$100 NLHE 6-max: $100 NLHE Doyle Brunson Suited on Cutoff vs. UTG

TheSeaWizard · Apr 2, 2019

This hand takes place in ignition Casino's $100 max buy-in cash game with a 6-max table short of only one player from the maximum.

SB: ?? ($90.75)
BB: ?? ($44.17)
Villain: ?? ($100)
Hero

($202.45)
Button: ?? ($128.63)

SB: $0.50
BB: $1
Villain: $2.50 (Raise)
Hero: $2.50 (Call)
Button: Fold
SB: Fold
BB: $2.50 (Call)

Flop:

(Pot: $5)

BB: Check
Villain: $5 (Bet)
Hero: $5 (Call)
BB: Fold

Turn:

(Pot: $15)

Villain: $12.95 (Bet)
Hero: $12.95 (Call)

River:

(Pot: $40.90)

Villain: Check
Hero: $182 (All-in)
Villain: $79.55 (Call*)
Hero takes back $102.45 since villain is short-stacked in comparison.

* = Villain pondered for about ten seconds about whether or not to call my all-in.

Hero reveals

for the ten-high straight.
Villain mucks two-pair of

(I looked through my hand history on Ignition to know that the villain had two-pair).

Hero wins pot of $200 (total pot would have been $203 without the rake).

Now I must ask you folks, based on what you have seen here, what do you make of how the hand was played? Would you have played this hand differently? What advice would you have for me playing

on the cutoff? What advice would you have for the villain playing

UTG?

Mortis · Apr 2, 2019

Fold pre-flop.

SirYivx · Apr 2, 2019

Yeah I'm pretty much never playing this hand on purpose but once we call it pre-flop, we definitely aren't folding when we flop a flush draw.

The turn is the best card for us that isn't a club. Villain bets large but we pick up even more equity, and our implied odds are looking pretty good to get paid if we hit our card.

We hit our card on the river and get put all-in. Since we got this far with T2, we aren't folding now. Villain is trying to rep a hand that we block(like JT) by shoving the river on this runout. We are pretty much burning money by calling with a hand like this pre-flop, but congrats on getting there and getting paid lol.

quant1986 · Apr 2, 2019

I agree just fold pre. Villain has capped his range by not betting river so I like your river shove as played.

Villain has blocked some T9 combos but not flush draws so I cannot fault he bluff-catched with top two pairs here. Would you shove if river is a brick?

Sidetracked · Apr 2, 2019

Fold preflop

c9h13no3 · Apr 2, 2019

Yeah, because your opponent bet the flop & turn, he's clearly not bad enough to play T2s against. Either your read is wrong, or you're the fish at this table for playing T2s.

TheSeaWizard · Apr 2, 2019

SirYivx said:
Yeah I'm pretty much never playing this hand on purpose but once we call it pre-flop, we definitely aren't folding when we flop a flush draw.

The turn is the best card for us that isn't a club. Villain bets large but we pick up even more equity, and our implied odds are looking pretty good to get paid if we hit our card.

We hit our card on the river and get put all-in. Since we got this far with T2, we aren't folding now. Villain is trying to rep a hand that we block(like JT) by shoving the river on this runout. We are pretty much burning money by calling with a hand like this pre-flop, but congrats on getting there and getting paid lol.

A lot of people wouldn't play

preflop most of the time. In fact, it's not even a hand I myself play normally here. I usually play pretty much all pocket pairs and premium hands in any position and other hands like suited connectors and low to middle aces on the button. But with variance, anything can happen.

quant1986 said:
I agree just fold pre. Villain has capped his range by not betting river so I like your river shove as played.

Villain has blocked some T9 combos but not flush draws so I cannot fault he bluff-catched with top two pairs here. Would you shove if river is a brick?

Probably not. I wouldn't even shove if it's just a pair for me on the river.

c9h13no3 said:
Yeah, because your opponent bet the flop & turn, he's clearly not bad enough to play T2s against. Either your read is wrong, or you're the fish at this table for playing T2s.

I get your point that

is a stronger hand than

. But wouldn't you consider $2.50 to be too small of a raise for

? The reason why I called with my hand was because:

1. I had position.
2. I had suited cards.
3. I had the biggest stack during the hand.
4. My opponent showed weakness.

Plus throughout the session, I was playing more tighter than not. You are right however that his flopped two pair would have had me crushed. I'm not against the idea of folding

preflop but I felt the need to call that time based on the hole from my opponent's play. It wasn't a bad play from my opponent, I just didn't feel he was aggressive enough.