Hero 10-9 (button) Villain AK (bb)
Was the villain right to call and was this double barrel on the turn and river ever going to work? The board finished with 4 spades and villain didn't have one.
and History #743243216 (22:49 09/02/2014)PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceleedsdan27Big blind £0.10£0.10£9.75 Your hole cards109 VINEY73Fold angermooseFold salazarRaise £0.30£0.40£11.35leedsdan27Raise £0.80£1.20£8.95salazarCall £0.60£1.80£10.75Flop K8J leedsdan27Bet £0.90£2.70£8.05salazarCall £0.90£3.60£9.85Turn 5 leedsdan27Check salazarBet £1.80£5.40£8.05leedsdan27Call £1.80£7.20£6.25River A leedsdan27Check salazarBet £3.00£10.20£5.05leedsdan27Call £3.00£13.20£3.25salazarShow109 leedsdan27ShowKA leedsdan27WinTwo Pairs, Aces and Kings£12.21 £15.46
Comments
It's not certain based on his turn call taht he calls river with another spade out, but think for that price he will. Great for you if you have the hand to beat him, but...
All things considered though, folding pre-flop to the 3bett is usually a better idea than a fairly dangerous hand like 910os So often you'll end up with the idiot end of a straight with this hand to someone with paint, and to a 3bet good chances one pair won't be enough, even though in this case it would have been and they missed.
As played check turn... Bet like 70% pot on river.
Jamming narrows your range to Qs or air. A more standard bet sizing allows you to keep Js/10s in your perceived range which will make it harder for the villain to call/will make you bluffs significantly cheaper over time.
Why check the turn, though? The turn has brought in a draw and the villain has checked it. We've surely got to take a stab at winning this pot now. Otherwise we really have made a big mistake peeling pre-flop and calling the flop. We need to be able to win the pot without hitting our hand. This is a great opportunity to semi-bluff on a texture altering turn.
As for pre-flop, it really depends on the dynamic between us and the villain. If the villain hasn't been 3-betting us light then we really should just fold. As said above, we want to exploit our position to be able to bluff or semi-bluff post-flop in order to make peeling this type of hand profitable. If villain has a nutted 3-bet range, it's going to be tough to make him fold.
although my 2 pair was nothing more than a bluff catcher, it was too small a bet not to look you up, although I was very, very close to a fold. I'd have folded to a bet of £5/6+, but may have "hero" called a shove (depending on how much I'd had to drink!!) feeling you were then polarised to Qs or nothing.
gl at the tables!!
Was a genuine question as oppossed to a sarcastic reply, I'm a long time lurker on this forum so thought I may as well make my 1st post on the 1st hand i'm mentioned in
We'd bet most of our strong hands when checked to on this turn. Are we checking back two-pair here? Probably not.
There are some hands that check-call the turn but not nearly as many can check-call turn and river. I'd also debate whether a semi-bluff or air hand is necessarily going to barrel this turn OOP after having their 3-bet called pre-flop and their c-bet called on KJ8, with the flush draw completing on the turn.
Not sure which 2 pair your referring to... as there is only really KJ (Would probably get this in on the flop.)
Imo villain's range is pretty face up on this turn. A large % of the time it's a hand with decent showdown value that can't bet. If we think there gonna c/c a large % of the time then betting with this little equity just seems a bit spewy.
Imo with our positional advantage we can win this pot on a lot of rivers. Sometimes we don't have to empty the clip to win the hand.