zoom, 85s, hand planning

Hi gasheks,

Preflop: looks fine

Postflop: flop is a cbet, as a bluff really (or weak semibluff). Ask yourself what types of turn/river cards you will see that will make you comfortable with the plan of calling twice (considering the limited to no info on the guy).

There are certain other hands you can check back with that can hold their own a bit better than your weak pairs (and can make better bluffcatchers).

With 85, if I can take the pot down on the flop that's great.

So checking back like K♠:3♠: would be good? Or we bet it because of quite wet board? What about hand like A♥:9♥:? Is it a good candidate for checking?

Hand A♣:5♣: we bet with intention to barrel club turns?

Hi gAsheks,

okay, to decide our gameplan with different hand types it's useful to think about villain's pre flop range and how it connects with the board. I would say villain, if he is a reg, will have a range that should consist of a bunch of broadways (suited and unsuited), PPs and some Axs.

On this board I think 9x are clear check backs, although we could argue for a thin value bet.

85 is good hand, in my opinion, to cbet flop with the intention of checking back turns and calling rivers that don't help villain's range (like J, Q, T or A), that we way we balance the hands we stab flop and give up turn (we should not be folding river everytime we check back turn after betting flop)

K3 it's close, it really depends on ranges. Like, if you min raise BU and BB calls a correct wide range Kx is definitely a value cbet. In this case SB range should be a lot stronger, so checking back weak Kx seems good since we don't have that much value in betting.