$0.50 NLHE MTT: Pocket Queens, Loaded Board

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Winning Poker, Hold'em No Limit - 750/1,500 (75 ante) - 8 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker - https://upswingpoker.com/replayer/4q7nvsw

preciousdolllll (UTG): 74,445 (50 bb)
Rose Dawson (UTG+1): 28,250 (19 bb)
skyhawk56 (MP): 28,900 (19 bb)
inflmara (MP+1): 9,072 (6 bb)
JHmesa (CO): 27,475 (18 bb)
sportsguy16 (BU): 28,775 (19 bb)
Ravarros (SB): 34,749 (23 bb)
Sam Harvey (BB): 31,750 (21 bb)

Pre-Flop: (2,850) Hero (sportsguy16) is BTN with Q♠ Q♦
5 players fold, sportsguy16 (BU) raises to 3,000, Ravarros (SB) calls 2,250, Sam Harvey (BB) calls 1,500

Flop: (9,600) A♦ 9♣ 6♠ (3 players)
Ravarros (SB) bets 1,500, Sam Harvey (BB) folds, sportsguy16 (BU) calls 1,500

Turn: (12,600) 7♦ (2 players)
Ravarros (SB) checks, sportsguy16 (BU) checks

River: (12,600) 4♣ (2 players)
Ravarros (SB) bets 3,000, sportsguy16 (BU) calls 3,000

Total pot: 18,600

Showdown:
Ravarros (SB) shows 5♥ A♥ (a pair of Aces)
(equity - Pre-Flop: 33%, Flop: 91%, Turn: 95%, River: 100%)

sportsguy16 (BU) mucks Q♠ Q♦ (a pair of Queens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 67%, Flop: 9%, Turn: 5%, River: 0%)

Ravarros (SB) wins 18,600
 
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Just want to mention that I played this hand with the Upswing Post Flop Gameplan Strategy, and I had this hand in category two (play passively) the entire time
 
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Seem fine to me. Against these incredibly small bet sizes you are supposed to call wide, because otherwise you make bluffing way to profitable for him, or you even become the victim of an accidental value bluff. You could open a bit bigger preflop than just a mini-raise, but its a small detail.
 
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I would raise 3x pre; I wouldn't mind a shove with 19bb either. If we collect the blinds we can increase our stack by 10%.


With such a small stack I'm not sure About your call. Because if he donkbets the flop, it could get expansive and we can't call for a 2 outer with such a small stack. Although the min-bet is tempting to call.
So Maybe reraise to get him off his weak Ace or even fold.
 
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Seems fine the way you played it. I like shoving 19bb but since the table average was pretty short I think min raising is a good play. You can raise a tiny bit bigger but then you have consider what strategy you’re playing and if you’re raising all good hands the same or not.
 
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Thanks for all the advice guys!
 
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I'd push 19bb, too. This is how we balance the range, we have a lot of weak aces, one-piece broadway, pocket pairs. We will often be opened hands weaker, thereby giving us equity. On hand, played well too.
 
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I think you played it fine, I would have done the same thing. Your opponent bets small, he may be doing that with projects or with weaker hands than yours
 
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Winning Poker, Hold'em No Limit - 750/1,500 (75 ante) - 8 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker - https://upswingpoker.com/replayer/4q7nvsw

preciousdolllll (UTG): 74,445 (50 bb)
Rose Dawson (UTG+1): 28,250 (19 bb)
skyhawk56 (MP): 28,900 (19 bb)
inflmara (MP+1): 9,072 (6 bb)
JHmesa (CO): 27,475 (18 bb)
sportsguy16 (BU): 28,775 (19 bb)
Ravarros (SB): 34,749 (23 bb)
Sam Harvey (BB): 31,750 (21 bb)

Pre-Flop: (2,850) Hero (sportsguy16) is BTN with Q♠ Q♦
5 players fold, sportsguy16 (BU) raises to 3,000, Ravarros (SB) calls 2,250, Sam Harvey (BB) calls 1,500

Flop: (9,600) A♦ 9♣ 6♠ (3 players)
Ravarros (SB) bets 1,500, Sam Harvey (BB) folds, sportsguy16 (BU) calls 1,500

Turn: (12,600) 7♦ (2 players)
Ravarros (SB) checks, sportsguy16 (BU) checks

River: (12,600) 4♣ (2 players)
Ravarros (SB) bets 3,000, sportsguy16 (BU) calls 3,000

Total pot: 18,600

Showdown:
Ravarros (SB) shows 5♥ A♥ (a pair of Aces)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 33%, Flop: 91%, Turn: 95%, River: 100%)

sportsguy16 (BU) mucks Q♠ Q♦ (a pair of Queens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 67%, Flop: 9%, Turn: 5%, River: 0%)

Ravarros (SB) wins 18,600

I’m going to comment as I watch the hand in the re-player

Pre
Pre-flop the min-click is fine with the stack sizes, however, I prefer to go 2.25x here simply to make sure we’re not giving the BB too good a price. Either way is fine, but if you choose to min-click be aware of how it looks from the BB’s perspective.

Given the stack sizes, there is no hand the SB should be calling here with, not a single combo, so we have that going for us – he’s making a mistake without question.

Flop
This is a pretty common spot with weak players – and one that deserves some philosophical discussion.

Having studied the crap out of Poker like I do, as a default we’re going to have to peel a card here.

However, Ax is exactly the kind of hand a donk would flat/donk from the SB with – they turn their hands face-up being stations and donks.

Additionally, what else could he have? Set of nines or sixes is about it, and yes even more often than you would believe, AA, but his range is pretty polarized, either has AA or 99, or a4 or k9.

In these posts, I like to look ahead another street:
1. Is he going to bet turn?
2. Do I fold if I don’t spike Queen?

I think the answer to both of these questions, in this hand, are yes. Therefore I think I like a fold on the flop, as nitty as it may seem – he has it, we know he has it (even as horrible as it is), fold and find a better spot.

Turn
Ok, so we chose to peel a card – definitely the standard play, I’ve just found standard, when dealing with donks to be painful.

The standard play, here, is to bet turn when checked to - he’s pretty much telling is he doesn’t have AA or 99.

We’ve chosen standard line so far, so I see no reason not to bet. We still have a lot of big aces in our range, as well as many sets. His range just got a lot smaller, we know he doesn’t have a clear value hand like 99, could easily be something like a2, a3, a4.

Checking back is not good here – now we’re in the same spot guessing on the river. We definitely need to fire turn here as played. This keeps our entire range in the hand and makes him guess, not us.

River
As played, probably a call – but we don’t like it.

Yep…. Gotta love them huh? And just for the record, I almost called his hand :)
So bad, I almost threw up watching it.
 
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