$.50 NLHE MTT Turbo: What do you do here?

[Jon Poker]

Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - 4500/9000 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 11.87 BB (VPIP: 10.42, PFR: 10.42, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, hands: 49)
CO: 13.49 BB (VPIP: 22.58, PFR: 13.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 31)
BTN: 6.24 BB (VPIP: 15.00, PFR: 5.38, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 102)
SB: 9.69 BB (VPIP: 20.51, PFR: 5.13, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 39)
Hero (BB): 23.48 BB
UTG: 12.59 BB (VPIP: 23.40, PFR: 4.35, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 47)

6 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.1 BB) Hero has 8♥ 9♥

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero checks

Flop: (3.6 BB, 3 players) 2♥ Q♣ Q♦
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks

Turn: (3.6 BB, 3 players) T♥
SB bets 1 BB, Hero calls 1 BB, fold

River: (5.6 BB, 2 players) A♦
SB checks, Hero checks

SB shows T♣ K♠ (Two Pair, Queens and Tens)
(Pre 60%, Flop 73%, Turn 75%)
Hero mucks 8♥ 9♥ (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 40%, Flop 27%, Turn 25%)
SB wins 5.6 BB


I think after looking back on this hand I maybe should have raised and semi bluffed the turn? Possibly setting myself up for a bluff shove on the river? Maybe I played this fine and all but I feel like maybe I was a little too passive here...anyhow, what do you think?

 

[eetenor]

Aggression is winning poker.

Winning Poker Network (Yatahay) - 4500/9000 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 11.87 BB (VPIP: 10.42, PFR: 10.42, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 49)
CO: 13.49 BB (VPIP: 22.58, PFR: 13.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 31)
BTN: 6.24 BB (VPIP: 15.00, PFR: 5.38, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 102)
SB: 9.69 BB (VPIP: 20.51, PFR: 5.13, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 39)
Hero (BB): 23.48 BB
UTG: 12.59 BB (VPIP: 23.40, PFR: 4.35, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 47)

6 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.1 BB) Hero has 8♥ 9♥

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero checks

Flop: (3.6 BB, 3 players) 2♥ Q♣ Q♦
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks

Turn: (3.6 BB, 3 players) T♥
SB bets 1 BB, Hero calls 1 BB, fold

River: (5.6 BB, 2 players) A♦
SB checks, Hero checks

SB shows T♣ K♠ (Two Pair, Queens and Tens)
(Pre 60%, Flop 73%, Turn 75%)
Hero mucks 8♥ 9♥ (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 40%, Flop 27%, Turn 25%)
SB wins 5.6 BB


I think after looking back on this hand I maybe should have raised and semi bluffed the turn? Possibly setting myself up for a bluff shove on the river? Maybe I played this fine and all but I feel like maybe I was a little too passive here...anyhow, what do you think?

Thank U 4 Posting.

Aggression can win pots. This pot was winable if the villain was capable of making a fold. Low stakes players will call a turn or river bet here with K10 thinking you also have a ten. Especially when they have -10bb
If the villain's stack was larger villain would be more likely to fold

With that said the call 1 bb check behind play was probably the best play here.


Hope this helps

 

[Jon Poker]

I think so...with a stack of less than 10bb and the flop going check - check, I think they are looking to get it all in if need be. I think in certain games, player dependent situations this spot calls for a raise. The more I think on it I would have been fine with that - but I think more often than not this player calls me down and I end up doubling them up playing a little too aggressively

 

[Veritas]

I think after looking back on this hand I maybe should have raised and semi bluffed the turn? Possibly setting myself up for a bluff shove on the river? Maybe I played this fine and all but I feel like maybe I was a little too passive here...anyhow, what do you think?

I don't think you can bluff him off too many Hands when he has only a pot size bet left on the river.
I personally don't like board to semi bluff the turn, I would rather shove pre into his limping.

 

[Cash2019]

Hello! May be you can to pre-flop raise, but this is a short stack that can all-in. He play with reg stats, i think that he can have ten in the range, this is a good bank control. If you posted his post-flop aggression statistics, this may help to answer this question. Nevertheless, we have 3-bet statistics, yes it is only 39 hands, but I think it is enought; if you make a bluff raise, he simply make all-in with his short stac, because he have value. My decision on this hand, it is pot-control.

 

[Tmoney999]

I think that it really depends on how this certain player plays post flop. As well, how do you think he views you as a player. Are you capable of having a weak ace here or KJ? possibly, a queen? probably not, and a 10 here for his stack size is a very strong hand and if you do have the possible couple strong hands, then its really just unlucky for him. I think you played it fine, a semi bluff there would have just ended up doubling him up in my opinion and a bet on the river could only really be a few possible hands, and if you had them he just got unlucky and probably has to pay you off. K10 on that board in that spot with 10 bb K10 here is a huge hand, semi bluffing 9 high into a person that bets on Q Q 2 10 board with 9 high and a draw is basically just gamble that you don't need to do for the pot at this point, he probably tanks and calls it off. The river is the same does he really put you on a checked ace, possibly, but what other spots are you waiting for with basically no chips is what he would possibly feel like. I know that is how i would have felt. This is why i hate limped hands even if it is justified there is very little information to play off of, just a bunch of maybe this or maybe that's. Raise pre if your going to play a hand, the game changes drastically.​

 

[fundiver199]

With stacks this short I like the way, you played it. If you raise the turn, you kind of have to jam and put them all in, and I just dont feel, you have enough fold equity. Your hand would sort of look like, what it is, and especially at a limit like this I except to get called by any paired up hand or even sometimes A high.