Nikopolidis
4 points
I want to add, I think that hes cold calling range here is likely to be very wide, he is one of the toughest players at this level. Against a more average opponent or fish I think betting is by far best.
I just think against this particular opponent (loose-aggressive who likes to play deep) wouldnt we want to
1)kind of pot control and keep pots small with our whole range on this board?
2)That way it stays uncapped, we play smaller pots on this very bad flop for our range?
3) Have a bit of deception when we do hit a 4 or 5/ and the villain decides to go crazy with JT98 type rundown with us so deep and try to blow us off our hand? Also possible that he just has a bare 4 or 5 with wraps / open enders thinking that our range leans towards AAxx KKxx and we are pretty face up, and that way we should win 2 big bets on later streets?
4) I dont think we have as much fold equity as we think when betting this board. And even against the hands we beat, we are pushing a very slim amount of equity/value right ? Im pretty confident that the villain even floats like bare QQxx with a backdoor here just to take it down later.
Aug. 15, 2014 | 9:41 a.m.
Yea I totally agree with raise folding.
We are just in a too terrible spot being OOP and doing very bad against his range and bad playability.
Therefore I think c/c is superior option av thinking about it for a while now. Do you agree?
If we check call this hand along with some JT98 combos and some overpairs, we are quite hard to exploit?
Betting I think sets us up for being outplayed basically very easily. Do you agree in checking is the best option?
I dont like folding so bet folding goes against my instinct :D
Aug. 14, 2014 | 11:56 p.m.
More of this Phil ! You have an incredible talent for teaching and thinking about every possible scenario. Great stuff!
Aug. 12, 2014 | 11:11 p.m.
CO: CO: 35.28
BN: BTN: 415.22
SB: Hero: 308.81
BB: BB: 640.66
This is my first post here on the forum. I played a very interesting hand recently while 2 tabling @ Svenska Spel 50/100 kr which is basically 7,5/15 $ blinds.
Note that the stack sizes are very deep in this hand.
UTG folds, CO raises to 2.88, BTN folds, Hero raises to 9.63, BB calls 8.63, CO calls 6.75
The big blind is a pretty loose aggressive player winning reg.
I get very suprised when the Big Blind repots it here. At first I dont think I can bet fold this(.....?)
without being totally expolited.
I dont put the big blind on a HUGELY wide cold calling range pre here, although im not extremely condifent in that particular read due to stack sizes.
My read here was that be was basically repping topset, and some possible wraps, neither hands i really want to 3bet get it in against on the flop. So having mostly balance in mind I decided to call ( which I think now after is kinda bad )
What do you guys think?
Should we always be checking calling here on the flop ?
Should we always fold when being raised on the flop?
Or can we peel and get it in on some turns? (we have a few pretty good turns here for our hand but not alot)
Really would like som help on this hand!
I think I fold here, because river should be hitting your range quite a bit too. I don´t think this is a good bluffing card for him at all, and with no history I think it is a clear fold against regs for sure.
Not too worried about being exploited to be honest either, because te only reasonable hand to do this with as a bluff is JJTx which he will have a quite tiny amount of the time when 3betting OOP.
Aug. 17, 2014 | 8:25 p.m.