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Tsyphon
Rising Star
Bronze Level
$50 NLHE 6-max: TT BTN, hit set on flop, extracting money from tight player
*The title is wrong, this is a local cash friendly cash game, blinds 0.25/0.50 with set buyin at $20. Halfway through the night they will let people buy in for $40.
This is late into the night a few hands before everyone wants to quit.
5 handed at this point, I'm on the button and just recently shoved pocket 9 with no call and pocket 4 with a call bringing me up to 40bb (normal buy in).
It folds to me, I get TT on the button, raise to 4xBB ($2) on a table where standard is $1.50-2.50.
SB folds, BB who is a very tight player calls. He raises small feeler bets even with TP good kicker unless he has the nuts, in which case he will almost always do 2/3 pot type bets.
- Pot is now $4.25
Flop is T23r, not at all likely to hit his range. He checks, I decide to check since he would likely shutdown to a Cbet.
- Pot still $4.25
Turn is a K, with now no matching suits on the board. He bets $1.50 which is his typical feeler / made but not strong made hand bet. I decide to call feeling that I can get value on the river, and with such a small bet size he would shut down if I raise him.
- Pot is now $7.25
River is an 8 or some other kind of blank. He checks, so I bet $5 hoping the K hit him. He thinks for a bit then folds KQo.
Is my thinking right here? I had a set on the flop, but it was such a dry flop and he is such a tight player I can't see any other actions producing more gain, other than perhaps a 3BB Cbet on the flop which he might not believe with overcards.
I understand that against some players getting money can be hard, and that him folding a pair of kings with a decent kicker makes him quite exploitable, just wanting to see if the line was right. Against any other player on the table I would have been much much more aggressive, such as a 2/3 pot Cbet on the flop, min reraise on the turn, and a 1/2 pot value bet on the river if it was checked to me.
*The title is wrong, this is a local cash friendly cash game, blinds 0.25/0.50 with set buyin at $20. Halfway through the night they will let people buy in for $40.
This is late into the night a few hands before everyone wants to quit.
5 handed at this point, I'm on the button and just recently shoved pocket 9 with no call and pocket 4 with a call bringing me up to 40bb (normal buy in).
It folds to me, I get TT on the button, raise to 4xBB ($2) on a table where standard is $1.50-2.50.
SB folds, BB who is a very tight player calls. He raises small feeler bets even with TP good kicker unless he has the nuts, in which case he will almost always do 2/3 pot type bets.
- Pot is now $4.25
Flop is T23r, not at all likely to hit his range. He checks, I decide to check since he would likely shutdown to a Cbet.
- Pot still $4.25
Turn is a K, with now no matching suits on the board. He bets $1.50 which is his typical feeler / made but not strong made hand bet. I decide to call feeling that I can get value on the river, and with such a small bet size he would shut down if I raise him.
- Pot is now $7.25
River is an 8 or some other kind of blank. He checks, so I bet $5 hoping the K hit him. He thinks for a bit then folds KQo.
Is my thinking right here? I had a set on the flop, but it was such a dry flop and he is such a tight player I can't see any other actions producing more gain, other than perhaps a 3BB Cbet on the flop which he might not believe with overcards.
I understand that against some players getting money can be hard, and that him folding a pair of kings with a decent kicker makes him quite exploitable, just wanting to see if the line was right. Against any other player on the table I would have been much much more aggressive, such as a 2/3 pot Cbet on the flop, min reraise on the turn, and a 1/2 pot value bet on the river if it was checked to me.
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