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Master Cash 2nd January - Make Your Play ONE.
Tikay10
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Hi, & a Happy New Year to the growing band of Master Cash-ites.
Here's the first of this week's two MYP's. The responses to these have got better & better, & from all of us at Master Cash, thank you for entering into it in exactly the right spirit.
Remember, we need your Votes, but what we need more is your explanations as to "why". The right or wrong answer is less important in many ways than the "what & why".
Please Post replies & comments either on thread, or via e-Mail, & Rich & I will try & read as many out as possible on tonight's Live Show, which airs at 8pm on Channel 865. The e-Addy is skyopen@bskyb.com
You might also wish to omment how well or not well Hero played this, too.
Righty-ho, here we go.
Blinds £1 £2, 6 handed.
Hero (SB) £350
Villain (Cut-off) £217.
Hero has the pretty-ish Ad-Qh
Folded to Villain who makes it £5.
Hero, in SB, pops it up to £19.
Villain calls.
Flop = Ah-Jh-6d
Hero in SB bets £26.
Villain re-raises to £59, ooh-er!
Hero..........CALLS.
Turn 4h
So it's now Ah-Jh-6d-4h
Now it goes check-check. (Comment?)
River Qc
Our Board now reads.....
Ah-Jh-6d-4h-Qc
Hero now.....
Check Calls?
Check Folds?
Bets £85?
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Comments
Have we any information on the villain please?
I take control, and bet out, having put him on AK! - This is why....
By raising pre, and just flatting my re raise, and after evaluating the flop action...I think I can pretty confidently put him on ace king. I always try to put my opponent on a specific 2 card hand, the action just screams AK! AA wud raise again pre.
He checks the turn, I dnt think hes disguising a flush, think hes as worried about the flush as I am. Hard to put him on a hand with 2 hearts, as the ace of hearts has flopped, so whats he playing that cud have made a flush, with the action being played out as it has? QK hearts? - wud he raise the flop? maybe, but unlikely.
Back to the question....
Having put my opponent on AK, I have to bet here because I believe he will call!(cnt rule out AJ) If I check, he may well be thinking along the same lines, and may bet out as well, as ive checked the turn and river - I look so weak. Im not gonna check raise the river, so betting out is the option I'd take, it takes the bluff away from my oppo, if he shoves, I fold.
DOHH
By the bye, Dohhhhhhh's reply, though perhaps a little too long to read on the Show, is a perfect demonstration of thought process throughout the play of the hand. The explanation of what & why - & whether he is right or wrong is irrelevant - is how we are all learning on Master Cash & the MYP threads.
The end board is great, remember the villain raise called from position preflop. Pocket pairs you will significantly be up against in this spot is 10s to 7s. I'd have a slight worry about pocket sixes but at this level the majority of the time the villain would foldpreflop. Aces to Jacks would of normally have reraised. So I'm saying no sets.
The fact we have the Queen of hearts in our hand is great as KQ hearts would have been centre of villain's range. I don't have the villain on a flush, I think they are as scared of the three hearts as we are by the way we called the small raise.
I have villain on AJ (he made the wimpy call preflop because of position and flopped top two) and he will call the bet on the end, so I bet out on the river.
I hate our play flop and turn though, we have lost control of the hand after taking it preflop and we haven't used the betting to really define down the villain's hand as much as we should of.
Just a note diggerman - If he does have a set of jacks, if you bet into him, hes not gonna raise here. - He MIGHT, altho its unlikely, he MIGHT lay the jacks down if we bet. So the bet rather than the check call definately has many advantages.
Whereas if you check to him (thats twice) hes definately gonna V bet it.
If we check to him and he bets, whats goin thru our head? Loadsssss of negative, paranoid thoughts, we're looking for things that might not even be there! and its such a headache!
Give him the headache, I hate check call.
Theres so many hands hes gonna call with that we can beat here.
DOHH
i personally check - call. well id call a pot size bet of £85..
what if he pushes what do we do then tikay in your opinion??
think i may fold a push!!
I suspect I'm good here but why take the risk of having your opp re-raise you (with or without the flush) and then putting you on a big decision to either throw away the chips you've invested or make a crying call?
If he's got it, he's calling/raising your river bet. If he hasn't got it, then a check-call means you've won anyway.
I don't see the point of betting further. What sort of a hand is he going to call you with that you're beating?
If he has got AK he may use the advantage of position and check behind so you are missing out on potential value if you dont bet out.
The main problem with this hand is that we are out of position... ugh...
It is very unlikely that the villain has the flush or straight given the action to date and the cards that we can see. He will also know the same about our hand so he could well call with a hand that we are beating. If we don't bet we are losing value here.
The only hand that we are concerned about should be a set. He is unlikely to re-raise us with the set and would bet it anyway if we checked to him so we need to bet out for a decent amount.
You asked specifically for a comment on the turn play. I like our check. The check by the villain is weak. He shouldn't be putting us on a made flush so if he has a big hand he should be betting for value here and not allowing us to draw to a big flush for free.
P.S. I love suited kings so if I'm the villain here I'm making hay!