$20 NLHE 6-max: 25NL- AT TPTK line check.

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$20 NL HE 6-max: 25NL- AT TPTK line check.

poker stars, $0.10/$0.25 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

Hero (MP): $25 (100 bb)
CO: $23.10 (92.4 bb)
BTN: $26.70 (106.8 bb)
SB: $25.10 (100.4 bb)
BB: $12.05 (48.2 bb)
UTG: $35.65 (142.6 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is MP with A
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T
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UTG calls $0.25, Hero raises to $1, CO calls $1, 4 folds

Flop: ($2.60) T
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8
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5
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(2 players)
Hero bets $2, CO calls $2

Turn: ($6.60) 3
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Hero bets $4, CO calls $4

River: ($14.60) 9
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Hero checks, CO bets $8, Hero calls $8

Results: $30.60 pot ($1.45 rake)


Villain is unknown and all i know about him is that he doesnt auto-reload.
I raise prf cause i whant to get HU with the UTG limper who is horrible.
Flop pretty standard c-bet.
Keep betting turn cause the board is so drawy.
River im thinking alot of the draws missed so check and hope he is betting his missed draws or maybe get a free showdown.
Thoughts? Is B/F better?
 
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That's a really bad river. A bunch of his pf calling range (say small/middle prs and suited connectors) now have 2 pr/set/straight. And his bet looks value-ish. b/f could work, but if he is a good player, he'll recognise it for what it is and may play back. Maybe try to bet $5/6, and fold to a raise.

Miserable spot anyway.
 
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I also like b/f river, so many of his hands hit, but several just missed as well.
 
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I think I prefer bet fold on this river. Even though some of the obvious draws missed, (flush, oesd) Some of those hands may have picked up some showdown value along the way, like j9 or a9s for instance, and your still going to get looked up by hands like k10,j10 a good amount of the time. If you got a good read that thier really aggressive and are going to bet this river like every time when y ou check, then that may be a better option. Without that read I wouldn't want to miss out on river value.
 
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I think I like it as played.

We've played this hand pretty straightforward and represented either top pair or an overpair. We've bet every street so far like we've got something solid but we're afraid of the draws - if we had a set, I think we might've tried something sneakier on at least one street to get some more value or played like we're slightly less afraid of the draws.

With that in mind, say we do what he did and lead for $8 on the river: villain probably isn't going to just call that unless he can beat top pair / an overpair, and he may well just give up and fold.

He could shove too, but that'll only be for just over $8 more in a $38.70 pot for us to call. While we're beat a lot of the time by sets / two pairs / made draws, are we really going to fold there for villain's final eight bucks? He only has to be bluffing or semibluffing about what, 20% of the time for us to at least break even? I'd hate it, but I'd probably have to call.

If we check with the intention of calling a reasonable bet, however, we're getting pot control (in a roundabout kind of way) and we're likely in much better shape against the villain's range too. He should be bluffing with missed draws / pair and a missed draw a lot of the time, hoping that we're scared by the nine and folding our high pair. And if he checks behind I'm much happier with a free showdown than I am the scenario above where we bet and face either a fold or a shove.

So yeah - I like the hand as played a lot more than I like bet/folding.
 
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Not that it matters but villain showed up with AKo. So no draws or anything.
 
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That's a really bad river. A bunch of his pf calling range (say small/middle prs and suited connectors) now have 2 pr/set/straight. And his bet looks value-ish. b/f could work, but if he is a good player, he'll recognise it for what it is and may play back. Maybe try to bet $5/6, and fold to a raise.

Miserable spot anyway.


If you are implying that villian is double floating to raise a river(triple barrell) bet you are giving him an incredible amount of credit here which is quite absurd at anything under much much higher stakes.

I also dont really think you can bet fold here since he pretty much only has a pot bet sized stack left, you would really be getting too good of odds to call(if you bet 10 he has like 6 left). Betting for value is a viable option though as JT, QT, KT look you up as well as some A9 A8 hands. I like the check call though as long as there is a chance he may take a stab at it.
 
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