$2.20 NL HE MTT: AK in UTG

[mariussica88]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Table Format

MTT

Buy-in

2.20

Currency

$

Do you guys think that against a player with no info on him should I checked the turn? Even bet smaller on the flop, like 1/3 pot?



pokerstars, $1.96 + $0.24 - Hold'em No Limit - 300/600 (60 ante) - 8 players
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UTG: 14,975 (25 bb)
UTG+1 (Hero): 17,010 (28 bb)
MP: 32,507 (54 bb)
MP+1: 10,000 (17 bb)
CO: 16,880 (28 bb)
BU: 35,430 (59 bb)
SB: 8,900 (15 bb)
BB: 18,740 (31 bb)

Pre-Flop: (1,380) Hero is UTG+1 with K♥ A♠
1 fold, Hero raises to 1,260, 4 players fold, SB calls 960, BB calls 660

Flop: (4,260) J♦ A♦ 7♦ (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets 2,087, SB calls 2,087, BB folds

Turn: (8,434) K♣ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets 5,651, SB calls 5,493 (all-in)

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
Standard open like the small sizing.

Flop
Personally I often check top pair on a monotone board and then put the hammer down, when the turn is an offsuit card, like it was here. But there are certainly advantages of betting as well. You can get value from hands with a single diamond, or you can deny their equity, if they fold. Maybe someone has a hand like 4c4d, and then its pretty difficult for them to continue on this board, because they dont know, if a diamond will make them the second best hand.

Turn
As played totally standard and fine to put him in for the rest of his chips. The SPR against SB was only a little over 2 on the flop, and if he flopped a flush or a set, then congrats to him.

 

[Station_Master]

Hand looks played fine to me. In theory flop sizing should be smaller but in this case it works well as we have a nice stack behind to shove turn. The reason flop would often be smaller is on monotone boards the nuts dont tend to change, also you have almost no flushes in your range, this would be a problem with 100b but with 28bb it's fine and TPTK is happy to stack off

 

[fundiver199]

this would be a problem with 100b but with 28bb it's fine and TPTK is happy to stack off

And against SB we are even shorter with just 15BB effective. The fact, he cold called out of SB with such a short stack, is in itself a pretty strong sign, he is a fish. The only situation, where a good player would do this, would be to trap with aces or kings, especially if BB is an aggressive squeezer. So SB is most likely a bad player, and then TPTK is miles ahead of his 15BB stack-off range even on a monotone board. And even if he was trapping with AA or KK, its not like, it even matters. If he had jammed preflop, we would of course have called, and the result would have been just the same. So if he had the one remaining combo of AA or KK, the hand is just a trivial cooler. And if he had anything else, that beat us, or drew out on us on the river, then he played poorly and sucked out on us. Which obviously sucks, but its part of the game and nothing to worry about

 

[Tigroslav]

I think you played it well, wouldn't change anything.

 

[eetenor]

And against SB we are even shorter with just 15BB effective. The fact, he cold called out of SB with such a short stack, is in itself a pretty strong sign, he is a fish. The only situation, where a good player would do this, would be to trap with aces or kings, especially if BB is an aggressive squeezer. So SB is most likely a bad player, and then TPTK is miles ahead of his 15BB stack-off range even on a monotone board. And even if he was trapping with AA or KK, its not like, it even matters. If he had jammed preflop, we would of course have called, and the result would have been just the same. So if he had the one remaining combo of AA or KK, the hand is just a trivial cooler. And if he had anything else, that beat us, or drew out on us on the river, then he played poorly and sucked out on us. Which obviously sucks, but its part of the game and nothing to worry about

Some GTO charts have 100 combos of flush draws that just call SB vs UTG at this stack depth- so SB has way more combos of made flushes than sets or two pairs on this board- therefore the SB is not a fish for calling preflop nor just calling flop.
They may be a fish but this action does not make it certain.

 

[eetenor]

If we look at a GTO chart we would see that GTO wants us to shove KQdd KTdd from SB
however in game at this buy-in level we cannot say for sure that those hands were not just called-therefore the V could have the nuts here- they can also have Qxdd and play this way as well- they have far fewer single Diamond hands if they are playing close to GTO AxTd KQ KdJx only KToff is supposed to fold

Another poster mentioned betting smaller on flop- it is the better option here as improving to the nuts is impossible for us on one street-33% is standard- especially considering how many flushes the BB can have and how few flush draws the SB might have