Cthulu23

yeah awful river call

if btn is tight it's auto raise

call and rep straight when checked to ott. If you get trapped by a strtaight and he x/r the turn, you gii with 40% equity whereas if you bet 3bet 5bet flop you will be 30% vs KK. Also this deep CO should be very concerned on straight turns so in theory you should have very profitable bluffs. If his vpip is >40 just flat and play your hand for what it is, 10 outs to the nuts and take a free card on straight cards if he checks to you.

Tbh micro plo is a joke. You just wait for hands and never bluff river vs strong absolute value hands. I tried to do a challenge but stopped since no feedback and got bored talking to myself.

tag is probably a laggy fish, no tag ever raises QJ85 utg. Call and look for T/9/A and 6 or lower. Yeah it sucks to give utg free outs when you and bb have T9 and he has KKQ2 but what can you do, risk of running into sets/ 2p with redraw is too big.

yeah check-back with no hearts in hand, he could have some aggressive reraises ott that contain hearts, double flushdraws, wrap and flushdraw etc, i'd jam with Q or T of hearts. +++ i think regs check their whole range here as a reflex but they shouldn't. He should jam and you should be in a very nasty situation since he has far more hearts than you do here. Unless you check-back T8hh/QThh otf and flat his reraise with T8hh ott to protect your range otr rather than squeezing that freeroll equity. Actually you have some T865hh type hands but those are pretty much the only combos since i don't think you check-back A/Q/K high fdraws on this flop, nor should you?.

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If his cold call is a relevant sample and he realizes you pot aces in this spot cause of ranges and calls 9xxx, then no you can't.

I believe paradigm plays a lot higher? so might be out of touch with the super micro stakes and how they play. I'm pretty sure field is very value heavy in this spot.

In practice what you'll see at plo 5 will be top 2 or better. For some reason people don't perceive KQT9 as a pushing equity hand but more of an invulnerable calling any bet hand. You also won't have any fold equity on straight cards vs sets so i'd recommend you take the more conservative approach and fold. Also never 3bet against a minraise, hj vs utg, with this particular hand. A better candidate would be AKQTds, it leaves more Axxx combos in his range so you can flop AT vs A5xx on AT5 whereas if you have AA it's unlikely he will have anything. Also AQKT thoroughly punishes junky unconnected cold calling hands like KJT3 and gets any other straightdraw dead on QJ5 Even though you will make a small profit, if at all since your hand will be more defined and people like to cold call behind ip a lot, you won't give the fish behind opportunity to squeeze, something they like especially against minraises and they like using particularly bad hands for it like KQQ3

You're implying that you won't get people's stacks in a set vs set situation on Axx if you iso pre which is not the case. I mean you won't get them anyways in a limped pot because you can't get all in by the river but 3xing pre and bet bet bet or x/r in a limp pot and bet bet will lead to the same pot size. If you start with a x/r otf on A87 in a limped pot, your opponent is less likely to raise you back with 77,88, because he's afraid of aces and also because he did not invest a lot in the pot and feels less attached to it, from my experience people just call down in that spot. However if you raise pre and bet yourself on A87 he'd be incentivized to raise 88 to protect against all your straight draws and it's highly unlikely he will be able to get rid of his hand against a jam. Raise folding in that situation would also be extremely exploitable by you jamming your whole range, AA and JT9

Don't sweat it too much, things like this will happen from time to time and even though you could mitigate your losses with a better mindset, the answer how is probably not in a poker forum. Regarding wtsd i think jimmy is right, it is too high, but it's very important at these stakes to understand the difference between stealing free money vs range that is usually snap folding and trying to push people off of strong relative hand strength such as flushes on non paired boards, small full houses, sets on straight boards etc.

maybe call with 68 and 5 or 4 in hand?

I'd play 4756 this way

yeah that's what he meant :)

no it's not cause you have blockers to what you want your opponent to have. I like checking whole range otr since you have very few full houses here and when you do have a hand like QJ98 or QKJTss you'd want him to bluff AXXXss

i like a bluffraise with the intention of barreling blanks and 7564, not clubs though cause i feel like made hands either 3bet flop or fold straight away and there are no QQ/AA+oesd type hands possible that would bet call one

i think x/jam vs 1 bet and 1 fold

we're ahead aj/kj. Do like folding.

Well this technically isn't a 4bet it's more of a larger squeeze since btn only min 3bet with a pretty hand in his eyes. You should pay more attention to stack depth and the strength of your aces in multiway situations or very deep hu when deciding to sqz, 4bet. That said you could go with your hand if you had a bdoor flushdraw or the NUT gutshot to go with your aces. You've got 27% ish vs decent ranges here.

jam, you have 0 bluffs here, light cold 4bets would include AKQT which is a str draw, AKQJ trips or some kqt9ds. Also he has a ton of str draws and will basically never fold against a small bet so why give odds. Go for a smaller bet on a board like 665 where his sb 3betting range doesn't hit it that much. Balance that with your pure air and always go with aces if you get raised. If you bet 20% here and think he can't peel proftably with QT cause you have some J9 that has him dead, that's obv not true since you have a ton times more aces so you can get it in very bad ott with 2 outs or even making some incorrect folds on like an 8 against KKTx.

your hand block bluffs like 3JTQ, i think it's a good check with trips weak as this one

So you mean skip cbet and x/f, yeah i find the skip cbet and x/f in 3bet pots better.

Galfond overcalled in similar spot with QJ98ds saying "easiest flat in the world". I know there's gaps and all that but there's a whale in there.

Flop can be either a bet or a check sometimes, x/c turn, lead diamond river (against thinking players going for x/r is dumb since they don't bet into these many people without nuts). Realistically though repping flushes is suicidal and pure spew. Betting turn doesn't make much sense with 2 callers that could either slowplay KJ unless you'd want to play it as if you had set+nfdraw and bet/call lead diamonds. Spewy though with these monkeys. I think you should go for bet bet check sometimes to protect the times you bet bet KJ and x/f on a pairing river, yeah i'd like your line with the nuts but just A9dd and AJdd, this deep str flush is a concern facing a bet 3way. Btw remember this hand and post number 5 http://www.runitonce.com/plo/unknown-that-stationd-vs-nut-blocker-po/

i prolly 3bet something like 9% btn vs co but against this kind of fish it goes up to 20 not 12. But maybe that's just me.

First of all, always reraise the limper with this monster. I would not call your call crazy, it's pretty trivial with this line. I like x/r flop but since you led i think i like checking turn and he's not repping anything otr, looks like 78jt, easy snap.

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So leading flop, calling raise, x/c Kh and bluffing hearts w/o a heart in our hand is the combinatorics i wasn't aware of?! Where you learn dis knowledge?