S
ssbn743
Visionary
Silver Level
$250/$500/$50 (I had $15,500)
A table just broke, and 2 players were moved to my table. I was in the HJ, and Villain #1 sat down in LJ. The other player sat down in the CO, but too late to play this hand. So basically, I was in the CO.
The HJ/LJ player was in the process of sitting down, still spilling chips onto the table, and opened the first hand he was dealt after it folded to him to $1,500. He had roughly $35K.
I found
Now, for years I’ve met players like this and immediately had a sense of what I was dealing with. He was probably opening too wide a range pre-flop and was almost certainly C-betting too frequently. I felt the implied odds (he had my stack covered by better than 2:1) were present for a set-mine and flat called, expecting a 100% C-bet – which is perfectly fine in a set-mine scenario.
Villain #2, the button (a solid reg I know well) called too, and both blinds folded.
Pot - $5,700
Flop -
Villain #1 did not disappoint and C-bet $2,500. I elected to flat call, pretty much as planned. IMO, raising is pointless unless he has a hand – otherwise I just fold out all the combos I crush. His range, being a lot larger than it should be is the primary reason for that thinking. Even a good portion of the Queens in his range are going to have trouble calling a raise. Then, Villain #2 otb moves all-in for $25K.
Villain #1 goes into the tank for about 2-minutes.
“Ok, so you actually have a Queen here, probably a big one”
“Boy, do I wish I had raised the flop”
“He’s going to have to call this as he knows the button range is drawing/weak made range and he blocks a good portion of those draws” (if he has jq kq aq with any card being a diamond, and so on).
“I feel like I’m going to lose this one” – are all things I was thinking.
He finally overcalls the all-in and I call as well – I don’t know how to fold there.
for HJ, for the Button, and for me.
Pot #1 - $52,200
Pot #2 - ~$20K
Ouch……..
I don’t want this to just be a bad beat story. I do wish I had raised the flop, then we have a shove from the button – and there is no way KQo can make that call. But that’s result orientated – I flat called for a reason. So, just curios if anyone has any thoughts on this one – I feel like it was just my time to lose.
Maybe I should be raising the flop as a default with action behind - Anyone? Bueller…Bueller?
A table just broke, and 2 players were moved to my table. I was in the HJ, and Villain #1 sat down in LJ. The other player sat down in the CO, but too late to play this hand. So basically, I was in the CO.
The HJ/LJ player was in the process of sitting down, still spilling chips onto the table, and opened the first hand he was dealt after it folded to him to $1,500. He had roughly $35K.
I found
Now, for years I’ve met players like this and immediately had a sense of what I was dealing with. He was probably opening too wide a range pre-flop and was almost certainly C-betting too frequently. I felt the implied odds (he had my stack covered by better than 2:1) were present for a set-mine and flat called, expecting a 100% C-bet – which is perfectly fine in a set-mine scenario.
Villain #2, the button (a solid reg I know well) called too, and both blinds folded.
Pot - $5,700
Flop -
Villain #1 did not disappoint and C-bet $2,500. I elected to flat call, pretty much as planned. IMO, raising is pointless unless he has a hand – otherwise I just fold out all the combos I crush. His range, being a lot larger than it should be is the primary reason for that thinking. Even a good portion of the Queens in his range are going to have trouble calling a raise. Then, Villain #2 otb moves all-in for $25K.
Villain #1 goes into the tank for about 2-minutes.
“Ok, so you actually have a Queen here, probably a big one”
“Boy, do I wish I had raised the flop”
“He’s going to have to call this as he knows the button range is drawing/weak made range and he blocks a good portion of those draws” (if he has jq kq aq with any card being a diamond, and so on).
“I feel like I’m going to lose this one” – are all things I was thinking.
He finally overcalls the all-in and I call as well – I don’t know how to fold there.
for HJ, for the Button, and for me.
Pot #1 - $52,200
Pot #2 - ~$20K
Ouch……..
I don’t want this to just be a bad beat story. I do wish I had raised the flop, then we have a shove from the button – and there is no way KQo can make that call. But that’s result orientated – I flat called for a reason. So, just curios if anyone has any thoughts on this one – I feel like it was just my time to lose.
Maybe I should be raising the flop as a default with action behind - Anyone? Bueller…Bueller?
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