Domce

Yes I called as it was the plan for all the river cards out there, unfortunately saw him having 6543.

Thanks guys for the answers, looks like betting the flop would have been a better decision as not a single of you liked my check there, well, live and learn :)

I agree with you looks like raising small wasn't a good idea, I just didn't think he could have Ace high spades there ever with his given line, wanted to keep weak hands in & induce light ship out there, didn't work out though :)

Nice first post :) The thing is I played with Kimokh quite a bit lately & I don't think there are that many Axxx combos he is folding there & he got quite a few Axxx combos in his range there as he doesn't like to fold them pre, the key problem is if we are showing AAxx or not on the flop as if we don't have it in our shoving range, it's not that bad of a call from his side taking into account pot odds and that Berri has big troubles htting this flop hard with his range.

Yea I think the same by betting small/folding we lose too much equity, while making incorrect folds & I think u should take diamond turns into consideration as well.

x/jam is better in my opinion as we are not folding out hands in good shape (he will bet those hands to our check anyway, unless it's some 86ddxx & your opp is capable of checking it) in case we bet & it's a flop, which hits opener's range better than yours so he will shoot a bet with quite a wide range unless he has some specific reads that you are not check/folding in 3 bet pots, which I assume about your description he won't be having.

What's the plan for various turns? For a bet of this sizing u will get super wide range of calls, any open-ender is calling you, some of them might even get it in and u will make incorrect folds. 

Taking that into account & knowing that tjbentham is a decent reg, don't you think he can check his premiums expecting mikki will stab most of the time as he is getting mikki's shove every time he has get it in hand & gets bluffs as well while checking.

Sound like a plan, the backup for getting it in vs mikki ? 

It depends a lot, I have been playing poker for quite some time and there is time when your strategy works out and the time, when people realize how to play back at you, ups and downs like in every thing in your life :) I went up from playing 0.02/0.05$ long time ago :) Getting back to the hand I decided to check fold against tjbenham's bet, most likely to fold to mikky's bet as well :)

Hello there, quite an interesting hand, i think it's fold because of the following reasons :

1) if u know that utg is comming with w/e he has there btn will pop it to 8600*5= 43k if my math doesn't lie, that means u r left to act with 8k to 124600, which means u need slightly over 6% equity to get it in on a flop, so u r basically folding almost no flops.

2) I assume u feel quite confident about your edge in the game & as u mentioned some players are weak and some are even leaving the table in case they bust in this pot so that makes no sense for u to gamble it up, just get the game wild.

3) your range & UTG range in that spot is pretty much close, lower run downs are easier to fold for you as they get crushed by yours.

4) With the given data you are around break even or quite behind in equity versus other ranges most likely. 

I think it's a more of a fold preflop once u get a 3bet in this spot with 100bb effective as it will be very hard for u to play profitable vs his range, while calling a 3bet.

The key problem is that there are almost no worse hands, which are folding & Benny is quite capable of having there value hands, which with he would just call the turn. I barreled the river as well, but after some time I figured out that there were almost no better hands, which he is folding on the river, maybe Axxx, with a better kicker as if he decides to call with a value hand on the turn he is almost never folding the river, so I came up with the idea that even check/calling is better than shooting another bullet there, but most likely check/fold is the best or maybe even shooting a small river bet as he most likely won't have a raising range unless it's complete nuts. Tam M u might be right, but the problem is that lower turn sizing widens up his turn calling range, key factor is that there was a straddle so our stack size from bb perspective declines.

4bet/folding pre is the best option for balancing against decent/good thinking reg (talking about SB) especially with 3bet of 8,5+% overall in a long run, in case it's a tighter reg with 3bet something below 6% on a quite a big sample or a true bummie, just calling is most likely a better option, once you get this flop u got two options :

1) against decent reg flop calling is the best option in my opinion, on this turn u should just call in case u have some dynamics going on between you two & build plan for different rivers, however in case it's a decent reg he won't have this type of bet sizing on the turn too often, u should take a look at his ranges in similiar spots and note it.

2) against "honest" type bummie I would like to see u raise folding from time to time in this spot on the flop, because u block flush draws, most likely he won't even fight back with AA with s blocker, might fold lot's of decent equity hands. Of course u can peel the flop, once u face this extremly strong bet on the turn you should consider folding as u r basically flipping vs bottom of his range and get quite crushed against value range. I think your folding equity is extremly low on the turn against such type of player.

Take care and good luck on improving your game ;)

So I have 485 hands sample against Jeans on Pokerstars this year (don't think it's good to bring up too old  statistic samples as PLO is developing rapidly), which is way too small to make any strong assumptions, however from this sample I can see that his cold calling 3bet range is 3,4%, which is probably a bit lower than average %, which today's regulars tend to have, although it's neccessary to mention that most of my hands against Jeans are at 50/100 and regulars tend to play on the tighter side, while they move to the higher stakes just because of different game dynamics. As I mentioned before I think Jeans is calling there double suited AQ32, AK32, maybe AJ32, but thats it. Albin produced a quite good range vs range analysis as long as we take out all naked sets and monster hands, which he might play tricky from to time, however I am not sure if he would ever do that with monster hand.

Hello there, sorry for late reply A23x combos will be there as double suited combos with AK and AQ of course they will be very rare as some of them he might even 4bet. I don't have big enough sample at my current database to make any assumptions about his 3bet cold calling range & I don't think can't beat may be the reason for wider cold calling range, however assuming I am in the pot and we have long history he might do it with wider range against me as he likes to battle against me :)

I think 3bet on a flop is a bad decision, especially given that you told he has raised paired flops before (you kick out the bluffs, which is not what u wanna do). If it's a smart guy he will use that 3bet against you quite easily with Kxxx combos & even hands like QJTx occasionally. Given the line that you played it's more of a shove than a check back, because u r beating his calling range.