Jacki Burkhart
long winded rambler...
Silver Level
$300 NLHE Full Ring: Call a Jam with TP and OESD on turn?
so I'm a good tourney player just starting to dabble in cash. I only play live $1/2 and $1/3 and generally have been winning, but admittedly running well.
This is a $1/3 game. There is a $1 bad beat jackpot drop and a $3 flat rake per flop.
This table is gold. I've been steadily chipping up and mostly the pots that I've lost I got it in good or folded for cheap when I missed. so I'm up to about $480 off $360 starting.
only 1 other decent player at the table. He's very agressive and 2 to my left. He might be better than me, but if so not by much. He has $172. (57bb). He keeps getting in huge pots with mixed results.
OK, so on to the hand. This table allows a $6 button straddle and the SB has to act first. Me and this other decent player are the only 2 players straddling.
So I'm the button and I straddle for $6 off a $480 (160bb) stack.
SB folds
BB min raises to $12 from a $172 (57bb) stack
folds to Old man in MP who flats. off a $300 (100bb) stack.
I flat with on the button.
This old man is super loose passive preflop and then is really fit or fold and easy to read post flop. He's easy to make fold eventually. He'll often peel flop and fold when draws miss on turn or when texture changes.
Pot contains $33 after the rake
Flop is .
BB checks.
Old man bets $15
I decide this pot will be much easier to play/win with the betting lead and if I knock out the very aggressive SB,
so I raise to $40.
SB flats which surprises me. Draws are likely. I really don’t think preflop he’d min raise a pair 88+ from the BB cuz he knows people will call much bigger bets and a min raise has little fold equity at our table. So sets and overpairs are very unlikely except maybe specifically a set of 4s. I could see him having a Combo draw like QcTc or Tc7c or just a naked flush draw. I doubt he has a hand as weak as 2 overs though.
Old man flats which doesn't surprise me at all.
Pot contains $153. Turn is
SB jams for $120. Old man insta folds.
I go in the tank. I don’t like it. But it feels bluffy to me. It seems to me most likely he’s got a combo draw if that’s the case I’ve made a pair and am now ahead. If I’m behind I’m not dead. It’s less than a pot size jam. Basically the only hands I’m really in bad shape against are QQ and QJ and 44 and I can’t see him min raising the QQ preflop and I’m blocking the QJ (and I don’t think he’d call on the flop with it since I have the Jc).
what do we think? call or fold? losing $120 doesn't mean anything to my life or bankroll....I just want to make the right decision.
so I'm a good tourney player just starting to dabble in cash. I only play live $1/2 and $1/3 and generally have been winning, but admittedly running well.
This is a $1/3 game. There is a $1 bad beat jackpot drop and a $3 flat rake per flop.
This table is gold. I've been steadily chipping up and mostly the pots that I've lost I got it in good or folded for cheap when I missed. so I'm up to about $480 off $360 starting.
only 1 other decent player at the table. He's very agressive and 2 to my left. He might be better than me, but if so not by much. He has $172. (57bb). He keeps getting in huge pots with mixed results.
OK, so on to the hand. This table allows a $6 button straddle and the SB has to act first. Me and this other decent player are the only 2 players straddling.
So I'm the button and I straddle for $6 off a $480 (160bb) stack.
SB folds
BB min raises to $12 from a $172 (57bb) stack
folds to Old man in MP who flats. off a $300 (100bb) stack.
I flat with on the button.
This old man is super loose passive preflop and then is really fit or fold and easy to read post flop. He's easy to make fold eventually. He'll often peel flop and fold when draws miss on turn or when texture changes.
Pot contains $33 after the rake
Flop is .
BB checks.
Old man bets $15
I decide this pot will be much easier to play/win with the betting lead and if I knock out the very aggressive SB,
so I raise to $40.
SB flats which surprises me. Draws are likely. I really don’t think preflop he’d min raise a pair 88+ from the BB cuz he knows people will call much bigger bets and a min raise has little fold equity at our table. So sets and overpairs are very unlikely except maybe specifically a set of 4s. I could see him having a Combo draw like QcTc or Tc7c or just a naked flush draw. I doubt he has a hand as weak as 2 overs though.
Old man flats which doesn't surprise me at all.
Pot contains $153. Turn is
SB jams for $120. Old man insta folds.
I go in the tank. I don’t like it. But it feels bluffy to me. It seems to me most likely he’s got a combo draw if that’s the case I’ve made a pair and am now ahead. If I’m behind I’m not dead. It’s less than a pot size jam. Basically the only hands I’m really in bad shape against are QQ and QJ and 44 and I can’t see him min raising the QQ preflop and I’m blocking the QJ (and I don’t think he’d call on the flop with it since I have the Jc).
what do we think? call or fold? losing $120 doesn't mean anything to my life or bankroll....I just want to make the right decision.
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