palmerd2
Rock Star
Silver Level
$4 NLHE Full Ring: Two pair on the turn against an unknown Villian. Get it in, trap, or use caution?
I have just sat down at the table and was dealt in for seven or eight hands. I have been practicing playing LAG at micro limits a lot lately, and an ace on the button is like heaven for me. I apologize for the hand format; I do not understand how to save hand histories as text files on Merge. My question is whether it is correct to raise the turn or float to the river. I would also love feedback on how I played the hand up to the turn.
9-handed .02/.04 NL Holdem, Hero is on the Button with Ac 5d. Preflop, it is folded around to me with $3.51 behind. I raise ~2.5 BB to 0.11. SB ($2.93 behind) 3-bets to 0.26, BB folds. Most people would insta-muck here, but not me because 1) folding to such a tiny 3bet is weak and 2) I already have invested the .11 and am paying 0.16 more to win 0.39, 2.43:1 on my money. Finally, I have position, which every LAG loves and adores.
I feel most micro players are going to 3bet lightly as they overvalue suited aces and pocket pairs. So I am putting him on 77+ and AT suited +, AQo+, maybe KQ suited. Pokerstove shows we are a 7:3 dog against that range, which is 2.39 to 1 so it was the correct call, extremely marginally. So we have Ac 5d against 77+,ATs+,KQs,AQo+ in a lightly 3bet pot preflop, total pot is 0.58. Flop comes Jd 9s 5c. Villian checks.
I considered a cbet here but I was having a hard time trying to figure out what I would be trying to represent. Ace Jack? Tens? I opted to check since the pot was already bloated. Also, I feel like he would call with anything in that range I put him on since all of those hands are drawing to overcards or have already made hands. Finally, I didn’t want to get check-raised if he was slow-playing a set of Jacks or Nines as I only had bottom pair (gulp!)
Turn: Ad
This completely changes the dynamic of the hand, as the pocket pairs should now be scared money and the Aces just made it, most of which I am ahead of. There are also two diamonds, but still no made straights possible. I have two pair against a Villian who checked a dry flop. Villian bets 0.28 into 0.58. Hero?
Thanks in advance,
David
I have just sat down at the table and was dealt in for seven or eight hands. I have been practicing playing LAG at micro limits a lot lately, and an ace on the button is like heaven for me. I apologize for the hand format; I do not understand how to save hand histories as text files on Merge. My question is whether it is correct to raise the turn or float to the river. I would also love feedback on how I played the hand up to the turn.
9-handed .02/.04 NL Holdem, Hero is on the Button with Ac 5d. Preflop, it is folded around to me with $3.51 behind. I raise ~2.5 BB to 0.11. SB ($2.93 behind) 3-bets to 0.26, BB folds. Most people would insta-muck here, but not me because 1) folding to such a tiny 3bet is weak and 2) I already have invested the .11 and am paying 0.16 more to win 0.39, 2.43:1 on my money. Finally, I have position, which every LAG loves and adores.
I feel most micro players are going to 3bet lightly as they overvalue suited aces and pocket pairs. So I am putting him on 77+ and AT suited +, AQo+, maybe KQ suited. Pokerstove shows we are a 7:3 dog against that range, which is 2.39 to 1 so it was the correct call, extremely marginally. So we have Ac 5d against 77+,ATs+,KQs,AQo+ in a lightly 3bet pot preflop, total pot is 0.58. Flop comes Jd 9s 5c. Villian checks.
I considered a cbet here but I was having a hard time trying to figure out what I would be trying to represent. Ace Jack? Tens? I opted to check since the pot was already bloated. Also, I feel like he would call with anything in that range I put him on since all of those hands are drawing to overcards or have already made hands. Finally, I didn’t want to get check-raised if he was slow-playing a set of Jacks or Nines as I only had bottom pair (gulp!)
Turn: Ad
This completely changes the dynamic of the hand, as the pocket pairs should now be scared money and the Aces just made it, most of which I am ahead of. There are also two diamonds, but still no made straights possible. I have two pair against a Villian who checked a dry flop. Villian bets 0.28 into 0.58. Hero?
Thanks in advance,
David