Over slow play? Maybe...
Hi there Alucard, nice to see your post here again, how you doing?
First I would like to say that you are a far better player than me. That you have way more experience than myself, so I hope my comments do not offend you, or make you feel bad because we are all here trying to improve our game, our thinking level, our criticism.
Second, I would state about your hand, that you have made too much Slow Play in my humble opinion. Because you decided to call a Squeeze from the SB, with the intention to bring the CO Player to the hand, and I don't believe that overall this could be profitable.
Your line of thought is very clear and fine. The CO player, you said, was a little "spewy" one, so if you decided to 4bet right on the spot, both CO and SB could fold and wouldn't get the maximum value.
However when the SB Squeezes you out of position, SB will have all the KK, QQ, JJ, maybe TT, SB will have AKs, AQs, AJs, maybe ATs and an even bigger maybe A5s-A2s (according to your description SB is a nitty player). PS:
We know that is very unlikely that SB could have a lot of combos with Ax, because MP is blocking a fair chunk of them.
What the spewy Player in the CO had called with when Hero MP first Open Raises? And what the Player in the CO could possibly have to call down again a Squeeze MWP?
The CO Player had the advantage of position upon SB and MP, which is not a bad thing.
Being spewy, I assume he could call with a bunch of pocket pairs and suited broadways and strong broadways. For
odds? I am not sure if the Player in the CO had the odds. Let me know what do you and the community think about it.
The Preflop might become a Flop issue
Hero MP elects to call a Squeeze coming from the SB to induce a spewy player in the position ahead to call down with his huge nonsense range of
hands. Very fine and fair.
The Flop comes 6d 6s Kc rainbow and very dry. In a situation like that, the SB player who made a Preflop Squeeze will never have 66 or 6x in his range. And it is most likely that SB might have some Kx in his range with a strong kicker, mostly AKs, AKo, KQs, KJs, and, being a NIT, I don't believe he would be Squeezing MP with KTs or worse.
However, the Player in the SB also has all the combos of Pocket Kings (KK) in his range and the Hero MP and the caller in the CO have none.
It appears to me that this Flop texture didn't hit too much the CO and the SB's Ranges. Dry as the desert, arid and quite easy to read.
Now again, SB checks out of position (default) and Hero MP checks...So, you slow played Aces Preflop, and now Slow play Aces Postflop, maybe because you were out of position, but I guess you were still trying to catch up some bluffs from the CO player and forgetting a little the SB Squeezor/Aggressor.
I really don't like giving rope to my adversaries to hang me in a poker table. When you Check you are giving a free card to a spewy player (CO) and for a nitty (SB) in the Turn? Why too much kindness?
So, if the turn comes a Jx, a Qx, another Kx are you still comfortable and confident that you have the best hand in this scenario? Or, even worse, nothing too much scary happens in the Turn and one of these players decide to ship in a lot of blinds would you still feel safe calling or Shoving upon them?
Another scenario: comes a brick in the Turn such as 2x, 3x, 7x, 8x 9x and so on, and the Player in the CO, specially, decides to put all the ships in. Are you sure he didn't hit a boat in the Turn and are exactly trying to extract from AK and AA, QQ etc? Sure?
How can you make money if you don't make the pot grow and give excelent odds for your adversaries to complete easily and without any concern their
equity turn?
I am not saying that your move is wrong or right. Because I don't believe there is right and wrong in poker. Our actions will rely upon the specific situation we are in.
And, I believe you continued your Slow Play plan against the NIT in the River. Because it comes a brick. When a NIT player out of position bets this small amount in the River, in a very dry river he/she is simply telling you "
Oh, love of my life, please, I beg you call this bet because I want and I need to be paid with my boat, please!".
Anyway, I guess you were forced to slow play in the River, and call down the Nitty small bet (most of times not fear, but pure value, because he/she knows that if he blows up the Pot in a very dry board texture, he/she from the SB will have a lot of folds), because the SB NIT will have a lot of Kx in his Range, as long as Hero MP have none (SB NIT will have KQs, KJs, and rarely AKs or AKo because MP is blocking a few combos). I am quite sure this small bet sizing river simply delivered the Villain's SB plan in our hands.
If you Raise in the River, the Nitty will ONLY pay you/Hero with a Kx boat or Shove upon your head. So I believe the call was the correct play in the River, no matter the result, which you kindly, didn't show. Because it really doesn't matter for what we are studying.
Overall your game-plan was good and well played.
Personally, I would not give a free Turn card out of position not even to Jesus Christ is he came down from heaven and decided to play poker. But, I cannot say it was a bad or wrong play, the important thing is that you know why you did it, what was your plan at the moment, the stats of the players in the table, and their respective images in the moment the action happened. Nice saturday!
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
