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6bet me
Visionary
Silver Level
So I just played 200NL ($1/$3 blinds) at my local casino and came across an interesting hand. The players on my table were (to the best of my memory) as follows:
UTG: $150 stack, loose passive but knows how to fold postflop
UTG+1: Sitting out
UTG+2: Sitting out
MP1: $500 stack, decent TAG reg, but had a habit of C-betting every flop as PFR, making it easy to float him and take it away on the turn
MP2: $800 stack, loose passive fish on a massive heater, easily the worst player at the table (and ironically the chip leader). He won most of his stack by limp-calling hands like Q8o and getting runner-runner full house.
Hero (CO): $200 stack, was generally playing TAG-style poker
BTN: $200 stack, loose passive preflop but very aggressive postflop (most aggressive player at the table). Pulled off double/triple barrel bluffs regularly, would donk-bet regularly, would barrel with any draw and often jam river on a busted draw. He also made a lot of thin value bets and tended to get paid off because of how often he bluffed.
SB: $300 stack, loose passive calling station
BB: $250 stack, tight passive nit. I barely saw her play any hands, but I do remember her 3betting preflop with AA by min-raising (she raised from $15 to $30) and then overbet shoving the flop and showing her AA when everyone folded.
Hero is dealt Qs Jd
SB posts $1
BB posts $3
UTG calls $3
MP1 folds
MP2 calls $3
Hero (CO) raises to $15
BTN calls $15
SB calls $14
BB folds
UTG folds
MP2 calls $12
~$60 in pot (4 players)
Flop shows 7s Ks Kc
SB checks
MP2 checks
Hero (CO) checks
BTN checks
~$60 in pot (4 players)
Turn shows 3d
SB checks
MP2 checks
Hero bets $40
BTN calls $40
SB folds
MP2 folds
~$130 in pot (2 players)
River shows Jc
Hero checks
BTN bets $60
Hero ???
I think there are a number of possibilities for what the villain could have here:
- Slow played trips
- Slow played boats
- Busted flush draws (2 spades)
- Low to medium pocket pairs
- Jx hands like J7, J3 or AJ
- Something else?
My plan was to take a stab at the pot on the turn and then check-fold the river if anyone calls, but hitting a pair OTR and facing a bet of less than 1/2 pot made me re-evaluate if I could have the best hand. I am getting slightly better than 2:1 on a call. Do I win often enough to justify this?
UTG: $150 stack, loose passive but knows how to fold postflop
UTG+1: Sitting out
UTG+2: Sitting out
MP1: $500 stack, decent TAG reg, but had a habit of C-betting every flop as PFR, making it easy to float him and take it away on the turn
MP2: $800 stack, loose passive fish on a massive heater, easily the worst player at the table (and ironically the chip leader). He won most of his stack by limp-calling hands like Q8o and getting runner-runner full house.
Hero (CO): $200 stack, was generally playing TAG-style poker
BTN: $200 stack, loose passive preflop but very aggressive postflop (most aggressive player at the table). Pulled off double/triple barrel bluffs regularly, would donk-bet regularly, would barrel with any draw and often jam river on a busted draw. He also made a lot of thin value bets and tended to get paid off because of how often he bluffed.
SB: $300 stack, loose passive calling station
BB: $250 stack, tight passive nit. I barely saw her play any hands, but I do remember her 3betting preflop with AA by min-raising (she raised from $15 to $30) and then overbet shoving the flop and showing her AA when everyone folded.
Hero is dealt Qs Jd
SB posts $1
BB posts $3
UTG calls $3
MP1 folds
MP2 calls $3
Hero (CO) raises to $15
BTN calls $15
SB calls $14
BB folds
UTG folds
MP2 calls $12
~$60 in pot (4 players)
Flop shows 7s Ks Kc
SB checks
MP2 checks
Hero (CO) checks
BTN checks
~$60 in pot (4 players)
Turn shows 3d
SB checks
MP2 checks
Hero bets $40
BTN calls $40
SB folds
MP2 folds
~$130 in pot (2 players)
River shows Jc
Hero checks
BTN bets $60
Hero ???
I think there are a number of possibilities for what the villain could have here:
- Slow played trips
- Slow played boats
- Busted flush draws (2 spades)
- Low to medium pocket pairs
- Jx hands like J7, J3 or AJ
- Something else?
My plan was to take a stab at the pot on the turn and then check-fold the river if anyone calls, but hitting a pair OTR and facing a bet of less than 1/2 pot made me re-evaluate if I could have the best hand. I am getting slightly better than 2:1 on a call. Do I win often enough to justify this?