£2 BH Exit Hand (nearly)

Lambert180

This wasn't quite my exit hand, but it left me with about 0.1BB lol. I did actually manage to quadruple up the next hand, but then busted the next hand, but that's beside the point.

Think it was about 158 runners, by this point I was 2nd out of 15, obviously wasn't interested in just laddering for laddering's sake, just wanna check if you think I played this hand ok.

Not been on this table too long so not much in the way of reads apart from him limping was pretty standard.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
streamside	Small blind		500.00	500.00	17199.67
suesandy	Big blind		1000.00	1500.00	24430.00
	Your hole cards	J A
eon1961	Fold
hallegs	Call		1000.00	2500.00	26090.00
Lambert180	Raise		3000.00	5500.00	24233.48
streamside	Fold
suesandy	Call		2000.00	7500.00	22430.00
hallegs	Call		2000.00	9500.00	24090.00
Flop
		J 6 10
suesandy	Check
hallegs	Bet		2000.00	11500.00	22090.00
Lambert180	Raise		6500.00	18000.00	17733.48
suesandy	Fold
hallegs	Call		4500.00	22500.00	17590.00
Turn
		9
hallegs	Bet		5000.00	27500.00	12590.00
Lambert180	All-in		17733.48	45233.48	0.00
hallegs	All-in		12590.00	57823.48	0.00
Lambert180	Unmatched bet		143.48	57680.00	143.48
hallegs	Show	7 8
Lambert180	Show	J A
River
		Q
hallegs	Win	Straight to the Queen	57680.00		57680.00

Lambert180

I aint stoved it, but he has 4x9s and 8 diamonds (cos I have one), so I am a very marginal favourite, basically flipping (roughly).

JAM888

Cant see anything wrong here, well played, just ul

BorinLoner

IDONKCALLU has a point: If you're going to raise the flop, you really need to raise more.

By making it 6500 to go, he has exactly 4/1 on his money. So if he was holding only a flush draw he'd be getting the right pot odds on the call. If a reasonable raise into the 11.5k pot would be 9k or 10k, then we might as well shove our 24k stack in. It seems like alot to shove but there's nearly half our stack in the middle anyway.

There is an argument for only calling the flop bet, giving him another chance to fire on a dry turn card, then raising. There will be quite a few bad turn cards for us - Kings, Queens, 9's and diamonds - though, so I think I'd shove this flop.

Slykllist

With blinds at this size, i don't love the 3x raise preflop, min raise - 2.2x does exactly the same job and I'd be keen to excercise some pot control with AJ.

Agree with BorinLoner, the 6500 3bet on the flop is too small, with the flush draw out I'd be looking at a bet of 8,600 - 9000 into an 11,500 pot and that puts you in the realms of just shoving the flop.

Just for info - hand strengths on the flop are AJ - 56.7%, 78 - 43.3%

Batkin88

You cant minraise with the limper pre as blinds are getting priced in if he limp calls often, as played I call the flop donk and re evaluate or do exactly what you do and raise with intention of getting it in with a blank turn

rancid

happily shove flop or call

Lambert180

I only 3x'd because there was a limper. I would normally be between 2x and 2.5x but was trying to either get a fold or play a pot IP

AMYBR

Sigh...........UL

People that limp call in this way make me teeth hurt.  Its just burning their Tlife unless the deck smacks them...and oh how it does.

Turn is a bad card in lots of ways given limpers range and lead calling the flop, but pot is so bloated you pretty much just have to get it in.  His Turn lead is either great by design or by luck, as it gives a false impression of some FE.

I open smaller pre just as is my habit now, sure we give better immediate odds but always unlikely oppos will limp fold given less favourable odds.  Obv different if we are stronger and feel can shift more across the line pre.  But as a rule the tweaking of pf sizing just allows us to play better poker post.  (I'm sure you're pretty good at this actually having seenn some of your hands broadcast).

Flop raise sizing is ok, achieving isolation and extracting value from decent range.  Then just sigh....

In alot of ways its an auto srack off IMO.

In an anted tournament this may be a shoe AIPF (myeh) but def on flop.

Trying to decide if I shove flop or not......I'd be tempted tbh.  But easy to say that because of his known holding.

Sigh UL bud.

AMYBR

lol this hand has bugged me.  Its just what I hate about poker at the minute.  Guy limp calls w 26bigs, flops the world.

I dont hate him opening 2.2 - 7x here as would just be a better line obv, making a 24bb ship just standard for you.

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......... (running bad just now obv lol).

smarr

you suck run better