$200 NLHE Full Ring: flopped baby flush

I am an hour into a live session with mostly players I have never played with. I have been active due to some run good and have the biggest stack at the table at $650, but have only gotten to showdown once (flopped set). Villains stack is $150 and he arrived about 15 minutes earlier. He hasn't gotten involved until this hand.

UTG raises to $6
1 call
Villain calls
I call with 3d 4d on the button
both blinds call


6 players, pot $36


flop Ad 2d 9d


checks to villain who bets $20
I call and everyone else folds


Pot $76


Turn 2c


Villain checks
I bet $25
Villain calls


Pot $126

River Ks


Villain checks
I check behind.


Did I play too nitty on all streets?

no. You played it as well as you could given the circumstances. How far was the villian going to go for what was probably a high d? rake it in and store the info for the next hand.

I'm betting the river for value just about always here. You are missing value from all his Ax where his kicker is decent and his 2 pair hands.The check on the turn will be a lot of Ax pot controlling maybe with a diamond as backup. Flushes and boats just keep betting to charge your Ax.

If the pot is 126 and he has 90ish behind then betting around 40 should pick up plenty of calls. If he shoves the extra 50 that sucks but I don't expect it to happen very often. I mean what could it be 99 or 22 or A2. All very unlikely. AA KK and AK all likely would have raised preflop.
As we dont know much about him putting him all in on the end might fold out too much of his Ax so.
Yep I'd bet 40 hoping for calls from AQ AJ AT A9 and maybe some AK.

Figaroo2 said:

I'm betting the river for value just about always here. You are missing value from all his Ax where his kicker is decent and his 2 pair hands.The check on the turn will be a lot of Ax pot controlling maybe with a diamond as backup. Flushes and boats just keep betting to charge your Ax.

If the pot is 126 and he has 90ish behind then betting around 40 should pick up plenty of calls. If he shoves the extra 50 that sucks but I don't expect it to happen very often. I mean what could it be 99 or 22 or A2. All very unlikely. AA KK and AK all likely would have raised preflop.
As we dont know much about him putting him all in on the end might fold out too much of his Ax so.
Yep I'd bet 40 hoping for calls from AQ AJ AT A9 and maybe some AK.

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+1

Yes, I would charge single diamonds more and try to get more value out of Ax. I'd probably raise flop and try to get them to go with one of those hands there.

Bet more on the turn, bet the river. Pretty straightforward hand with near nuts.

I think a better line on this board would be to bet the river something like 1/3 pot and fold to a raise. You want to target the part of his range that can call a bet with a worse hand like Ax or a king of diamonds that made a pair on the river. I think you played the rest of the hand well, your sizing on the turn was perfect to get a worse hand to call. What happened?

mikeisthebestever said:

I think a better line on this board would be to bet the river something like 1/3 pot and fold to a raise. You want to target the part of his range that can call a bet with a worse hand like Ax or a king of diamonds that made a pair on the river. I think you played the rest of the hand well, your sizing on the turn was perfect to get a worse hand to call. What happened?

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Well if you would bet the river and then fold to a raise then why bet at all? You say that you target only a very very small part of the villains range that would just call, but isn't there a danger of opponent hitting a boat or having a better flush and is trapping? In which case why risk it? Also, If he would fold to a bet on the river with worse hands then ones you stated above, then what is the point of betting in the first place, you are winning at showdown regardless.


The hand is played quite good. I would only consider 3-betting pre flop, especially since you are on the button. If you tend to just call like you did, tbh, you will lose those chips 9/10 times, unless you believe to be very strong post flop player and able to bluff villains off their hands.

What about on the flop? Any merit to raising here to villains lead? He is leading out with something, and I have most of his range beat right now. Is this a good spot to make him decide if he wants to continue with his Kd hands? It turns my hand face up a bit, but any opinions there?