How do we play our entire range from the Big Blind?
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Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 5 players
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kitty3913 (UTG): $2.23 (112 bb)
marou00 (CO): $2.10 (105 bb)
jetson00000 (BU): $1.89 (95 bb)
Pokerstars19 (SB): $1.48 (74 bb)
yael141201 (BB): $2.89 (145 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero (yael141201) is BB with 7
♠ K
♥
1 fold, marou00 (CO) calls $0.02, jetson00000 (BU) calls $0.02, Pokerstars19 (SB) calls $0.01,
yael141201 (BB) checks
Flop: ($0.08) 6
♦ K
♣ 5
♦ (4 players)
Pokerstars19 (SB) checks,
yael141201 (BB) checks, marou00 (CO) checks, jetson00000 (BU) checks
Turn: ($0.08) 7
♥ (4 players)
Pokerstars19 (SB) checks,
yael141201 (BB) bets $0.04,
marou00 (CO) folds, jetson00000 (BU) calls $0.04, Pokerstars19 (SB) calls $0.04
River: ($0.20) 8
♣ (3 players)
Pokerstars19 (SB) bets $1.42 (all-in),
yael141201 (BB) raises to $2.83 (all-in), jetson00000 (BU) calls $1.83 (all-in)
Total pot: $5.28 (Rake: $0.33)
Showdown:
yael141201 (BB) shows 7
♠ K
♥ (two pair, Kings and Sevens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 44%, Flop: 63%, Turn: 79%, River: 0%)
Pokerstars19 (SB) shows 9
♦ Q
♦ (a straight, Five to Nine)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 34%, Flop: 35%, Turn: 14%, River: 0%)
jetson00000 (BU) shows T
♦ 9
♠ (a straight, Six to Ten)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 22%, Flop: 3%, Turn: 7%, River: 100%)
jetson00000 (BU) wins $4.95
Welcome to the CardsChat Community yael1412! Thank you very much for sharing your hand.
Now, this is a very advanced and complicated topic. This is big blind defense, but there are some aspects we must observe before taking decisions from the blinds:
A) Did we check preflop, when came a limp/limpers behind? How do we play when we check preflop?
B) Did we call preflop, when came a raise or multiple raises behind? How do we play when call from the blinds preflop?
C) Did we 3-bet preflop, whem came a raise or multiple raises (Squeeze) behind? How do we play out of position in a 3-bet pot, sometimes 3-handed?
D) Did we raise limp/limper behind? How do we play out of position limped-raised pots, heads-up and 3-handed?
We see that our hand fits in the topic
A. We did check preflop with 80% range or more.
Your check flop is good, because that's what we do most of times when we check from the Big Blind. Hands that you could bet here are K5, K6, 65 and 66 and 55 that you decided to check for some reason.
Your flush draws and straight draws are no good for raising here. Also your Kx, alone with no kicker, so, overall your check flop was good.
Now in the turn it comes a 7h and we now have top two pair, so I like your decision of making a bet here. However, given that the board is heavy connected for flushes and straights, our Two Pair hands and Sets will lost a lot of value in many rivers.
So, I don't see why give excellent
odds for weak players to continue paying with their draws in the turn. When you bet here, goes for 100% pot or more. Why?
Everyone checked flop, so the pot is still very small. Players that limped preflop and got draws in the board, will pay large sizings trying to hit their equities in the non-sense rivers.
Because the pot is small, the players are weak, we have a very strong value hand that could be ahead a galaxy from the limper's range, a 200% bet here would very EV, for the case players decide to pay with draws.
We believe nobody had two pair or sets in the flop, because everyone checked flop. In the turn there are more two pair hands that we beat than two pair hands that beat us. Our only concern is to protect our value hand and put pressure upon Villain's ranges, so we can take a heads-up in the River. When they call this turn they also show that they are seeking draws, either flushes or straights and many rivers are going to end our action.
However, it was not your choice, you made a 1/2 pot bet which is not the end of the world and both players pay, and we go to the river:
The river completes some Straights with the 8c and now the SB donks JAM. Very hard decision here, but it is a fold 100% of times:
A) Some K8 might got there in the river and is destroying us.
B) Some Set that it decided to limp/complete preflop such as 55, 66.
C) We are out of position to give this call.
D) What is gonna happen when we call and BTN calls? We are doomed.
E) The Straights with 9x and T9.
F) This is a guessing call in the River, because we didn't raise the pot preflop, so we are starting to guess ranges here, and this is a bad ideia.
We don't have the proper odds from the Big Blind in a pot that we checked preflop.
Hands that we could be paying here are the 9x, and if we had T9. We don't have any set when we check preflop and check flop, we have no 77 or 88 because those hands could be 3-betting/raising limpers preflop, and even if we had sets they are no good here, the same goes for TP hands and Two Pair hands.
You didn't raise the pot preflop. And even if you did, in a river like this you must fold almost 100% of your range, unfortunately. If we had position we could wonder a couple of seconds before folding.
Thank you very much and please, keep posting your hands! Have a nice day.
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
