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Did I make mistakes here?
Okay, the outcome of this hand surprised me so just want to know what you guys think of my play really.
I raised pre-flop to try get it heads up for the flop (atruered seemed to be a very tight player so I figured he would fold to any bet, unless he actually had something). I know my raise size maybe could have been bigger here.
Standard play on the turn I think after hitting my ace, 1/2 pot size bet was called.
The 9 on the river paired the board, which could have given him a set. For some reason I was putting him on a low pocket pair though, so decided to shove. Probably a bit hasty - would be interested to know what sort of cards you guys would put him on at this point (before he called my shove).
I raised pre-flop to try get it heads up for the flop (atruered seemed to be a very tight player so I figured he would fold to any bet, unless he actually had something). I know my raise size maybe could have been bigger here.
Standard play on the turn I think after hitting my ace, 1/2 pot size bet was called.
The 9 on the river paired the board, which could have given him a set. For some reason I was putting him on a low pocket pair though, so decided to shove. Probably a bit hasty - would be interested to know what sort of cards you guys would put him on at this point (before he called my shove).
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| peter27 | Small blind | 50.00 | 50.00 | 940.00 | |
| atruered | Big blind | 100.00 | 150.00 | 810.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| degsy1 | Fold | ||||
| spears04 | Fold | ||||
| kellymj | Fold | ||||
| IFi | Call | 100.00 | 250.00 | 785.00 | |
| peter27 | Raise | 150.00 | 400.00 | 790.00 | |
| atruered | Fold | ||||
| IFi | Call | 100.00 | 500.00 | 685.00 | |
| Flop | |||||
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| peter27 | Bet | 250.00 | 750.00 | 540.00 | |
| IFi | Call | 250.00 | 1000.00 | 435.00 | |
| Turn | |||||
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| peter27 | All-in | 540.00 | 1540.00 | 0.00 | |
| IFi | All-in | 435.00 | 1975.00 | 0.00 | |
| peter27 | Unmatched bet | 105.00 | 1870.00 | 105.00 | |
| peter27 | Show |
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| IFi | Show |
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| River | |||||
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| IFi | Win | Two Pairs, Aces and Queens | 1870.00 | 1870.00 | |
Comments
Happy to see a call.... happy to see them fold.
As played theres nothing you could do to get away from it, but yeah I open jam.
Just shove preflop!
Any stack below 10 big blinds is just shove or fold preflop.
still don't like the play though because we miss the flop 2 out of 3 times and I don't particularly want to shove with ace high or give him the chance to catch something. Prefer to get it all in pre take the 25% increase in our stack (if he folds) or see him call and be the favourite a lot of the time (or flip at worst).
and flop comes 9 5 2 or A 3 T or 7 Q 6 or 8 5 6
Would you ever be folding any of these hands on any of these boards with 350 chips and the pot is 1.3k?
FWIW we're trying to price the btn in, inducing him to shove over us pf and if he flats, he's committed on the flop regardless.
I.E. If he's the type to limp/call JT, then he's probbably the type to fold a missed flop. Just get him to commit the lot now as an underdog. If by shoving we can make him fold 22/33/44 maybe then hey that's even better.
Shoving is obviously fine.
Back to the hand in question, it would not be a 3bet as the guy had limped, so it would be a raise vs a limp, and to be quite honest, with him limping his hand is weak and remember he's missing that flop 67% of the time so I don't actually mind that he calls us for us to then donk jam the flop.
As this was a DYM, then the emphasis is on survival so I would just shove.
Having said that, if one of them went all-in pre-flop, then I would have called. As played, I shoved when I hit the flop.
So 12k in chips, how can you be in the top 3 with that stack?
Even if it's 1k starting stack (so 6k in play), you still have less than starting stack, how can you be one of the safe stacks?
This is an example what happened early this evening by not shoving with a 10bb stack against a player who does not recognise that this screams of strength and will call. Although he ended up hitting a nice flop he will have been priced in regardless on the flop.
So you can carry out this play against with a marginal hand against a good player. As a couple of you have already stated, this action makes our hand look super-strong.
Plus he had aq he wasn't that weak he just played it badly.
We started the hand as the 80% fav and on the flop we're now 66% - we've let them catch up considerably. With the 300 bet on the flop they now have to call 300 to win 1400.
and your raise pre does make your hand super strong but then again it IS super strong.
Against decent players you wont get this chance very often because decent players would not limp into the pot and so with your stack you wouldn't scare anyone- they'dhave to call regardless. so the shove achieves the same thing!
If I had shoved this hand pre, then this guy would not have called and I would have gained 300 chips, however because he is a poor player I made it so that he calls and without realising he is priced in. When you want a call you do it with a strong hand vs a poor player. When wanting a fold you can do it with a marginal hand vs a good player.
Imagine, I do this with let's say 9Ts and you're holding KTs, would you flat, shove or fold?