Couple interesting hands from recent HU match

SkyWages

Hand History #754986194 (06:52 12/03/2014)
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceSkyWagesSmall blind £0.50£0.50£206.40Stevie_JBig blind £1.00£1.50£130.70 Your hole cards9J   SkyWagesRaise £1.50£3.00£204.90Stevie_JRaise £6.00£9.00£124.70SkyWagesCall £5.00£14.00£199.90Flop  9Q6   Stevie_JBet £9.00£23.00£115.70SkyWagesCall £9.00£32.00£190.90Turn  J   Stevie_JCheck    SkyWagesBet £16.00£48.00£174.90Stevie_JCall £16.00£64.00£99.70River  A   Stevie_JCheck    SkyWagesCheck    Stevie_JShowKA   SkyWagesShow9J 

Hand History #754987415 (07:36 12/03/2014)PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceStevie_JSmall blind £0.50£0.50£128.10SkyWagesBig blind £1.00£1.50£243.40 Your hole cardsQ2   Stevie_JRaise £1.50£3.00£126.60SkyWagesRaise £7.00£10.00£236.40Stevie_JCall £6.00£16.00£120.60Flop  8A10   SkyWagesBet £9.00£25.00£227.40Stevie_JCall £9.00£34.00£111.60Turn  6   SkyWagesBet £22.00£56.00£205.40Stevie_JCall £22.00£78.00£89.60River  8   SkyWagesAll-in £205.40£283.40£0.00Stevie_JFold    SkyWagesMuck    SkyWagesWin £77.00 £77.00SkyWagesReturn £205.40£1.00£282.40

77Chris91

Why check back hand 1?

SkyWages

Think he pretty much never cc's turn with AK/AJ type hands, so feel like 1 pair of aces is probably very unlikely. Alot of draws missed and the river is a good bluff card for me which means its a good river for him to sandbag.

So in short I feel I very rarely get called by a worse hand, fold out alot of hands i'm beating (1 pair of queens I guess), get check raised by better hands and dont make any better hands fold.

77Chris91

In Response to Re: Couple interesting hands from recent HU match:

Think he pretty much never cc's turn with AK/AJ type hands, so feel like 1 pair of aces is probably very unlikely. Alot of draws missed and the river is a good bluff card for me which means its a good river for him to sandbag. So in short I feel I very rarely get called by a worse hand, fold out alot of hands i'm beating (1 pair of queens I guess), get check raised by better hands and dont make any better hands fold.
Posted by SkyWages

Fair enough.

Don't play much heads-up so you may be right.

My thinking was that the A is a great barrel card for the villain if he has air. When he checks I think he has decent showdown value a large % of the time. You also have loads of busted draws in your range + 1pr hands you might turn into a bluff J10 etc. Imo you might get hero'd here by Ax here more often than you think.

watto84

Hand 2 - I cant see what you both have behind. But is an extremely risky move. Granted it paid off. But I would expect to getting called here by a weak ace now the 10 plays.

Granted it was the only way to win the pot. But stacking off is a huge play and not really sure what you get out of it long term and posting it here. Over betting the pot looks largely bluffy and would get snapped off by better players.