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Zanardi1
Joined: 04.01.2010

Pacific, $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 8 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $11.47 (114.7 bb)
Hero (BB): $10.25 (102.5 bb)
UTG+2: $6.70 (67 bb)
MP1: $4.85 (48.5 bb)
MP2: $10 (100 bb)
MP3: $6.39 (63.9 bb)
CO: $7.97 (79.7 bb)
BTN: $16.63 (166.3 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A Q
UTG+2 calls $0.10, 2 folds, MP3 raises to $0.20, 2 folds, SB calls $0.15, Hero calls $0.10, UTG+2 calls $0.10

Flop: ($0.80) 5 Q 8 (4 players)
SB bets $0.40, Hero raises to $1, 2 folds, SB calls $0.60

Turn: ($2.80) Q (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.40, SB calls $1.40

River: ($5.60) K (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Results: $5.60 pot ($0.28 rake)
Final Board: 5 Q 8 Q K

Spoiler

SB showed Q J and lost (-$2.60 net)
Hero showed A Q and won $5.32 ($2.72 net)

This is my first hand at NL10 after a long while, so, please, show no mercy!

The villain ia 16/8 from 198 hands. AFq 17.5%.

Preflop, at that time, I couldn't quite figure out what range would he open. Sure, I could 3bet, but this time I chose to call.

OTF I have TPTK and it's time to bet, for obvious reasons. However, the villain donks before me, so I put a quite small raise.

The turn doesn't change anything. I narrowed his range to :Qx: (except QQ), sets and :heart: draws. QQ is out of the question, because he would have made a 3bet preflop. So, it was time to bet to get value from lower queens and draws.

The river is a bad card. All the draws busted, KQ now beats me. The only thing I beat is QJ, so I check behind.

Q1: 3bet or call preflop?
Q2: as played, could I bet bigger on the turn?
Q3: did I play the hand correctly, or I won because I ran into the villain's bottom showdown range?


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excitedpoker
Joined: 12.08.2010

Flatting preflop looks pretty bad, $1.20 iso all day long. The flop raise doesn`t make a lot of sense, neither does the river check. The whole hand is pretty messed up IMO.


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Zanardi1
Joined: 04.01.2010

Originally posted by excitedpoker
The flop raise doesn`t make a lot of sense, neither does the river check.

I had two other guys acting after me. If I were to call, perhaps the other two would have called/raised. Then what? :)


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GoOnCal1
Joined: 22.01.2015
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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

You have a limper and a min raiser+caller. I would squeeze here and give them hard time to continue.


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YohanN7
Joined: 15.06.2009

The SB has no flush in his range and few full houses on the river. Bet!


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bonecore
Joined: 02.11.2009

i would bet/fold river (for value)


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marcosmartinez
Joined: 03.07.2013

if you are gonna raise flop, raise bigger

ott , bet bigger

u give him just a good price to call with his draws

as played vbet 55% pot river


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Once you get checked to on the river I think it's a clear bet. It must not be big.


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Alleen86
Joined: 27.05.2010

IMO, the biggest problem in this hand is not 3betting preflop against those limps/minraises. The river could be bet/fold or check back. I think that the flushes are not a big problem there because I don't see him having them that often. Fullhouses are also not probable because he would be more aggressive on the flop/turn. He might have KQ, true, but I still think that bet/folding with size of 1/2 or slightly less is better than checking back.


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

Not squeezing preflopis a mistake. On river you lose value with not betting.


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