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Polezi
Joined: 13.08.2009

Poker Stars, $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: $10.04 (100.4 bb)
BB: $33.20 (332 bb)
Hero (UTG): $20.01 (200.1 bb)
MP: $19.19 (191.9 bb)
CO: $7.95 (79.5 bb)
BTN: $13.76 (137.6 bb) VPIP: 15, PFR: 9, 3B: 4, FCB 38, AF: 1,1, Hands: 350 WTSD% 28(39) W$TD% 36(11)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with K Q
Hero raises to $0.30, 2 folds, BTN calls $0.30, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.75) A K Q (2 players)
Hero bets $0.36, BTN calls $0.36

Turn: ($1.47) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.91, BTN raises to $2.61, Hero folds

Results:

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$3.29 pot ($0.15 rake)
Final Board: A K Q 2
Hero mucked K Q and lost (-$1.57 net)
BTN mucked and won $3.14 ($1.57 net)

How did you play this hand?


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Alleen86
Joined: 27.05.2010

Vs this villain, I think it's well played. Hi is a real nit and when he decides to raise a cbet (especially a turn cbet), he has top two or better 99% of the time, imo.


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Jaissica
Joined: 10.02.2009

Most of his obvious value range is blocked by even nitty BTN vs UTG 3bet ranges.

Either you are being trapped with a monster flat preflop, or it is JT. There are precious few semi bluffs on this board, and precious few hands that can continue that KQ is in front of.

I think we need to turn KQ into a bluff catcher on the turn here after the villain calls the flop. We are not ahead of much that can continue with no flush draws out there. Some Tx and Jx paired hands hoping to gutter out, perhaps with BDFD. Everything else that can continue has us crushed in some way or another - and the villain is super duper nitty for SH.

X-C turn and X-F river if the villain doesn't slow / we don't fill up.


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

Villains f2cbet is low and he probably got a piece of that flop, I would bet bigger.
OTT x/c
OTR x/f.


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

Well, we can xc turn... As played - we should fold. WP.


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Hesticus
Joined: 24.06.2008

Can't we check OTF vs villain here? How much equity do we really have against such a nit?


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Jaissica
Joined: 10.02.2009

I think we still bet this flop to fold out underpairs, protect from gutters and valuetown weak ax kx calls.

I just dont think we have many streets of value here vs a continuing range. Most of what we beat is folding.

By checking the turn we might induce bets from tpbk hands who put us on a kx or qx bluffcatcher. Well, we are on both a kx and a qx bluffcatcher; so that read is technically correct :)

Cant check the flop though as wr do want to protect the pot from super low equity suckouts. It would be kind of gross to x-x that flop, x-c turn and river and see the villain had turned a set of 2s.


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YohanN7
Joined: 15.06.2009

We should never bet solely to protect from low equity suck-outs. That logic applies to limit Holde'm, but in NL it is simply too expensive to try. In other words, giving free cards in FL is a disaster. Not so in NL, because the alternative is too expensive. Old-timers logic (Sklansky's in this case), but still correct in the era of 5-bet/fold ranges.


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