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ssbn743
Visionary
Silver Level
This is the 2nd level of deep stack tournament; the blinds are 100/200 with 40K stacks to start. A good and very aggressive player that I have played before gets moved to my table and hasn’t yet played a hand, he waits about 10 hands before playing.
I am in the BB and he raises from MP to a standard raise of 600. Everyone folds including the SB and it is just him and I heads up. I think about folding before I even look at my cards since I will be out of position the entire hand against a very aggressive player. However, I also don’t want him to get the idea that he can steal my blind whenever he wants and I am deep stacked enough to make this call with some hands that I would not normally play. I looked down and find AdJd and naturally like this hand better than what I was expecting to find. I could raise here, but again what does he have in his range? He is capable of playing ATC but I don’t think that’s the case here and even if AJ is ahead it is not by much. I hate this position and am feeling very awkward! Most of the problem has to do with what I believe to be his perception of my hand and my lack of position. If I call and like the flop, he is likely to fold since my hand will be so transparent, on the other hand I’m likely to lose a bet if I miss and have to fold. Anyway, I reluctantly make the call.
The flop, 9d 8s 4d. Against his MP range, I like this flop and am not willing to give up just yet. But how do I proceed?
1. Bet into him, betting about 50% of the pot, hoping for a free river if I miss
2. Check and call the nearly certain C-Bet
Option 1 does show some merit, but what if I get raised? He is very aggressive and certainly has premiums in his range. Since he is so aggressive, option 2 seems the better to me in order to let him bet for me; I check and he bets 700; I call.
Turn is the 10d. I bet 1500, he immediately calls. The river is a total brick, 3s, and I value bet for 2500 and he immediately calls – I show the winner and he mucks and I pull in a nice pot.
What I am attempting to learn from this hand, is what my opponent could be playing and why it played out like this. The thing that I find odd is that I do not believe it matters how I play this hand after I call pre-flop. Either option I choose after the flop results in what appears to be exactly the same pot as I three barrel and apparently get called – the only variance is the possible raise after I bet the flop.
The interesting thing is that this hand pretty much played itself – but how can that be? Two over cards, a flush and backdoor straight draw is not a hand that I would normally consider a hand that plays itself. Was he just calling to narrow my range, or did he have something, possibly 88, that he decided to pay the flush with; I wonder if the river pairs the board, let’s say the 4s, do I lose? Obviously I won the hand but am having some trouble even assigning this player a range.
Ok, Buadib1, your turn to tell me what an idiot I am and how much better you would have played this hand.
I am in the BB and he raises from MP to a standard raise of 600. Everyone folds including the SB and it is just him and I heads up. I think about folding before I even look at my cards since I will be out of position the entire hand against a very aggressive player. However, I also don’t want him to get the idea that he can steal my blind whenever he wants and I am deep stacked enough to make this call with some hands that I would not normally play. I looked down and find AdJd and naturally like this hand better than what I was expecting to find. I could raise here, but again what does he have in his range? He is capable of playing ATC but I don’t think that’s the case here and even if AJ is ahead it is not by much. I hate this position and am feeling very awkward! Most of the problem has to do with what I believe to be his perception of my hand and my lack of position. If I call and like the flop, he is likely to fold since my hand will be so transparent, on the other hand I’m likely to lose a bet if I miss and have to fold. Anyway, I reluctantly make the call.
The flop, 9d 8s 4d. Against his MP range, I like this flop and am not willing to give up just yet. But how do I proceed?
1. Bet into him, betting about 50% of the pot, hoping for a free river if I miss
2. Check and call the nearly certain C-Bet
Option 1 does show some merit, but what if I get raised? He is very aggressive and certainly has premiums in his range. Since he is so aggressive, option 2 seems the better to me in order to let him bet for me; I check and he bets 700; I call.
Turn is the 10d. I bet 1500, he immediately calls. The river is a total brick, 3s, and I value bet for 2500 and he immediately calls – I show the winner and he mucks and I pull in a nice pot.
What I am attempting to learn from this hand, is what my opponent could be playing and why it played out like this. The thing that I find odd is that I do not believe it matters how I play this hand after I call pre-flop. Either option I choose after the flop results in what appears to be exactly the same pot as I three barrel and apparently get called – the only variance is the possible raise after I bet the flop.
The interesting thing is that this hand pretty much played itself – but how can that be? Two over cards, a flush and backdoor straight draw is not a hand that I would normally consider a hand that plays itself. Was he just calling to narrow my range, or did he have something, possibly 88, that he decided to pay the flush with; I wonder if the river pairs the board, let’s say the 4s, do I lose? Obviously I won the hand but am having some trouble even assigning this player a range.
Ok, Buadib1, your turn to tell me what an idiot I am and how much better you would have played this hand.