6 Tables Mid Stakes 6-max NL (part 3)
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nice fold with JT against shark
Would you include any weak combo to x/jam as a bluff in this spot ?
1.
On an 89T flop, even tho its rainbow, that's an action board. As a result, I don't expect him cbet pure air. The airy hands would be JX, some 7X and QX, and AK perhaps.
2.
When an A hits the turn, its a very good barrel card for our opponent as the A doesn't really connect with this board. That is the real beauty of our flop C/C with A7 there. So this is pretty standard call for us and I'd assume that our opponent will keep betting with the entire range that he cbet with on the flop. One thing to note, which is contrary to what I preached in the video, is that the turn barrel is rather large for him. Considering that we rarely have an A or better in our range here, I feel like that would make me think his line is slightly more bluffy.
3.
A 3 hits the river, a nothing card really and all draws missed, including our idiot-end straight draw. At this point, all of his big 9X, and Tx will check down and stop going for value. He is repping AJ+ here, putting us in a clear hero-call/bluffcatcher scenario. Once our opponent bets over 80% pot, my first instinct is that he is looking for big value. But since we really shouldn't have an A in our range, and its usually going to be hard for us to call big bets in this spot, and he knows that, perhaps he's trying to ensure we fold something like JT/J9 and thus makes a big bet to scare us off a crying call. Thinking about it now, I think calling is much closer to folding than I advocated in the video, solely based on the fact that our opponent knows its going to be hard for us to call further large bets when the A pops off on the turn.
In terms of being exploited: I feel that you can't be perfectly balanced in every spot and sometimes due to bad board runouts and being OOP, you and your entire range are at a severe disadvantage. In these spots, the decisions we have to make are very difficult, but that's ok as long as we try to limit these spots to a minimum...I feel its impossible to completely eradicate them. Even tho we are in a HU environment, I think C/Ring and getting in 89 and even 8T might be a bit of an overplay on this flop board. In saying that, we might not want to C/C those twice, but C/C and then lead out the turn instead. But for balance, and to avoid being exploited, we can have A8/A9/AT here, and 89/8T, and every once in a while, J7/QJ that are slowplayed monsters, (I think we have to raise 76 for value at some point on the flop or turn). Our A7 falls right in the middle of our range here (with AJ, or AQ if you don't 3bet that pre), the bottom of our range is going to be 9X/TX with some sort of straight draw, and the high end I just referred to is going to be 2pr+. If I had known my opponent to be triple barrel happy, I would've made this call. But, since my opponent clearly has respect for my game, knows that I'm very capable of slowplaying big hands, having him valuetown himself, and not believing standard bluff cards, I chose a fold. There was also a hand between us (top left table, full table, think it was last video) where I had QJss and he had AQdd and I C/C twice on QcTs9h, and As turn, and he chkd down on like a 6o river... This hand tells me that he has a fear of getting out of line, or going to value against me in these connected wet boards when a bluff card that doesn't connect with the board pops off on the turn.
When you talk about X/jam? Do you mean on the river? If so, I'd obv do it with J7/QJ for value, but a raise, not jamming. And I guess J8/J9 as a bluff, but I probably would make a raise instead of jamming (we are deeper than 100BB), but I don't like it that much as our goal is really to make our opponent fold 2pr (and we could easily be C/Ring into the nuts) and that doesn't always happen...
Curious on your thoughts as I am definitely prone to value own myself in some spots.
For 98 and 99/TT here, it appear that we are beat :) Most of the time, we just fold these and move on the next hand, but jamming and turning our hand into a bluff might be a good option against the more straightforward opponents. I wouldn't overdo this play tho.... Against opponents that have tendencies to get tricky, and slow play hands, I feel like its a bit riskier to make this play against them because they have a higher chance or showing up with AA/A8/A6/A2, not to mention that they might be a little stickier and hero call more often with AT. Sometimes you run into opponents that try to take advantage of the fact that both of your ranges are supposed to be pretty face up in this spot. Versus those, you might be able to find a call. In the end, fold > ship > call in general I would say, but our opponent type will usually dictate which play is the best.
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