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Early in a big tournament. Blinds 30/60. Everyone has well above 100BB. MP is dealt AdAs and open raises 3x. BB calls. Flop comes 6c7c2h. BB checks, MP bets slightly above half the pot, BB raises 3xMP bet, MP calls. Turn 4d and BB bets 2/3 of the pot. What do you do?
 
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4bet if he raises and is VABank. A pair of knock of 77 but if he has 2 pairs of 77 and 66 is bad. up can be a flush draw or straight draw and gonna make it and if you have probably the strongest hand
 
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Statistics of the opponent would be good to see. And what we play: a freeroll, in which 10K players or a tournament with some BI.
 
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if it's a big tournament and you don't have enough info MP should play slow or fold after turn. only a maniac can play enough chips with only a low pair after turn.
 
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Hi guys.

Early in a big tournament. Blinds 30/60. Everyone has well above 100BB. MP is dealt AdAs and open raises 3x. BB calls. Flop comes 6c7c2h. BB checks, MP bets slightly above half the pot, BB raises 3xMP bet, MP calls. Turn 4d and BB bets 2/3 of the pot. What do you do?

Ha ha, i don´t know. If early in a big tournament, you should to fold with the first raise.
 
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Hi guys.

Early in a big tournament. Blinds 30/60. Everyone has well above 100BB. MP is dealt AdAs and open raises 3x. BB calls. Flop comes 6c7c2h. BB checks, MP bets slightly above half the pot, BB raises 3xMP bet, MP calls. Turn 4d and BB bets 2/3 of the pot. What do you do?

Depends on how "big" of a tournament it is and also what type of opponent you are playing against. Is BB a nit? Tight-aggressive? A maniac? All of these factor into how you play the hand early on, but let's look at this from a GTO perspective:

You're near the top of your range here on a 6c7c2h board. The only other hands that you have for value better than AA are 67s (3 combos), 66 (3 combos), 77 (3 combos) and 22 (3 combos). That's 12 combos of hands out of the multitude of your opening range from MP, which I'm going to assume is a decent chunk of hands. Also keep in mind that, besides high-equity combo draws, these are also the small percentage of hands that your opponent can have in the BB raising for value. So we certainly can't fold the flop, as this would be too exploitable. You also do not have the A of clubs in your hand, which gives the BB more combinations of bluffs. Not to mention all the airball bluffs that the BB can just have anyway. The 4d turn really only completes a 53 or 85s, with 85s being the more likely of the two.

Depending on your opponent and how the board runs out, I think you just have to call down here unless your opponent is a big NIT and is just never bluffing or semi-bluffing here. Folding would be too exploitable, as there are just more combinations of bluffs in our opponents range than value for the most part in the BB on this flop. Most thinking players from the BB will realize that this flop hits their range much harder than yours, and will sometimes just raise with no equity because they know you can't continue without a pair+. Raising would be a mistake imo, as we get all bluffs to fold and only hands that beat ours to continue, but unless we have a soul read on our opponent or the river comes the 5 of clubs, I think you should just call down in most spots against decent opponents.
 
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Thanks. Later on it turned out that the guy was a loose cannon. Anyway, I folded my hand after turn.
 
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Check/call down. It's not the greatest spot as he's shown two streets of aggression and that flop smashes his range and is misses yours. However as pointed out you're at the top of your range so need to get to showdown. Size of the river bet in this situation would normally highlight whether they've got anything, I may fold the river to a big bet if I know villain isn't a maniac.
 
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Prolly a good fold. This board hits the BB's raise range hard, and most likely had a small set or 2pair suited combo.
 
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Just wait and play only big hands (pairs, AK , A Q).
 
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I will loose my stack in that hand with AA proly:))
 
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The BB did not re-raise your pre-flop raise so we can probably rule out a strong pair like TT or better. BB check-raise the flop so it's highly unlikely that he's bluffing. He definitely has a hand but what? It's not AK/Ax because then he would have either folded or if he was stupid would try to keep the betting low and hope for an Ace on the turn.

So, that leaves either a small pair like 33 to 99 or connectors like 67. My guess? He flopped trips or 2 pair. A fold would be correct here. You might be folding the better hand but with the little information we have to go on it's very likely you're in trouble. Lick your wounds and wait for the next one.

Edit - If you had re-raised his check-raise you would have known exactly where you stand. Only a made hand or complete idiot would have called or re-raised you in that spot.
 
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I would close my eyes, click around the screen and let the destiny decide :D
 
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