flop second set, get x/r, villain checks turn

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flop second set, get x/r, villain checks turn

SB: $2819
BB: $297.75
UTG: $651
HJ: $2111.64
CO: $3682.64 (Hero)
BN: $1000
HJ is a crazy lag playing 57/34/20 that pretty much can't lose a pot this session. He's running way good in both hitting boards and sucking out.

SB is a 24/15/8 reg that plays well and is definitely a winner in the games. He's solid but capable of bluffing. He knows that I'm going to be betting fairly thin for value on the flop, but I would expect he's a little wider here than normal due to the LAG limping (he doesn't limp reraise)
Preflop ($15.00) (6 Players)
Hero was dealt 7 T T 7
UTG folds, HJ calls $10, Hero raises to $45, BN folds, SB calls $40, BB folds, HJ calls $35
seems standard
Flop ($145.00) 7 6 Q (3 Players)
SB checks, HJ checks, Hero bets $110, SB raises to $340, HJ folds, Hero calls $230
bet the flop for value and get raised. Obviously worried that I'm behind top set, but I can't fold here.
Turn ($825.00) A (2 Players)
SB checks
little surprised villain checks the A. I shouldn't have too many AAxx in my b/c'ing range on the flop (I would check back some with bdfd's, and b/f most of the rest). So villain is likely still ahead and my range has to be mostly big draws. I would expect him to keep betting for value and protection with the top of his range to avoid giving me a free card.

should I bet? If I bet do I just b/f?

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spassewr 10 years, 7 months ago

Gotta bet yea...bet folding seems ridic but at 500bbs gii vs a tight player here cant be good readless even tho id be suspicious that hes got wrap+fd but i guess he can still play QQ that way.

skandalous 10 years, 7 months ago

I would definitely bet on the bigger side. I agree with spassewr about the b/f but I wouldn't worry too much about it because I don't think you get c/r here very often.

themightyjim 10 years, 7 months ago

QQ with an A blocker.  A pretty well played hand by him all in all, but you're correct about the double xr being very invogue these days.  I've been working hard on constructing turn betting ranges in these situations and increasingly I'm find they should be very very polarized.

Jonathan Davis 10 years, 6 months ago

Massively disagree that villain played this hand well in regards to the turn. His action almost forced mid set to fold and hero probably checks back a lot of hands with 30-40% equity that he misses value from. I see zero reason to c/r twice besides the really terrible reason of rivers are hard to play when he gets called because almost every river changes the effective nuts. Not no mention this is a turn where barring draws, hero will rarely ever bet, so why would we check with a polarized range in villains spot? Seems so terrible compared to betting.

Hokunali 10 years, 6 months ago

I think you have to bet/call to protect your hand. If a villain has a big wrap, and picks up a flush draw, he could play it the same way too. If you check, you give that hand a chance to draw for free. He never has AA here, and the only hand that has u in a really bad shape is QQ. I think if you don't bet to protect your hand, and don't bet call it off, you become way too exploitative. Unfortunate to run into top set here...

themightyjim 10 years, 6 months ago

Well it doesn't get my money back but it makes me feel a little better about my play ;-).  I'm still not sure if it's a b/f or a b/stack on the turn since I don't know how much of his range would be worse than QQ.

lanceryosuke 10 years, 6 months ago

With us blocking two tens,we discount more combos of 8 9 Tx in his range. Furthermore i dont think he should be xr ing strong str8 draws here with a LAG player behind since they work better as calls to allow the LAG player to draw thinly with his bad draws. Looks like a strong made hand to knock out the player behind. On turn,some players are just afraid to bet big on the turn and tilt fold on the river when a scare card hits. Thus xr becomes like the "only"option here for them to get stacks in and ensure they dont misplay any rivers. Live nits and bumhunters in live poker setting play like that alot although i can't say the same for online deep plo

oboltys88 10 years, 6 months ago

Imo, an average player would have a range of (QQ, 89T) after flop x/r. And they usually bet the turn. So once he checks the turn i would be very suspicious since it means either on the flop or the turn they don't play like an average player plays. Without further reads being unable to define their range i would try and check the hand down to get a better read on his range in this spot.

If i decide to bet the turn it's only profitable under an assumption that villain has a lot of air in his flop x/r range, enough air to justify me betting turn for protection. Because if he doesn't have enough air on the flop and he checks the turn and i don't have an idea what he has i just give him an advantage in the hand if i continue betting.

But if i have a read that this particular guy c/r bluff with air on this flop a lot i would bet the turn for protection. And i would fold to a jam because i don't think an average player c/jams a random draw that has 27% equity.


Sauce123 10 years, 6 months ago

I think you can either bet/fold or xback turn here.  Your equity is going to be really bad ai here with the Td blocker to his super wraps.  On the other hand, you're ahead of his XC range and betting lets you protect from hands like 8599 or something that he might xr bluff.  

I just ran a sim on this, and it seems like if you're betting turn here with around 54% of your flop bet/call range, then you'll be calling the XR at least 55% of the time before you need to include a hand this weak... so I think bet/fold looks like the play unless you're especially concerned to induce bluffs or protect your xback range.

...also, your hand has 29% equity assuming he always chooses to XR his wrap+FD hands on this turn, which is unlikely.  So def fold once you bet


AF3 10 years, 6 months ago

I don't play PLO, but wouldn't this be like the quintessential hand to not be potting pre-flop (with stacks this deep)? 

You're basically building the pot in such a way that that you won't be able to semi-bluff (with your hand), and it seems like you won't be able to value bet that effectively when you hit (for large sizings on multiple streets at least).

I would also think that you certainly won't be able to get it in very good either (with the stack depth). 

I don't know if there's some equity distribution software for PLO, but I would imagine that on a lot of flops, a hand like this would not have that much equity when it hits (but it definitely wouldn't be behind on all that many occasions). 

On a few flops it would have a lot of equity but probably win a small to medium sized pot, though. 

Am I wrong about all this?

themightyjim 10 years, 6 months ago

I'm potting because I want to ISO and play HU vs HJ and if one of the regs wants to 3bet I can call and play a 3bet pot with my implied odds.

Not potting and raising to 35 or 40 would be fine.  I don't think it makes a huge difference as long as you're fairly consistent with your ISO raise size with various portions of your range.  Mostly I just want to encourage the BTN to play tighter as a flat or 3bet by the BTN is the worse result for me.

JasonCrest 10 years, 6 months ago

I think we can b/f here as we have Td and the Ad turned, which both makes it unlikely he is on a draw.

As far as villains' line goes, he definitely should have some CRs with strong made hands in his range theoretically as he will have quite a bit of hands that want hero to xb too.


AF3 10 years, 6 months ago

I don't see how you isolate if the fish isn't re-raising.  Not as often as you'd like to, at least. 

Aren't the stack sizes of the SB and the BB like the two stack sizes that make it least likely you'll get an iso?

themightyjim 10 years, 6 months ago

I want the BTN.  if I have the BTN I can pot control in this spot if I flop mid set on a bad board.  I also am going to get HU with a pot bet fairly often, which is fantastic (limper is the fish).  My hand doesn't want to limp because it wants to be HU and gain the benefit of fold equity on certain flops due to my preflop raising range.  limping would be fine, but I think raising is more likely to create really +EV situations for me in this spot.  if I was on the button I think the difference between limping and iso-raising is probably very close and it's possible that limping would be more profitable.

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