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Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?

AMYBRAMYBR Member Posts: 3,432
edited October 2012 in The Poker Clinic
Havent posted in awhile and this kind of feels like an interesting spot.

Been running pretty bad for awhile.  No drama's, is what it is.

Live Nl100.  Effective stack is 140bigs or so.

Game is winding down.  Am basically even on the night, feel have edge on oppos, just no hands of merit or real spots.  Table is pretty unbluffable as call downs very light.

4 handed.  Am in BB with 9d10d.  utg limps as does button, as does SB.  Everyone is relatively deep, but stack of oppo is 140bigs ish. Just looking to create a spot so make it £4 just hoping for a favourable flop for most part, uber unlikely to be limp 3bet @ this table in this spot.

All seats call.  £16 in pot KdQs4d.  SB checks I open for £7, just to get something started, yet be able to call a likely raise.  All seats fold other than nitty SB who c/r's to £23.  My image is very solid also.

Am obv happy with my equity but oppo will very rarely c/r a hand he will fold here.  He will be strong always, but oppo prefers to play smaller pots so is very unlikely to have a draw.

Based on equity and action killing turn cards, plus my happiness to GII here at highest point of equity to create a win on the evening, reloading when it goes south, I commit to £62, fully expecting a ship behind.

How do we feel?  Just full on spew mode or standard GII equity spot.  As said, oppo is a nit.  Much more likely to have a set, 2pr than bigger draw as played.
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited October 2012
    nitty SB c/r on flop - will he fold to a 4bet - odds against I reckon
    and you have an idiot gs & a medium fd - and position
    would not call and see the turn be a better way to use your strength - ie position - given that you are most likely behind at the moment?
  • AMYBRAMYBR Member Posts: 3,432
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    nitty SB c/r on flop - will he fold to a 4bet - odds against I reckon and you have an idiot gs & a medium fd - and position would not call and see the turn be a better way to use your strength - ie position - given that you are most likely behind at the moment?
    Posted by GELDY
    Sorry Geldy, fleshed out opening post.

    Agree with your line some of the time.  In this spot Oppo will just shutdown on all scary turn cards and open big on the safe ones however.

    Am comfortable GII (getting it in) here or picking it up as is.  But there will be no value to be had vs nitty oppo on transparent turns and kind of leave ourself in ugly territory with bricks.  Bit of a hmmm spot as I said.  Not sure either way. Being well rolled made it feel like a snap but..hmmmmm
  • Lambert180Lambert180 Member Posts: 12,197
    edited October 2012
    From what you've said, calling seems bad if you're not gonna get paid anything when you do hit, and when you don't you're just gonna have lost that bet. And opponent is never check/raise/folding, so if you discount any FE and just assume that we have 9 diamonds, and 3 jacks to hit, that makes you about 52% favourite by my workings.

    If you fancy a spin :)
  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH Member Posts: 17,929
    edited October 2012

    Opponents most likely hands are 44 and KQ w/ reads given. 

    So if we get it in................

    equity win tie      pots won pots tied
    Hand 0: 37.197%   37.20% 00.00%          4419        0.00   { Td9d }
    Hand 1: 62.803%   62.80% 00.00%          7461        0.00   { 44, KQs, KQo }

    £46 in pot, £16 to call, nearly 3.9/1 immediate odds to hit 1 of 12 outs we think we have on the turn, which is about 24% (almost exactly 3.9/1).

    So even if he shuts down 100% and we don't get another penny when we hit, you're still making a break even call otf. 

    Also I don't believe anyone shuts down 100% on every good turn for us.

    If a red jack comes, I don't think he's going to c/f his 444 for example. 

    Call!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • rancidrancid Member Posts: 5,945
    edited October 2012
    sb just makes up so could have draw/set/2 prs

    you say oppo doesn't wanna play big pots so oppo must have something they want to get it all in with - right

    how happy are you with your hand, reverse implied odds but how likely is it oppo has a bigger draw
    is oppo more likely to c/c w/draw

    if you put oppo on set/2 prs then how is you FD+GD now ? Don't think it's that close, your probably 40% versus 2 prs - not so good shape versus sets - do you have any fold equity - does oppo ever c/r bluffs multi way ?

    Probably just call the c/r with position - if you have any FE then do you what you did







  • AMYBRAMYBR Member Posts: 3,432
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    From what you've said, calling seems bad if you're not gonna get paid anything when you do hit, and when you don't you're just gonna have lost that bet. And opponent is never check/raise/folding, so if you discount any FE and just assume that we have 9 diamonds, and 3 jacks to hit, that makes you about 52% favourite by my workings. If you fancy a spin :)
    Posted by Lambert180
    Yeah pretty much this.

    DOh:  Not really looking for a break even spot tbh.  Feeling like all my outs are live in this spot as oppo has tendancy to keep pots smaller on draws.  When C/ring here his range is more often going to be sets 2prs and maybe Aq/K.  Dont think i've ever seen him inflate a pot without a made hand.  Dont really like just calling in this spot tbh.  Turn bricks and we are left likely folding or equity shipping.  Both of which I hate.  Felt more comfortable getting GII vs nit holding a hand he cant fold with high equity for a decent profit on the night.  If board runs out a brick am still going to feel like I gave self best chance to win fo a pot worth taking, rather than  being in uglysville on turn.

    Think we can assume next to 0 FE.  Am not going to complain if he nit folds AK tho :p  Kind of why it was a weird spot though.  Recognising next to 0 FE but quite sure nit shutsdown if I make my hand
  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH Member Posts: 17,929
    edited October 2012

    I don't think it's a break even spot when we call coz we still have some implied odds. I don't believe he plays perfectly on the turn/river the times we hit. We have 3 disguised jacks. 

    He will also try and house up probably so we get at least 1 street when we hit. 

    Calling is definitely +ev imo. And at very least, neutral ev. 

    -----------------------------------

    Getting it in.......

    We have £109xbb behind. 

    Pot is 46xbb. 

    He's never going to fold to our shove so lets assume his raise is a shove.

    So the pot is now hypothetically £155, and it's £109 to call.....

    1.42/1 = 40%

    Against KQ/44, we have 37% equity, so getting it in is also +ev. 

    -----------------

    If we make assumptions .....

    a) we call and hit, we never get any more action.

    b) we shove, he never folds.

    Then shoving is prob your better option anyway. 

    Don't agree with assumption a though, but you know the player better than I do.

    Conclusion

    As long as you don't fold, you're gonna make money long term whatever u do :)


    ........... I think ...............


  • AMYBRAMYBR Member Posts: 3,432
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    I don't think it's a break even spot when we call coz we still have some implied odds. I don't believe he plays perfectly on the turn/river the times we hit. We have 3 disguised jacks.  He will also try and house up probably so we get at least 1 street when we hit.  Calling is definitely +ev imo. And at very least, neutral ev.  ----------------------------------- Getting it in....... We have £109xbb behind.  Pot is 46xbb.  He's never going to fold to our shove so lets assume his raise is a shove. So the pot is now hypothetically £155, and it's £109 to call..... 1.42/1 = 40% Against KQ/44, we have 37% equity, so getting it in is also +ev.  ----------------- If we make assumptions ..... a) we call and hit, we never get any more action. b) we shove, he never folds. Then shoving is prob your better option anyway.  Don't agree with assumption a though, but you know the player better than I do. Conclusion As long as you don't fold, you're gonna make money long term whatever u do :) ........... I think ...............
    Posted by DOHHHHHHH
    Nice post.

    Just speaking for myself, stacks arent set up right to 3bet shove.  But as I typed this  <------  (:p)  I think you actually are likely right.  Mainly just to avoid the situation where oppo flats looking for a brick turn to ship.

    Had I believed this particular oppo would have paid me off if I had flatted, I think I would have flatted the cr.  The 3bet was on the basis that he would shutdown alot of the time.  He is never bluffing and unlikely to have a draw.  It all went in on flop and he called Ad10d or 9d10d so felt like it was right decision however it went.  He held Q4o
  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH Member Posts: 17,929
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    So the pot is now hypothetically £155, and it's £109 to call..... 1.42/1 = 40% 
    Posted by DOHHHHHHH
    I think I may have gone wrong here. 

    is the 40% the equity we need, or the price we're getting?

    nvm too much maths is killing my head.

    "feeling brain dead constantly killed me a little" - The_don90

    Close anyway, can't be too bad. gamble!

    Did we get there?
  • AMYBRAMYBR Member Posts: 3,432
    edited October 2012
    Of course :p  Had to wait two whole streets though.  Didnt hugely care if it bricked out though. Was happy enough with line at time but then hmmmmmmmmmm....  You know me, situational as always :p

    tbh didnt obsess about the math too much in the hand, beyond the obv.  Think we can comfortably discount a bigger draw given particular oppo & line.  So just happy spinning with as much money in on flop as we can get in there stacks being what they were.  Still not happy 3 bet shoving but agree may have been best taking everything into account.
  • BorinLonerBorinLoner Member Posts: 3,863
    edited October 2012
    Dohhhhhhh:

    46:16 = 2.875:1 not 3.9:1

    Lambert:

    12 outs never makes us a favourite. If we're up against just top pair here, we have around 40-45% chance to win.

    AMYBR:

    You're getting it in on this flop knowing you're behind, knowing that the only thing making it profitable long-term is the money already in the middle, if you can never get a fold from your opponent. I think calling to see a turn is more profitable in the long-term because I agree with Dohhhhhhh that nobody ever plays perfect poker and your opponent is unlikely to immediately lock-up if you make your hand. Your direct odds of nearly 3:1 are good enough to make a call profitable if you only have some small implied odds.


    I'm not posting much at the moment because of trouble with my eyes. So don't be asking me follow-up questions or owt. lol
  • NColleyNColley Member Posts: 1,178
    edited October 2012
    cbet bigger

    not saying your opponents are capable of exploiting you but your bet size screams of 'I WANT TO SEE TURN PLZ'

    As played its better to flat, you got a great price to see the turn, and I think its pretty unlikely hes going to just snap give up a diamond turn because if you had the NFD you'd just get it in right.
  • rancidrancid Member Posts: 5,945
    edited October 2012
    shoving over the c/r s only going to be good with FE - if oppo range is wider to include hands that fold = shove
    If oppo does have TPTK then your basically flipping + a % of FE always makes us feel good

    think you can call and still get value when you hit

    imo think it's a bit spewy to shove with FE -  semi bluffing with no FE is not good

    don't think we can say hypothetically we are calling our stack off with 40% because we ain't )

    call or shove though FWIW
  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH Member Posts: 17,929
    edited October 2012
    ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh balls.

    that makes both my posts utter nonsense then. sigh. 

    Only woke up early to do a bank transfer, wish I hadn't bothered logging on here!!!!!!!! 

    ha, cheerz for putting me right BL.
  • AMYBRAMYBR Member Posts: 3,432
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    cbet bigger not saying your opponents are capable of exploiting you but your bet size screams of 'I WANT TO SEE TURN PLZ' As played its better to flat, you got a great price to see the turn, and I think its pretty unlikely hes going to just snap give up a diamond turn because if you had the NFD you'd just get it in right.
    Posted by NColley
    Not at all, it was a 3bet to GII on flop believing oppo very rarely c/r folds or flats.  As initially said, was fully expecting a ship behind.  Would have hated to see oppo flat and play turn tbh, its why I agreed that (although stack sizes are slightly wrong) 3bet shoving is likely better than 3betting to force oppo to ship (given specific reads).

    As said, the sticking point in the hand is the fact that oppo will be very unlikely to put anything into the pot if we make our hand on turn.  But will fire big on all bricks.  Vs a not so good/nitty player I would definately have flatted.  But oppo is pretty risk averse and always in sigh fold mode (being less likely to make a casual mistake), plus my range is pretty polarised 

    Well rolled = spin

    Also not 12 outs
  • ybyb Member Posts: 1,471
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts? : I think I may have gone wrong here.  is the 40% the equity we need, or the price we're getting? nvm too much maths is killing my head. "feeling brain dead constantly killed me a little" - The_don90 Close anyway, can't be too bad. gamble! Did we get there?
    Posted by DOHHHHHHH
    its the equity we need, and by my calculations its ~44%, assuming that the opponent is never folding, so if your ranges are right getting it in would be -ev.

    fwiw i'm never raising to get stacks in versus a nit here, ambyr if you think he can raise sometimes with AQ, why can't he have flush draws in his range also that crush us?
  • scotty77scotty77 Member Posts: 4,970
    edited October 2012
    Check pre.  Dunno wtf you wanna be doing raising a pot to a pointless amount to then play Ten high OOP.


  • ybyb Member Posts: 1,471
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    Check pre.  Dunno wtf you wanna be doing raising a pot to a pointless amount to then play Ten high OOP.
    Posted by scotty77
    yeah +1, when you do a bet/raise it should be for a better reason than to 'get something started' imo
  • AMYBRAMYBR Member Posts: 3,432
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    Check pre.  Dunno wtf you wanna be doing raising a pot to a pointless amount to then play Ten high OOP.
    Posted by scotty77
    I'd be very surprised if you hadnt ever tried to create a pot MW with a hand of equity 4 handed as a game winds down Ryan........ but ok.

    I find it interesting that despite the points discussed within the thread this is the most constructive thing that you can think to say.

    I think anyone can come up with a host of good reasons to opt to raise out of the BB here, or equally to check.  I didnt really think it was neccessary to lay it all out.

  • AMYBRAMYBR Member Posts: 3,432
    edited October 2012
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts?:
    In Response to Re: Hmmm spot vs nit to get into profit: thoughts? : its the equity we need, and by my calculations its ~44%, assuming that the opponent is never folding, so if your ranges are right getting it in would be -ev. fwiw i'm never raising to get stacks in versus a nit here, ambyr if you think he can raise sometimes with AQ, why can't he have flush draws in his range also that crush us?
    Posted by yb

    tbh I prob shouldnt have included AQ in his range in the thread.  It would be a very outside chance and was kind of just opening the the potential range of different oppos.  It just is far more likely he would have 2pr TPTK or 4's.  I'd typed earlier in the thread that know this individuals tendancies quite well, in that he likes to keep pots small unto he has a lock then value pound, but equally be in perpetual sigh fold mode on ugly run outs.  cr'ing a draw, even a combi draw would be unlikely from this paricular individual.
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