Sean Hew

I am actually the villain in this hand. Hero (the actual villain) ended up tank calling with the 9hi flush. I had Kh10d for the nut straight that I turned into a bluff with my nut flush blocker. Anyone think my river shove is good? At the time, I thought villain would be folding basically 100% of their range, except maybe the Jhi flush. I am pretty sure I would of folded if I were villain.

However, if you somehow end up with 4x here (45 maybe) then I would be leading river and probably just overbet jamming since I don't expect a random half stack player to fold Ax here.

Agreed with Dario. If you lead he can jam all of his Ax and 4x. All you can do is call hoping for a chop. Not a spot you really want to put yourself in. 

I would probably just c/c OTR. 

I honestly don't like having a turn c/r range in my game. So I won't really comment on that. (I think it makes it too difficult to balance your entire range)

I do want to ask why you don't have a c/r range on mono-tone flops? This hand plays better as a c/r on the flop. You can barrel any diamond, K, Q, 8, 7. Being able to c/r gutters and bd fd or overs and bd fds, AA and KK that you flatted pre to induce BB to squeeze, sets, Q10 and top two allows you to play the hand much easier imo. C/Cing K hi on the flop is going to make it a very tricky/tough hand to play.

As most have stated, I am not all that thrilled about the squeeze pre. 

As played, I think once you bet the turn you should be following through on all non 10x rivers. However, I agree with the bet sizing discussion going in that you should be betting larger on the turn and 2/3 pot shove on the river (as a side note, you make much more money this way when your bluff works and because of that your bluff doesn't have to work as often). 

Additionally, I am not 100% advocating for it but you could also c/r all in the turn. As long as you do that some % of the time with AA/KK to balance when you do it with Axc. Worse case scenario you get to realize your equity for free. I think I like bet, bet, shove better but I def like c/r all in better than pot flop and shove turn. 

Mr. Sneeze I don't necessarily agree that checking AA here makes you exploitable.

Your default should be to cbet this. You don't have to cbet every time and I actually like checking this with AA a decent % of the time. I also don't mind giving up on this board when you have complete air and no bd/good barrel cards on turns too. This spot seems great for villain to float if hero bets 100% of their range here and will have a hard time barreling off with a good % of it (I believe Mr. Sneeze is advocating for cbetting 100% of your range here, I believe that is a leak).

Personally, I would construct my range to be something like: Cbet hands that turns cards that can barrel (Overcards/straight cards) and medium straight cards with bd flush (i.e. 89s) nearly 100% of the time. Cbet my value hands (88+ and 10x) nearly 100% of the time except maybe AA and KK can be bet 70% and check/call 30%. Check fold hands with no good barrel cards/nearly zero equity. A range such as this seems like it should be well balanced and tough to exploit.

Additionally, the frequency (%) I check the flop with AA or KK could also just be based off opponents floating or bet when checked to %. You could construct your range by choosing some relatively high number as an inflection point for "bet when checked to %" when vs opponents in this spot. I.e. you bet when their % is lower than 65% but check when it is higher than 65% etc. 

I think its probably -EV in all formations except for maybe BTN or CO open vs SB/BB 3bet.

Villain rarely flats here with AA, KK and he may get it in with 99-JJ or possibly worse if he thinks you are a spazz/over aggro/fight over these kind of boards. If you just call the flop raise then it makes turns and rivers tricky since you are essentially closing your eyes and clicking call twice (which sucks on K or A run outs, which is 25% of all run outs). I like flatting with KK or AA since you have much less to worry about/protect against.

Shoving with QQ or JJ here seems fine. He isn't repping anything and is just bluffing a huge % of the time. I would take a note that he is capable of this and move on. Also important to note, that villain is probably unbalanced here and doesn't raise enough value hands on the flop. (Generalized assumption for aggro regs at .5/1). With AA or KK I flat and check the turn.

Is everyone really that scared of him having AAxx? We have a blocker so there is 1 combo of AA. There are way more combos of FD+SD, bottom set, even top two that just might play somewhat similiar. 

I think it also important to note that he probably discounts us having AAxx here as we didn't 3bet pre. I could see a thinking player playing his draws ultra aggro in this spot as he knows that his range is uncapped and ours is pretty likely to be capped at what we have. 

As played, I think I am ok shipping it on the turn. Only 1 combo of hands beat us and he can still have a bunch of combo draws that we would like to charge. 

Folding turn is fine imo. You really only have KKxx beat. Checking flop and calling the turn when it is a club, A or Q and jamming if you hit your straight (freeroll his straight w/ your FH outs) seems like a decent plan.

As played, please fold. The nit isn't bluffing enough for you to think about making this call. He could be comfortably value betting a set or straight here and its ambitious to think he is bluffing with missed spades (KKxx is the only thing a nit would barrell off here as a bluff imo)

I don't really like the flop shove. People are not bluff raising flops often enough at 100nl to do this imo. Unless you have a read that this guy is a maniac and just bluffs at every opportunity he gets, I would shy away from shoving here. Seems too spewy.

As for the guy who said to c/f this flop, I think that is horrible advice. This board is fine to bet and you can easily barrel 3 streets if you hit an A, K, Q, J or any diamond on the turn. I believe bet/fold on the flop w/o any compelling reads would be a better line. The reads you gave were based on the general population of 100nl and I don't think they strong enough of an arguement to spew here imo. 

Well played vs any reg. Would only fold vs a passive fish. nh

Villain has a 3b % of 6. That's quite low (although his 3b from blinds may a bit higher). His range is pretty strong and is probably capable of calling a 4b or shoving. I'd happily click it back here and I suspect its the best play vs this specific villain. 

As played without any additional stats on villains barreling or even general post flop tendencies, I would be inclined to call and call most rivers. You are beating a decent portion of his value range and villain may value cut himself fairly often in this spot. 

Maybe I am just a nit but I would of just folded pre. If your looking to check back some hands choose ones that have a chance of improving, say  top pair and a gutshot or top pair + bdfd. Hands like these where no turn card is really all that great for you, I just think it is better to bet and try to take it down on the flop. 

Please c-bet this flop.

I don't know how good villain is but he should be turning a lot of his hands into bluffs. Its pretty easy to recognize that you never have a full house here since you don't ever check JJ or KK on the flop. Honestly, I wouldn't even think you could have the nut flush here since most would bet the flop (maybe naked nut flush wouldn't, its debatable but I would presume most people would). 

In your spot I think betting the river gives him an easy bluff spot that makes it pretty hard for you do anything about. It may sound results orientated, but I would just c/c the river. When you bet the river for value, your hoping you will be called by a Q high flush (K high would most likely bet the flop with a pair + fd in position after 2 people check). 

I don't really like the 3bet vs an unknown w/o reads. As played, I like cbetting the flop with your bottom 2 and no bdfd trying to take it down now. This turn is one of the worst in the deck for you, easy fold. Checking back with bottom 2 and a bdfd is better imo and allows you to call more turns when he leads.

When you check back this flop what turns are you calling when he leads? Seems like 3/4th of the deck makes it a tough call.

Some of your opponents play was just absurd. Is $400PLO this soft? This is PS too right?

Btw, somewhat unrelated to the video. What do you think about Zoom vs Regular PLO tables?