GreenDaddy1
Rock Star
Silver Level
Just plucked a fun hand from tonight's session.
Called here in the SB with ATo. Definitely a hand I can fold in SB, but I don't mind taking a look at the flop on a table with some pretty wild stats... were 5 handed and as follows:
MP 37/29
CO 58/12
BTN 25/10 (with a high WTSD of 35 on a sample of a few hundred hands)
BB 49/15
I don't really like to 3 bet bluff it here as a squeeze, the table is too loose and passive and I think I'd just be giving up out of position most of the time if I got callers due to ATo being such a difficult hand to know where I am at. I much prefer to just call and cheaply play fit or fold here.
Cant ask for much more from the flop. All the aces but 1 are now blocked. I check first up multiway, hoping someone else will build the pot so I can disguise my hand. I choose not to reraise, I guess if I get aggressive here only 99 and the remaining A are going to stay, along with some bad flush draws. Maybe some other pair from TT up might call.
The turn is rather kind, to say the least. I check with the nuts out of position as I don't have the betting lead, expecting one of them to bet. After BTN bets I deliberately make a weak reraise. I expect some will disagree with me here, but I'm trying to get both villains to the river with me to then extract maximum value with a river lead out putting them both all in. Even if just the BTN calls it, it leaves behind a pretty natural sized bet to put him all in on the river.
Anyway MP doesn't come along. BTN has clearly got something though, even if he was being optimistic with a flush draw he just got there. I prefer the lead out here as too often at 2NL people check rivers in position failing to go for value, but they are pretty likely to call down if they have something.
Very lucky hand for me, against villains who were a good shot to pay off.. Just wondering though how some of you might have played it.
Pacific Poker - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
UTG: 105 BB
CO: 84.5 BB
BTN: 100 BB
Hero (SB): 154 BB
BB: 40 BB
Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A:spade: T:diamond:
UTG raises to 2.5 BB, CO calls 2.5 BB, BTN calls 2.5 BB, Hero calls 2 BB, fold
Flop: (11 BB, 4 players) 9:heart: A:diamond: A:heart:
Hero checks, UTG bets 5.5 BB, fold, BTN calls 5.5 BB, Hero calls 5.5 BB
Turn: (27.5 BB, 3 players) T:club:
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN bets 18 BB, Hero raises to 36 BB, fold, BTN calls 18 BB
River: (99.5 BB, 2 players) 7:heart:
Hero bets 66.5 BB, BTN calls 56 BB and is all-in
Called here in the SB with ATo. Definitely a hand I can fold in SB, but I don't mind taking a look at the flop on a table with some pretty wild stats... were 5 handed and as follows:
MP 37/29
CO 58/12
BTN 25/10 (with a high WTSD of 35 on a sample of a few hundred hands)
BB 49/15
I don't really like to 3 bet bluff it here as a squeeze, the table is too loose and passive and I think I'd just be giving up out of position most of the time if I got callers due to ATo being such a difficult hand to know where I am at. I much prefer to just call and cheaply play fit or fold here.
Cant ask for much more from the flop. All the aces but 1 are now blocked. I check first up multiway, hoping someone else will build the pot so I can disguise my hand. I choose not to reraise, I guess if I get aggressive here only 99 and the remaining A are going to stay, along with some bad flush draws. Maybe some other pair from TT up might call.
The turn is rather kind, to say the least. I check with the nuts out of position as I don't have the betting lead, expecting one of them to bet. After BTN bets I deliberately make a weak reraise. I expect some will disagree with me here, but I'm trying to get both villains to the river with me to then extract maximum value with a river lead out putting them both all in. Even if just the BTN calls it, it leaves behind a pretty natural sized bet to put him all in on the river.
Anyway MP doesn't come along. BTN has clearly got something though, even if he was being optimistic with a flush draw he just got there. I prefer the lead out here as too often at 2NL people check rivers in position failing to go for value, but they are pretty likely to call down if they have something.
Very lucky hand for me, against villains who were a good shot to pay off.. Just wondering though how some of you might have played it.
Pacific Poker - $0.02 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
UTG: 105 BB
CO: 84.5 BB
BTN: 100 BB
Hero (SB): 154 BB
BB: 40 BB
Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A:spade: T:diamond:
UTG raises to 2.5 BB, CO calls 2.5 BB, BTN calls 2.5 BB, Hero calls 2 BB, fold
Flop: (11 BB, 4 players) 9:heart: A:diamond: A:heart:
Hero checks, UTG bets 5.5 BB, fold, BTN calls 5.5 BB, Hero calls 5.5 BB
Turn: (27.5 BB, 3 players) T:club:
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN bets 18 BB, Hero raises to 36 BB, fold, BTN calls 18 BB
River: (99.5 BB, 2 players) 7:heart:
Hero bets 66.5 BB, BTN calls 56 BB and is all-in
BTN shows A:club: J:club: (Three of a Kind, Aces)
(Pre 74%, Flop 79%, Turn 9%)
Hero shows A:spade: T:diamond: (Full House, Aces full of Tens)
(Pre 26%, Flop 21%, Turn 91%)
Hero wins 198.5 BB
(Pre 74%, Flop 79%, Turn 9%)
Hero shows A:spade: T:diamond: (Full House, Aces full of Tens)
(Pre 26%, Flop 21%, Turn 91%)
Hero wins 198.5 BB