$5 NL HE MTT: Donking out with two pair on connected board

[fundiver199]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Table Format

MTT

Buy-in

5

Game Options

1. Turbo

Currency

$

I have shared a number of hands, where I faced donk bets, but in this one I was the one donking, after I turned two pair on a very connected board. Game is a 5$ turbo 18-man SnG on Stars, the opponent was playing VPIP 40 / PFR 0 over 10 hands. Do you like this line?

pokerstars, $4.52 + $0.48 - Hold'em No Limit - 25/50 (6 ante) - 8 players
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UTG: 565 (11 bb)
UTG+1: 3,237 (65 bb)
MP: 1,408 (28 bb)
MP+1: 1,524 (30 bb)
CO: 2,457 (49 bb)
BU: 1,589 (32 bb)
SB: 961 (19 bb)
BB (Hero): 1,759 (35 bb)

Pre-Flop: (123) Hero is BB with J♦ T♠
UTG calls 50, 6 players fold, Hero checks

Flop: (173) T♥ Q♣ 7♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets 50, Hero calls 50

Turn: (273) J♠ (2 players)
Hero bets 164, UTG calls 164

River: (601) 3♣ (2 players)
Hero bets 361, UTG calls 295 (all-in)

 

[licardchatfy]

In this hand, you have turned two pairs on a connected board. The opponent has a VPIP of 40% and a PFR of 0% over 10 hands, which suggests they are loose and passive.
Your line of play, donking after turning two pairs, can be seen as aggressive and may force your opponent to fold weaker hands.

But overall, GG budy👌

 

[fundiver199]

Thanks for the comment. Looking at this hand after the game, I think, my hand might be a bit to in between to go for this line, since there are a lot of better two pair and straights, he can have. Probably not AK though given his limp. But it ended up working like a sharm, because he had one of the few hands, that was to strong for him to fold, but might have checked back turn or river, had I allowed him to do so.

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[300HPGOD]

Overall I think the line is good but there would be one tweak I would make to it. Pre and flop are where they should be imo so I am skipping over those. Turn I differ a little as I do like leading here since the flop bet was so small (would not think villain would do this with Qx but shows what I know) so I dont think they have much and I think they would generally check behind turn a lot especially with this board where they could now have picked up a draw and get to see a free river. That leads us to leading here, I just go smaller but not much (prob splitting hairs). With this hand being 11 BBs effective and us now having 2 pair I am not folding or at least not planning to fold. So I would bet an amount on turn that we can shove river (which wont be hard here given how small a stack we are facing) and make it as enticing as we can on both streets to call so maybe more around half pot on turn. I do, however, see the merit of going bigger on turn like you did if we do think they are draw heavy and then call turn but fold river if they miss. So, actually (mid post, lol) I like your line better than the one I originally thought. Well played

 

[eetenor]

I have shared a number of hands, where I faced donk bets, but in this one I was the one donking, after I turned two pair on a very connected board. Game is a 5$ turbo 18-man SnG on Stars, the opponent was playing VPIP 40 / PFR 0 over 10 hands. Do you like this line?

PokerStars, $4.52 + $0.48 - Hold'em No Limit - 25/50 (6 ante) - 8 players
Hand delivered by CardsChat - https://www.cardschat.com/hand-converter.php

UTG: 565 (11 bb)
UTG+1: 3,237 (65 bb)
MP: 1,408 (28 bb)
MP+1: 1,524 (30 bb)
CO: 2,457 (49 bb)
BU: 1,589 (32 bb)
SB: 961 (19 bb)
BB (Hero): 1,759 (35 bb)

Pre-Flop: (123) Hero is BB with J♦ T♠
UTG calls 50, 6 players fold, Hero checks

Flop: (173) T♥ Q♣ 7♥ (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets 50, Hero calls 50

Turn: (273) J♠ (2 players)
Hero bets 164, UTG calls 164

River: (601) 3♣ (2 players)
Hero bets 361, UTG calls 295 (all-in)

The lead is fine the sizing maybe too low based on the board and what we are targeting for value- V still has flush draws may have improved to open ended and can get away from some hands on river when they have 295 left -so 75% pot may be the better choice-this type of V is most often inelastic in their calling range so 75% and 60% are equal to them most often- and we want to get more value on the turn if they do find river folds with all the draws and under pairs they might chase on turn