F Paulsson
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Silver Level
$600 NL HE 6-max: TT on button vs reg in CO
For some reason, this hand history seems to have been eaten by the system so I'll have to do this by memory:
I have the black tens on the button. It's folded to the CO, a 19/17 reg who opens fairly wide in later positions, and he makes it $18. I flat (I could say more about the decision to flat vs 3-betting, but it's not really germane to the point I want to discuss). His stack is $600 and I have him covered.
More on villain: He's pretty good. He has an annoying habit of telling other players how bad they are (which especially pisses me off when it's true), but his tendency to be the table captain doesn't really negate the fact that he's a decent player. He plays a really solid game when he's fresh, but when he plays longer sessions he starts to tilt and will start to overthink things and get overly creative. This hand happened fairly deep into the session.
Flop is 9-4-2, two spades. Pot is ~$43. CO bets $33, I call. He folds often to flop raises, which makes me not want to raise.
Turn is a red five. Pot is $108. CO checks to me. I bet $55 with the intention of checking back the river unimproved. CO check/raises to $140. Pot is now $303, he has $409 behind.
His c/r% is 7% for the turn, and that's over >3k hands.
The fact that he's deep into the session makes my turn decision both easier and more difficult. I mean, early in the session very few hands would make sense for him to have, since I think that checking sets is a serious mistake here and checking overpairs and then check-raising them only makes sense if you intend to fold to a raise (or I'm super-spewy, which I'm not and he knows that). So early in the session I'd give this credit for being a flushdraw more often than a strong hand just because I don't see many strong hands being played this way.
Later in the session, however, I think he's check-raising a bit more erratically. Flushdraws, certainly, but he may also be getting fancy with a set, or a hand like AA, or turning 66 into a bluff. Probably some random air-hands like QJ might decide to try to push me out, too. So while his range is certainly WIDER now that he's played for long, I'm not necessarily sure it's also WEAKER on average.
Thoughts on turn bet (which I think is correct in principle, although sizing can be discussed), and what to do about his check/raise is what I'm after. Feel free to comment on flop line and how the rest of the hand should play out if I don't fold to his turn c/r.
If someone wants me to break down the pros and cons of 3-betting on the button, I can do that too but it's not necessarily in the scope of this thread.
For some reason, this hand history seems to have been eaten by the system so I'll have to do this by memory:
I have the black tens on the button. It's folded to the CO, a 19/17 reg who opens fairly wide in later positions, and he makes it $18. I flat (I could say more about the decision to flat vs 3-betting, but it's not really germane to the point I want to discuss). His stack is $600 and I have him covered.
More on villain: He's pretty good. He has an annoying habit of telling other players how bad they are (which especially pisses me off when it's true), but his tendency to be the table captain doesn't really negate the fact that he's a decent player. He plays a really solid game when he's fresh, but when he plays longer sessions he starts to tilt and will start to overthink things and get overly creative. This hand happened fairly deep into the session.
Flop is 9-4-2, two spades. Pot is ~$43. CO bets $33, I call. He folds often to flop raises, which makes me not want to raise.
Turn is a red five. Pot is $108. CO checks to me. I bet $55 with the intention of checking back the river unimproved. CO check/raises to $140. Pot is now $303, he has $409 behind.
His c/r% is 7% for the turn, and that's over >3k hands.
The fact that he's deep into the session makes my turn decision both easier and more difficult. I mean, early in the session very few hands would make sense for him to have, since I think that checking sets is a serious mistake here and checking overpairs and then check-raising them only makes sense if you intend to fold to a raise (or I'm super-spewy, which I'm not and he knows that). So early in the session I'd give this credit for being a flushdraw more often than a strong hand just because I don't see many strong hands being played this way.
Later in the session, however, I think he's check-raising a bit more erratically. Flushdraws, certainly, but he may also be getting fancy with a set, or a hand like AA, or turning 66 into a bluff. Probably some random air-hands like QJ might decide to try to push me out, too. So while his range is certainly WIDER now that he's played for long, I'm not necessarily sure it's also WEAKER on average.
Thoughts on turn bet (which I think is correct in principle, although sizing can be discussed), and what to do about his check/raise is what I'm after. Feel free to comment on flop line and how the rest of the hand should play out if I don't fold to his turn c/r.
If someone wants me to break down the pros and cons of 3-betting on the button, I can do that too but it's not necessarily in the scope of this thread.