$5 NLHE Heads-up: $5 NLHE Heads-up: 2pr on turn, shove or check?

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Hello all, I am trying to improve my headsup game by playing decent micro stake regs on stars. This was a hand I played yesterday that I would appreciate any feedback on. Is turn clear shove or is there merit behind checking give the ace is a scare card.

PokerStars - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 100.4 BB (VPIP: 47.83, PFR: 47.83, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, hands: 29)
Hero (BB): 134 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has K♣A♦

SB raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB calls 6 BB

Flop: (18 BB, 2 players) K♠Q♠2♣
Hero checks, SB bets 9 BB, Hero raises to 27 BB, SB calls 18 BB

Turn: (72 BB, 2 players) A♥
 
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The ace is a bittersweet card. It brings us top 2, but also smashes J-10 right in the eyeball.

However, J-10 is not the only combo V has here. If he has a spade draw, it is either 10, J, or A high. Any of these he is calling probably.

All in all, he has a FD, K-Q, 2-2, or J-10, and not much else (besides rare A-K choppy).

I am not that great with poker stove, but I did plug in some hands I thought V can have here. If I did it correctly (I don't know), it looks like we are 60%+ vs his range.

I think it's ok to shove turn.




Perhaps another member who is solid at ranging and pokerstove would contribute?
 
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Villain also has 2 combinations of AsJs, As10s for flopped gutshots + nut flush draw that turned TP.

It depends on how many flush draws we give him. I think lower suited connectors sometimes just give up preflop when you 3bet. Do we really give him 5 or 6-high flush draw combinations for example. It's very villain dependent. For example, if this was a full table and everyone left, it could be you vs. someone normally used to 6max, and may give up 64s for example on the button when 3-bet, especially if you haven't been 3-betting a lot. It may not be part of their comfort zone. A lot of players will call with J10s but not J10o as well.

We are 55% vs. 22,AKs,KQs,JTs,AsJs,AsTs,Js9s,Ts9s,Ts8s,9s8s,AKo,KQo, I think is reasonable, but 22 and KQ are very unlikely - they would 3bet the flop and try to GII a very high % of the time, so I think the combo draws, bare flush draws, and Jts are most likely.

If we remove those combinations, we have 49.03% vs. AKs,JTs,AsJs,AsTs,Js9s,Ts9s,Ts8s,9s8s,AKo, but adding a few more flush draw combinations puts you back above 50%.

I think you're straight flipping against his range. This being HU, hand over hand, you have about a pot-shoved bet behind, so just shove, be ready for a sweat.
 
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I'm not a fan of check/raising flop... Lets say our opponent is drawing we just gave him a free card and gave up some value.

We really just need to think about betting here and getting it on turn or river.
 
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I c-bet this flop with practically my entire range, so I'm DEFINITELY c-betting when I actually have it.
Check-raising here looks like FPS to me.


As played, the turn is an easy bet, but getting raised will suck monkey balls here...
 
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Easy bet on the turn for protect
 
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