Aballinamion
Sleeping with the Dark Lady of the Sith
Loyaler
I raised from EP having 25 BB ES, with AJo and get called from a decent regular in the blinds, with more than 25 BB ES.
The flop comes 4A2 rainbown and the regular donks-shove and I call.
My ideia here is simple: I can be opening from UTG, having a tight range, 22, 44, AA, AK, AQ, AJ and AT. I can open these hands in the Level 8 of blinds for value.
When it comes a flop 4A2, I will have all the AA, AK, AQ in my range, I will have also half of the pocket pairs combos of 44 and 22.
The regular in the blinds could have A4, A2, but IMO it wasn't a spot for shoving:
The regular in the blinds shows AQo, and when AQ raises this flop it will get a lot of calls from AK, AA, 44 and 22.
So, if I call here with AK, AA, 44 and 22, I will also call with AQ, AJ, AT, and sometimes A2 and A4, when I open these suited combos from EP. This way I can balance my range and protect my rank versus the blinds because the blinds could still have AT, A9, A8, A7, etc and could be trying to kick me out of the pot because I am opening from EP I will have all the pocket pairs combos and KK would have a hard trouble calling here.
If I had JJ, QQ and KK from EP and villain donks shove the flop I would fold 70% of times and exploitatively call 30% of times. What do you think?
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa
The flop comes 4A2 rainbown and the regular donks-shove and I call.
My ideia here is simple: I can be opening from UTG, having a tight range, 22, 44, AA, AK, AQ, AJ and AT. I can open these hands in the Level 8 of blinds for value.
When it comes a flop 4A2, I will have all the AA, AK, AQ in my range, I will have also half of the pocket pairs combos of 44 and 22.
The regular in the blinds could have A4, A2, but IMO it wasn't a spot for shoving:
The regular in the blinds shows AQo, and when AQ raises this flop it will get a lot of calls from AK, AA, 44 and 22.
So, if I call here with AK, AA, 44 and 22, I will also call with AQ, AJ, AT, and sometimes A2 and A4, when I open these suited combos from EP. This way I can balance my range and protect my rank versus the blinds because the blinds could still have AT, A9, A8, A7, etc and could be trying to kick me out of the pot because I am opening from EP I will have all the pocket pairs combos and KK would have a hard trouble calling here.
If I had JJ, QQ and KK from EP and villain donks shove the flop I would fold 70% of times and exploitatively call 30% of times. What do you think?
Regards;
Carlos 'Aballinamion' Barbosa