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Seems like a standard hand, went very wrong in-game

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Seems like a standard hand, went very wrong in-game

Blinds: $0.05/$0.10 (6 Players) BN: $10.00
SB: $10.00
BB: $18.16
UTG: $12.06 (Hero)
MP: $9.02
CO: $43.89
Preflop ($0.15) Hero is UTG with J A
Hero raises to $0.30, MP folds, CO calls $0.30, 3 folds
Standard open, bottom of range
Flop ($0.75) T 9 K
Hero bets $0.25, CO calls $0.25
cbet was standard for me, however I just put in his range in equity calc and not doing good against it (35%)
cbet size questionable as well
really dislike my play here
Turn ($1.25) T 9 K 2
Hero bets $0.83, CO calls $0.83
we have no spades, so he picks up those outs as well. very bad T cbet
River ($2.91) T 9 K 2 Q
Hero bets $2.70, CO raises to $14.89, Hero calls $7.98 and is all in
hit the nut straight, however flush also comes in
he jams, in-game was thinking I beat all jacks. not considering he would not jam those jacks except flushes.
Final Pot UTG lost and shows a straight, Ten to Ace.
CO wins and shows a flush, King high.
CO wins $23.18
Rake is $1.09
he has TJs

First of all I know I played this hand bad, was end the end of a losing session.
However, I want to learn from it.

Question: do you cbet this flop?
Checkfolding seems too weak against a player who flats alot of hands pre.
Checkcalling can't be optimal either?
If cbet, what size & why?

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Shaun Pauwels 4 years, 11 months ago

Question: do you cbet this flop?

No. What is this bet accomplishing? OOP you want to proceed very carefully on these type of boards.

Checkfolding seems too weak against a player who flats alot of hands
pre.

Why? He has a wide range but that wide range is connecting really well with this board. And you can still check/call. No one sais you need to check fold.

Checkcalling can't be optimal either?

Why not? There's still a lot of money to be played for, we have a gutshot to the nuts, backdoor nut draw and overcards.

If cbet, what size & why?

You can have a cbet range. But when you are not cbetting often you are sizing op. Standard rule is: Frequency goes up, sizing goes down. Frequency goes down, sizing goes up.

GotHeem 4 years, 11 months ago

Thank you for your comment can you expand on your last statement
"Standard rule is: Frequency goes up, sizing goes down. Frequency goes down, sizing goes up.

I've seen it a couple time but not really understanding.

Thank you in advance

Shaun Pauwels 4 years, 11 months ago

Frequency refers to how often you are cbetting hands of your range. What you see often these days is that on flops people are cbetting a small sizing or advicing to bet a small sizing. This is because they are cbetting 100% of their range.
Then on the turn the sizing goes to 2/3rd pot, 3/4th pot rather often. At this point people are selective betting, a smaller % of their range.

When you are betting a large % of your range your cbet sizing tends to go down. When you are betting a small % of your range your cbet sizing tends to go up.

The reasons behind this is mainly explained through terms as "merged" and "polarized". But it does go a lot deeper than that. Peter Clarke does explain it somewhat in From the Ground Up course.

But as a good basis you can think in that way. Do I cbet here very often? Yes -> small sizing. No -> bigger sizing. Cbet sizing and cbet% are somewhat inversely proportional.

Degradavais 4 years, 11 months ago

I think he means the more often a spot comes up like bu vs bb on dry board the more often we bet 1/3 pot cbet, and if a spot is less comon we bet 3/4 with top of range

Samu Patronen 4 years, 11 months ago

Yeah I would play more passively on the flop and on the turn, our hand is not that exciting and we're not going to have an advantage againts a tight IP calling range.

I also dislike river sizing, I would go for a smaller one given how equal your ranges are (both players have a lot of straights and flushes so we ought to not polarize heavily). As played I would advocate folding to a raise, your line is very strong and villain shoves anyways, meaning that he probably has a flush.

Gino Song 4 years, 11 months ago

cbetting this flop small or check calling a small bet is both fine

river bet is way to big, but small instead. As played with the giant bet, fold to raise for sure.

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