barrell lightly Kxx board vs unknown, because people hate folding top pairs. If he's only barrelling here with draws or KJ+ and will never fold a set, then you're basically folding out missed BDFD, which you actually block...
Kalupso, QT = T8 on the turn.
No it is a 4out SD here and only improves on J.
The play is call or shove here with a polarized range and about a pot raise left. Shove JJ+ sounds good.
Yah your right thought he was a little deeper with me...
oops, you're right... JT was a double gutter.
Depends on his 2barrel range if he barrels all QTs or just QsTs,
I think i would 2,25 - 2,5 x my raise size, given he is not capped.
using AsTs and Qs9s and some Ts9s that i'm not always 3bet(not all combo given i 3b some and xr some before) and xr 99 JJ QsTs
Maybe 77 could be a x/r too for my size, but vs good opponnent who value bet thinly here.
Good opponent would not VB thinly here (look at flopzilla sim) and I think AK or AA is the thinnest you can go.
If you XR 2.5x you will put less money in when ahead and be forced to call of rest of stack when behind. How can that be better than shoving?
@Kalupso, i think first of all we raise/fold our bluff, and always raise call our value range when he repop.
It's not only a question of being ahead or behind, more your size is small more vilain has to defend(calldown) a bluffcatcheur to be unexploitable to a bluff, so you can xr thinly in value.
I don't think x/r 77 or maybe 99 is a good strategy if you shove, but if you make a small raise, i think it's okay, i don't have made the maths to confirm that, depends a lot on the size we're facing on the river, if the guy bet pot or half pot etc.. We must decide what nuts% he has in his value betting range, and how frequently he can potentielly bet/fold the river.
More than an exploitable point of view, it's just to create an effective general raising strategy.
Just imagine, how he could be hard to get x/small raise river when you hold a bluffcatcher. If you always fold those hand, you can get raped in the long run by his bluffs.
For me, in this type of spot, where the blokers effect is not dat much important, a smaller size is very powerfull, allows you to vb thinly, and you can potentielly kill the guy who always fold bluffcatcher here.
If you are in a spot, more like, you value Ahi flush, or you have Ahi flush blocker, you can raises a billiard of BBs no problem.
I just want to say that it's not so rare that the guy hold better than 77.
Noone will believe that you have QT here, and also T8 is debatable unless you have the combodraw OTT. JJ is somewhat legit, altough you 3bet some of those pre or fold turn maybe. And given that you already made clearly + EV plays on all streets, just fold when your range is capped.
Interesting hand and good discussion - but isn't this just one of those spots where we should be thinking "we can't win every hand" ?
A) we don't know about villain's triple barrel range or bet sizing tendencies
B) we don't know if villain can fold top top.
C) we block some of his bet-folding range
His small-ish turn bet and large-ish river bet suggests to me that the J helped him. It's not a natural card to bomb with a one-pair hand as it looks like it hits your range more than his.
If I were going to raise over a triple barrel I'd need a little more evidence that it would work.
yep in an exploitive point of view i m agree with u juicing
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