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PokerStars - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 100.4 BB (VPIP: 60.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
Hero (SB): 99 BB
BB: 107.6 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
UTG: 107.4 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: 33.33, Hands: 5)
MP: 98.6 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
CO: 98 BB (VPIP: 60.00, PFR: 40.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 5)
Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 8<font color='black'>♣</font> 8<font color='red'>♦</font>
UTG raises to 2 BB, MP calls 2 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.6 BB, BB calls 1 BB
Flop: (8 BB, 4 players) 8<font color='black'>♠</font> 5<font color='black'>♠</font> T<font color='black'>♠</font>
Hero bets 6.4 BB, BB calls 6.4 BB, fold, fold
Turn: (20.8 BB, 2 players) 2<font color='black'>♣</font>
Hero bets 14.4 BB, BB calls 14.4 BB
River: (49.6 BB, 2 players) T<font color='red'>♥</font>
Hero ???
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Use to play mid-stakes on BV in my prime. I think most of your hands look solid imo. For JJ, you can pretty safely b/f river imo.
I think readless and at the micros, folding QQ to a 4-bet, especially a cold 4-bet, is fine. A 4-bet range is almost always KK or AA. With QQ or AK, most people at the micros want to see a flop when facing a 3-bet. Unless you have some history that villain is a maniac, a 3-bet fold QQ is perfectly fine at the micros. If anything, you're saving yourself a lot of money. Also here SB's PFR less than 9% and has a very high VPIP, which means he's very passive. He's never getting out of line here, and his 4-bet range crushes QQ.
CRAI on the river. His range consists of TP, draws, and very occasionally sets. This is actually a good spot to be donking out sets, as check-raising chases out a lot of other 2nd best hands and isolates ourselves against sets or overpairs with a big spade. Also, you don't really want the pot to check around if one or more people are on a draw, and don't want to bet in fear of getting check-raised.
You're showing a lot of strength by CRAI OTR, but I doubt many villains at the micros are capable of folding trips. And he'll be getting such a good price to call, and it'll be hard for him to fold.
Also, if he has a draw, he's not paying off another bet, whatever the size is. But when the ten comes and you check, it will be very tempting for him to bluff at. I think checking is the much better play in this spot. He's always betting a 10 or full house for value, and we can get his whole stack. He's never raising the river with a lone 10, but will probably stack off if we CR. And if he was on a draw, it's going to be pretty tempting for him to bluff at the 10.
PokerStars - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 100 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 2)
SB: 132.2 BB (VPIP: 10.91, PFR: 7.27, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 55)
Hero (BB): 103.2 BB
UTG: 109.8 BB (VPIP: 23.33, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 11.76, Hands: 30)
CO: 113.1 BB (VPIP: 31.37, PFR: 21.57, 3Bet Preflop: 19.05, Hands: 51)
SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 8<font color='black'>♣</font> T<font color='red'>♥</font>
fold, fold, BTN raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 2 BB
Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) J<font color='red'>♥</font> T<font color='red'>♦</font> 7<font color='red'>♥</font>
Hero checks, BTN bets 5 BB, Hero calls 5 BB
Turn: (16.5 BB, 2 players) 8<font color='red'>♥</font>
Hero checks, BTN checks
River: (16.5 BB, 2 players) 9<font color='red'>♥</font>
Hero checks, BTN bets 10 BB, Hero raises to 36.5 BB, BTN calls 26.5 BB
[spoil]Hero shows 8<font color='black'>♣</font> T<font color='red'>♥</font> (Straight Flush, Jack High)
Hero wins 85.1 BB
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Question is, when I spike king on river am I value betting it?
PokerStars - $0.05 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
SB: 125.2 BB (VPIP: 67.74, PFR: 25.81, 3Bet Preflop: 15.38, Hands: 31)
Hero (BB): 163.6 BB
UTG: 1.8 BB (VPIP: 75.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
CO: 30 BB
BTN: 98.6 BB (VPIP: 26.00, PFR: 8.00, 3Bet Preflop: 5.00, Hands: 50)
SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB, CO posts penalty blind 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.4 BB) Hero has K<font color='black'>♠</font> J<font color='red'>♥</font>
fold, CO raises to 2 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1 BB
Flop: (4.4 BB, 2 players) 5<font color='black'>♣</font> 3<font color='black'>♠</font> T<font color='black'>♠</font>
Hero checks, CO bets 1 BB, Hero raises to 4 BB, CO calls 3 BB
Turn: (12.4 BB, 2 players) 7<font color='black'>♠</font>
Hero bets 7.4 BB, CO calls 7.4 BB
River: (27.2 BB, 2 players) K<font color='red'>♥</font>
Hero ??? (About 17BB effective)
Had a great little 600 hand session, about 5 buy ins. Bank roll $179.56
Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) K<font color='red'>♦</font> T<font color='black'>♠</font> 6<font color='red'>♥</font>
Hero checks, BTN bets 3.5 BB, Hero calls 3.5 BB
Turn: (13.5 BB, 2 players) 9<font color='black'>♠</font>
Hero checks, BTN bets 7.5 BB, Hero raises to 26.5 BB, BTN raises to 50 BB, Hero raises to 163.5 BB, BTN calls 37.5 BB and is all-in
River: (188.5 BB, 2 players) 2<font color='black'>♣</font>
Where do you play at? The 10NL players you're playing seem to be really really soft. I busted at 10NL twice, but that was when I had tilt issues and was not that great of a player. Skipped 10NL entirely my 4th time around and now playing solidly at 25NL. Good job though!