Play this hand with me

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Play this hand with me

BB: $17.45
UTG: $11.83 (Hero)
HJ: $31.88
CO: $8.66
BN: $18.32
SB: $48.32
Preflop ($0.15) (6 Players)
Hero was dealt A J 8 T
Hero raises to $0.30, HJ folds, BN folds, SB calls $0.25, BB calls $0.20
Flop ($0.90) T 6 J (4 Players)
SB checks, BB bets $0.10
Hero?

Thought this might be fun and help me understand your thought processes.

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ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

The hand history is not totally accurate. Three players put money in preflop, but it says 4 players to the flop. So which is it?

Assuming three players, the chance that at least one of your opponents flopped a flush is 49% (assuming 30%!AA ranges on both). BB's bet is therefore very credible.

So as a start, ditch all plans that involve getting unimproved to showdown, unless this is the last bet in the hand. There are three streets to play, and you won't be able to hide the fact that you don't have a flush. All their low flushes can milk you with small bets, or they can bluff small with the nut blocker and bet big on the river to chase you out.

You're getting immediate pot-odds 10 : 1 to draw to a boat, and this is enough for a 4-outer. But you're not closing the betting (SB could c/r), and you could be drawing dead against top set. That will happen rarely, but when it does, you will lose a lot of money when you improve. And when you boat up and are best, the flushes will shut down and not give you a lot of implied odds. 

Since you don't have a clean 4-outer and SB is still in the hand, you can actually fold. Yes, pot-odds, but pot-odds schmott-odds when your only plan is to spike a thin draw, and you're not closing the betting. 

But you can't make really make a mistake by calling (1 bb getting 10 : 1 with 4 mostly clean outs = impossible to make a mistake that matters). Unless you screw up on later streets, a call is fine. So call if you want. This is just one of those spots where you're unlikely to make money by getting involved. If you like to play them, play them. But you're not giving up anything by folding, if you only call to play fit-or-fold. You have some implied odds, but you're also risking a check-raise.

In a heads-up pot, it's an automatic call, though. 


Aleksandra ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

If players are non observant lets say very much, and 3 to a flop and we bet first, or its a check and pour turn to bet,  if flush is matched 50 percent of time, can we donk 100 percent of time and be good lets say not 50 percent of time but optimistic 40 3 way? compared to simply folding most often 

jus wondering :S :)

ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

Aleks,

When nobody has bet, and you think your hand is good, a small protection bet can work well. Because even if nobody has a flush, they have outs to beat you. If they will fold their equity to a small bet, you're fine with that.

I would not lead into a multiway field with just two pair, unless I was bluffing with a blocker. But let's say everybody checked the flop, and then checked the turn to you in position. It would make sense to bet for protection then, against players who are straightforward.


Aleksandra ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

maybe i didn't word out my question properly

if its 3 to a flop and flop is monotone, and we don't have a blocker at all, players wil match flush 50 percent of time, and lets say whenever we are first to bet or there was a check and our turn, if we donk 100 percent of time for umm idk lets say 1/3 pot , we should get folds at least 40 percent of time, isn't that more ev then just folding in long run? i meant in case we get called we can just shut down ( didn't refer to this case when we have two pair hand )

ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

A problem with that plan is that you'll get called by more than flushes. Then you have to check the turn, and the jig is up. When you start betting multiway on a monotone board, you should have a flush, a blocker bluff (both of which can bet again), or position and a good reason to think nobody has a flush (after you have seen them check) and that your hand is good. 


Aleksandra ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

yup i was thinking how many times will players call without flush is important for that math, and i couldn't put a number on it to do correctly so i wondered if u had some creative idea :) but obi not a spot, but then if we then decide to stab that flop here and there is it best to do lets say with hands with blockers + 2 pair hands that have some equity or blocker ones only? Sets seem to much of a waste to use there when we want to improve ?

ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

A blocker hand with some equity is better than no equity. And with, say, a set + NF blocker, we have a good semibluff. It's fine to bet that hand, because we'll rarely get raised, and if we do, we just might make an evil reraise, or call and perhaps bluff later. And ~1/3 of the time we boat up and win anyway. 

The NF blocker gives you lots of options to win the pot.


lofigr 11 years, 2 months ago

CO obv put money preflop, he is missing in preflop list...

EDIT: I am sleeping already....

its wrong "4 players" as pot is 3*0,30 = 0,90 => 3 players in pot


Geo 11 years, 2 months ago

And yeah Zen, I can't imagine ever folding this flop to that bet, if SB checkraises then I'm mucking pretty much everytime.

Geo 11 years, 2 months ago

Flop - Th, 6h, Jh
SB checks
BB bets [$0.10 USD]
Hero calls [$0.10 USD]
SB calls [$0.10 USD]

(pot $1.20)

Turn - Js
SB checks
BB bets [$0.10 USD]
Hero?



Geo 11 years, 2 months ago

yeah, that's the thing, I hate hitting nuts with no cash in the pot. I guess it's unavoidable in a way.

Is there merit jamming the pot button given the board multiway vs awful players?

Turn - Js
SB checks
BB bets [$0.10 USD]
Hero raises [$1.08 USD]
SB calls [$1.08 USD]
BB folds

pot - $3.46

River - Ah
SB checks
Hero Bets [$2.46]




ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

Potting makes it easy for them to play perfectly, and you want them to makes mistakes. Now valuebet the river, small enough to tempt flushes to call.

Note that when the Ah falls, he knows you didn't raise the turn with the nut flush or the nut flush blocker. So he should realize the boatedness of your range. You would probably not play this way with some random bluff, so your range is pretty much all value. Hence, bet on the smaller side, because you want to always get called.


Geo 11 years, 2 months ago

Yeah, maybe my sizing could have been better on the river. I just felt that him calling the turn was very strong and felt that I should go for a bigger bet, is that justifiable?

Either way

Hero bets [$2.46 USD]
SB raises [$10.67 USD]

How do we feel about our hand now? Second nuts is nice :)

And how would we feel if we had the same size stack as him?


ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

Just get it in and see who wins. There are few nut combos that make sense after calling your turn raise. There's AA with a non-nut flush, AA66, AATT, AAJx (presumably, he would not want to fold trips). But they aren't many, because you block them, and he didn't 3B preflop. And a loose/bad player could be on a slowplay with worse boats, thinking they are effectively the nuts.

If you'd been deep, I would not have been very keen on reraising, though.


Aleksandra ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

i got 1 more lil question to bug you :S

if we see flop HU and flop is monotone villain wil match color in what percentage? and what percentage color or blocker :)


ZenFish 11 years, 2 months ago

With our hand, this flop, and a Villain flatting range of 30%!AA, he will have:

- A flush 27%
- The nut flush 11%
- The nut flush blocker 5%

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