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HU SNG Hyper - Facing a river shove, what to do?
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xxx | Small blind | 20.00 | 20.00 | 505.00 | |
| step7 | Big blind | 40.00 | 60.00 | 435.00 | |
| Your hole cards |
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| xxx | Raise | 60.00 | 120.00 | 445.00 | |
| step7 | Call | 40.00 | 160.00 | 395.00 | |
| Flop | |||||
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| step7 | Check | ||||
| xxx | Check | ||||
| Turn | |||||
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| step7 | Check | ||||
| xxx | Bet | 95.00 | 255.00 | 350.00 | |
| step7 | Call | 95.00 | 350.00 | 300.00 | |
| River | |||||
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| step7 | Check | ||||
| xxx | All-in | 350.00 | 700.00 | 0.00 | |
1st game vs villain, so few reads-but not seen them doing anything too out of line.
Had seen them min raise Q2o pre, chk Qxx flop then check-raise me on 3 flush turn when i stabbed with a flush/gutshot draw with over card. So think I made a mistake here not leading to protect my hand, was planning to check raise shove the cbet that never happened! Donk leading is something I rarely do but think I need to get in the habit for Hypers.
The turn here is an obvious scare card but worringly they've set up (intentionally??) their stack for a pot sized bet on the river.
How should I react here on the river readless? Just concede I've fluffed the hand and move on to the next one? So many of my precious chips now in the middle 
Should I have flatted T8s 11BB deep in 1st place?
Any comments on the hand appreciated as I seem to be hammered with river shoves a lot.
Comments
you have not mentioned oppo raising frequency, what's oppo's range pre ?
How does your hand fair versus oppo's range
flop is ok, leading the flop is never going to be good
what would you be protecting against, overcards ?
then why are we defending pre
now it's either a bluff or your beat
think at that level it's that simple
fwiiw probs just fold pre if it's early and it's the first game with oppo
Build up more of a idea of how oppo plays before you start defending with 108s
Because it's a 50/50 spot just call and make note - a book of info in that hand alone to be gained
Once you get to 20/40 the effective stack is never gonna be bigger than 12xBB and often less, so you just can't be calling OOP with hands like that this look nice but you're just gonna check/fold so many flops
I'd jam pre tbh, you got plenty of FE against most players, and you will have good equity V his calling range anyway for the times he calls. Most people in these don't realise how bad raise/folding from 10xBB is and will do it at will.
As played, I donkbet the flop cos you can still get value from worse hands, protect your hand when he has 2 overs to our pair and you avoid the annoying spot where he just checks behind and a horrible turn card comes down and you have no idea where you are.
Just read again saw that you did plan to check raise flop and are aware of not donk betting messing up the hand once you have called.
I'd probably c/c this down...
Would expect an open shove pre flop w/Ax hands, and a cbet on the flop also.
Players @ micro games are normally passive, but if you've already seen him min raise Q2o it suggests he's at least moderately aggressive/competent @ this level compared to most players....
Having seen him min Q2 it makes a jam pre a better option as Ben & Lambert have already said. (he has alot of mr/fold hands in his range, therefore we have significant FE as well as good pot equity v his calling off range)
Normally they limp/limp/limp and then min raise their entire stack off range, so you can jam tighter over a minraise than normal. But a Q2 open suggests a T8s shove here is fine.
I don't like donk leading the flop, we should expect cbets on this board almost always.
Villain did show he can play trappy in the Q2 hand, but that was when he has top pair.(the nuts) Who knows how he's gonna play the same spot when he has nothing (most of the time)? We dnt know yet............
I think you're going to be good a reasonable amount of the time, and I'm curious, so I call.
Make sure u make a good note after tho, whatever the outcome! (and maybe look for more passive/straight forward opponents in the future, there are 00's of em
Sent u a PM yesterday btw step.
Well t8s with 11BB's is a fold really but for a small outlay you may catch nicely so i'm ok with it esp as he is low too. However he has played tricky once before which you did well to notice. So what do you want to be able to push? Flush draw with a pair or two pair. You've caught top pair and should bet as turn card is likely to create uncertainty.
I feel that you missed the boat with no bet on the flop and should just fold myself. Now its time to either rer ai or ai if first into the pot with your reduced stack size and an appropriate hand.