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Old 12-14-2006, 08:43 PM     Post subject: Top pair vs Turn check-raise #1 (permalink)  
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Villian is 33/4 through about 200 hands...that's pretty much it for my read...

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Preflop: Hero is CO with A, J.
4 folds, Hero raises, 1 fold, SB calls, BB calls.

Flop: (6 SB) A, T, 8 (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets, SB calls, BB folds.

Turn: (4 BB) K (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB raises, Hero.....
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Old 12-14-2006, 08:47 PM #2 (permalink)  
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I've been losing a lot by calling in spots like these lately against semi-sane opponents.
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Old 12-14-2006, 08:48 PM #3 (permalink)  
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Hard to say. Probably beat. Calling these down with TP and essentially no kicker hurts a lot and is a major cause of poor winrates worldwide.

I probably check through turn.
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Old 12-14-2006, 08:52 PM #4 (permalink)  
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33/4 suggests a player that doesn't like to raise without the goods. Looks like KT or QJ (maybe K8) just hit, or you got slow-played on the flop. The pot is relatively small, and no odds on the straight draw. Fold Fold Fold.

I hate folding TPGK here, and I call down decent hands more than most players here (maybe that's why I make more bb/100 at low stakes). But a player that passive preflop is rarely aggressive enough post flop for you to call here.
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Old 12-14-2006, 09:07 PM #5 (permalink)  
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Hard to say. Probably beat. Calling these down with TP and essentially no kicker hurts a lot and is a major cause of poor winrates worldwide.

I probably check through turn.
I think I definately am calling down in spots like these a bit too often. Checking through the turn is definately not a response I was expecting though. Aren't you worried about giving a free card and not extracting the most from what is essentially a calling here when you have a fairly good hand? Does anybody else here consider checking through the turn?
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Old 12-14-2006, 10:05 PM #6 (permalink)  
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Well, you're getting 7-1 on your draw, 8-1 including implieds, but you need 11.5-1 to be able to go solely for the gutshot. You're a 4.5-1 underdog if villain has AT, 3.75-1 if villain has KT or worse.

Villain's range includes: AT, AK, KT, QJ, T8, TT, 88; so 3/7 the time we're drawing to 4 outs, needing 11.5-1. 2/7 we're drawing to 10 outs, needing 3.75-1. 1/7 we're fucked up the ass completely, and the other 1/7 we have 7 outs, needed 4.5-1.

Add these up percentages up and you have roughly 15% chance to win the hand, getting 8-1 (12.5%), its a call.

Sounds simple enough, and you have to believe the likelihood of him having each hand is relatively the same, other than the sheer number of times he is dealt each hand. It's close, and its definately not an easy fold and I'll probably call here and check/fold the river if I don't improve.


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Old 12-14-2006, 10:32 PM #7 (permalink)  
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Well, you're getting 7-1 on your draw, 8-1 including implieds, but you need 11.5-1 to be able to go solely for the gutshot. You're a 4.5-1 underdog if villain has AT, 3.75-1 if villain has KT or worse.

Villain's range includes: AT, AK, KT, QJ, T8, TT, 88; so 3/7 the time we're drawing to 4 outs, needing 11.5-1. 2/7 we're drawing to 10 outs, needing 3.75-1. 1/7 we're fucked up the ass completely, and the other 1/7 we have 7 outs, needed 4.5-1.

Add these up percentages up and you have roughly 15% chance to win the hand, getting 8-1 (12.5%), its a call.

Sounds simple enough, and you have to believe the likelihood of him having each hand is relatively the same, other than the sheer number of times he is dealt each hand. It's close, and its definately not an easy fold and I'll probably call here and check/fold the river if I don't improve.
Now, what if our read on Hero is that he is currently 7-tabling and is not Rainman, so can't do complex math quickly in his head? How should he then go about deciding on calling vs folding? So, do you actually work out problems like that while playing? Or do you just sort of remember that in a similar situation, you had previously decided to call/fold?

BTW, I am very much against methods such that you used to decide on calling here or not. That math relies so heavily on assumptions that we just don't know that the math itself becomes worthless. If we add one more hand into his possible holdings(for example A4 or a complete bluff) or we take out one(maybe T8), it totally changes the math and will give us a different answer. Or what if he is much more likely to raise with the top half of hands in terms of strength?
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Old 12-14-2006, 10:43 PM #8 (permalink)  
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You raise many questions but they're not all that hard to answer.

First, the wider your villain's range is the more likely I'm going to call. The more aggressive your villain's range is the more likely I'm going to call. Villain has a wide calling range but not that much of a raising range, and I would say 95% of the time you're beat here. How often are villains raising their draws on the turn in this game? I'm guessing not very many....

In terms of generalitys and it is something I always stood buy, when in doubt, call it down. The call is so marginal that it is not going to affect your winrate either way. Another reason to call is because it makes you more likely to call in the future in large pots, instead of autofolding. You're 7 tabling and this is the hand you give us??? Come on

IMO, there is no other way to solve this problem than put your villain on a range of hands, and figure out your equity to decide whether you call or not. If I were 7 tabling, I would probably still call the turn raise without much thought, it is folding for one bet on the river where I would have a problem...


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Old 12-14-2006, 11:06 PM #9 (permalink)  
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Once again, Jeff shows the folly of my replies. You really do have too many outs to fold here against the reasonable range of the opponent. 12 outs against 2pair not Aces up (most likely hand). And like Jeff said, the really interesting question is do we fold for 1 on the river if we don't improve.
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Old 12-14-2006, 11:25 PM #10 (permalink)  
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You raise many questions but they're not all that hard to answer.
maybe not too hard to answer, but at least for this hand, I called down, but the whole time thought that I maybe should have folded. Then the first few answers here all tell me I should fold, then you say it's a definate call....maybe it's a tougher question than it looks and similar situations come up often, so might as well make sure we are very right.


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First, the wider your villain's range is the more likely I'm going to call. The more aggressive your villain's range is the more likely I'm going to call. Villain has a wide calling range but not that much of a raising range, and I would say 95% of the time you're beat here. How often are villains raising their draws on the turn in this game? I'm guessing not very many.....
I will say that villains are raising draws more often than you'd think on the turn, but probably not this villian. So the 95% of the time we're beat has us leaning towards folding so far....

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IMO, there is no other way to solve this problem than put your villain on a range of hands, and figure out your equity to decide whether you call or not. If I were 7 tabling, I would probably still call the turn raise without much thought, it is folding for one bet on the river where I would have a problem...
My main problem here is that your math showed that it's a marginal call. If you were to switch it though and put say KT or AT as the two most likely holdings and then put T8 as a much less likely option, the math probably starts to show the hand as being a pretty obvious fold. So I can really get 2 answers to the problem that would both seem right, but only one of them really can be(and I'm guessing getting this situation right or wrong over and over again would add up to quite a bit of money for me).
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Old 12-14-2006, 11:53 PM #11 (permalink)  
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against KT, AT, T8, you should call them all with a minimum of 7 outs.
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Old 12-15-2006, 12:25 AM #12 (permalink)  
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You raise many questions but they're not all that hard to answer.
maybe not too hard to answer, but at least for this hand, I called down, but the whole time thought that I maybe should have folded. Then the first few answers here all tell me I should fold, then you say it's a definate call....maybe it's a tougher question than it looks and similar situations come up often, so might as well make sure we are very right.
I was referring to the second set of questions, not the first.

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First, the wider your villain's range is the more likely I'm going to call. The more aggressive your villain's range is the more likely I'm going to call. Villain has a wide calling range but not that much of a raising range, and I would say 95% of the time you're beat here. How often are villains raising their draws on the turn in this game? I'm guessing not very many.....
I will say that villains are raising draws more often than you'd think on the turn, but probably not this villian. So the 95% of the time we're beat has us leaning towards folding so far....
Fair nuff, haven't played that game in a while but just because we're beat doesn't mean we should fold.

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IMO, there is no other way to solve this problem than put your villain on a range of hands, and figure out your equity to decide whether you call or not. If I were 7 tabling, I would probably still call the turn raise without much thought, it is folding for one bet on the river where I would have a problem...
My main problem here is that your math showed that it's a marginal call. If you were to switch it though and put say KT or AT as the two most likely holdings and then put T8 as a much less likely option, the math probably starts to show the hand as being a pretty obvious fold. So I can really get 2 answers to the problem that would both seem right, but only one of them really can be(and I'm guessing getting this situation right or wrong over and over again would add up to quite a bit of money for me).
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Yeah, its the 88, TT, AK, and QJ that really fuck up your outs, not the two pair. IMO, the top two hands I put villain on are AK and QJ in this situation, given his stats, but I wouldn't put my hand reading skill (especially 7 tabling) to be able to fold this so in all essence its not a bad turn call. Calling on the river though without improvement would be pretty bad. Improving is board pairing too btw....


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Old 12-15-2006, 12:42 AM #13 (permalink)  
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Once again, Jeff shows the folly of my replies.
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Old 12-15-2006, 07:32 PM #14 (permalink)  
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I like a check through autocall with top pair midkickers in position a lot.

A) You'll induce a bluff from a hand thats missed
B) Anything that beats you here ain't going anywhere, and is going to make you pay with a c/r that you have to call.
C) WA/WB
D) You avoid the "do I fold for one bet on the river" problem
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Old 12-15-2006, 11:14 PM #15 (permalink)  
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I like a check through autocall with top pair midkickers in position a lot.
I've been toying with this a bit and it seems to work well against the sane/aggressive players. There aren't many fish who will check-call down any pair anymore

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Very true. If you call the check-raise on the turn the pot gets big enough that folding could be a mistake. Bad spot to be in.
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Old 12-15-2006, 11:36 PM #16 (permalink)  
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1. If we call the turn here amd do not improve what's a better river line:

Check/call
Check/fold
Bet/fold

I think C/f>b/f>c/c

2. If we call the turn and improve to either 3 of a kind or 2 pair what's the best river line:

C/C
B/f
B/c

I think c/c>b/f>b/c

3. If we call the turn and make our gutshot whats the line:

c/r
b/3bet
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1) b/f would be the last play I would do here.
2) c/c the whole way
3) b/3bet

I don't mind checking behind here too much if you don't get in the habit of over doing it and losing bets, which happens frequently.


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Old 12-16-2006, 12:28 AM #18 (permalink)  
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I think if we improve on the river we check raise. There are a lot more hands we beat than we don't if we have improved. And I think the proportion is big enough that we can risk getting 3-bet (which we obviously call). Sorry spenda, but c/c>b/f>b/c is just crazy talk.

I would say c/r>b/c>c/c and folding is just wrong.
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DOH!

Note to self...we're in fucking position

That being said

UI we fold to a river bet and check behind?
Improving 2 2pr or 3 Aces we call a donk or bet after a check?
Rivering our straight is a lot easier now.

Ya know, not sure if anyone has ever thought of this, but this game sure is easier in position.






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FWIW A river raise is just as bad. You're behind on the turn and you don't know how bad. You are behind to more hands than 2 pair or trips will beat, making a raise a bad thing, because folding to a 3bet would suck hard.


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Youre not raising if you improve to a straight? Sheesh, thats Lukie-nitty!

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