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Old 10-25-2009, 03:41 AM     Post subject: AJ top two facing river decision 50NL #1 (permalink)  
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villain is 23/19/5.8 over 622 hands, regular on a few of my tables. Pretty active player. The only time we tangled was BvB in another table where I raised PFR he flatted, board came Q66 two soots and he raised my cbet and i folded. Thats pretty much the only history. Im a nittagg n i dont see why he would think other wise.

What about turn? Should I have B/F?

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Old 10-25-2009, 05:03 AM #2 (permalink)  
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What is your reasoning behind your flop raise?
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Old 10-25-2009, 05:07 AM #3 (permalink)  
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Yeah not a fan of your flop raise.
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:09 AM #4 (permalink)  
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I don't think the flop raise is very good, but if you're going to check back this turn you should definitely call this river--If you fold this river then it makes no sense and you might as well have just bet/folded the turn.
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Old 10-25-2009, 02:22 PM #5 (permalink)  
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Not to be a broken record. But I would think that raising the flop only gets him to fold his worse hands and call with sets/FDs. I think his range becomes much wider with just a call. As the hand went down I think B/F Turn would be good. I guess folding river if he calls turn and leads. I dont see what we would beat by that point.
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Old 10-25-2009, 02:26 PM #6 (permalink)  
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Were you trying to bluff him off of AQ and AK when you raised the flop so now he always has a flush or a set? I guess you should fold the river then.
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Old 10-25-2009, 04:55 PM #7 (permalink)  
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fold river, and after you raise flop (which i would not have and if you are going to raise, raise enough so at least you're not giving him great odds with any draw), bet the turn - 15ish so you can bet/fold and also get value from AK/AQ with Ks or something.
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Old 10-25-2009, 06:26 PM #8 (permalink)  
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Ahhh some very good points here.

I raised the flop bcuz i was expecting him to cbet there with almost his entire range and wanted to fold out most of his hands including any FD. Also I didn't want UTG+1 to call with a draw after i call the bet. Leakage reasoning for raising?

What would have been a better play? Call, re-evalute on turn? what kind of turn card would we call a 2nd barrel (if we call one at all) with?
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Old 10-25-2009, 06:39 PM #9 (permalink)  
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Ahhh some very good points here.

I raised the flop bcuz i was expecting him to cbet there with almost his entire range and wanted to fold out most of his hands including any FD. Also I didn't want UTG+1 to call with a draw after i call the bet. Leakage reasoning for raising?

What would have been a better play? Call, re-evalute on turn? what kind of turn card would we call a 2nd barrel (if we call one at all) with?
so you WERE bluffing on the flop.. that is interesting

fold preflop call flop.....
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Old 10-25-2009, 06:56 PM #10 (permalink)  
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Yeah I'd rather not bluff with bluff catchers. Like you said you beat a ton of his range on the flop. So you should call to keep all those hands in the pot so that they can continue betting.
 
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Old 10-25-2009, 07:23 PM #11 (permalink)  
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fold preflop
Care to share your thoughts on this? Im calling AJ almost 100% vs described villian in the absence of habitual squeezer. I figure to be ahead of his range and having position I feel like hes gonna be playing very straightforward.
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Old 10-26-2009, 04:21 AM #12 (permalink)  
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Folding aj pre in this spot is not an option in my mind. Villains a reg isoing a presumed weaker player, thus is range isn't all that strong, you have aj, a hand ahead of his isoing range plus you'll be in position against the reg and likely the fish if he limp calls.
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Old 10-26-2009, 02:48 PM #13 (permalink)  
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I think raising this flop can be good sometimes, with proper reads dynamic. I'd prefer it a lot more with AQ and obv with AK if we flatted that pre.

I don't think everyone can say they hate the flop raise without more reads on villain. Some people regs will never fold any A here thinking you rep so narrow and prob have a FD. Others will think you're FoS and re-bluff you here.

With proper reads I don't mind it to merge your value raising range here, but otherwise obv call is standard.

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Old 10-26-2009, 03:26 PM #14 (permalink)  
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I don't think everyone can say they hate the flop raise without more reads on villain.
This was something that I was going to point out. You need to spend a little more time getting reads on regs. You have 622 hands played vs this reg and have a read of 1 hand you played BvB. I suggest playing less tables and start taking some notes. On a site like Stars, if you can't datamine and your not buying HH's, then stop relying on hud stats and start taking notes. He's played enough hands at showdown for you to get some notes.

FWIW, I also fold AJo pre vs regs opening UTG and MP if I don't have a note on how they play TP postflop. AJs I flat, and no way I balloon a pot on the flop without more history with TPGK
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Old 10-26-2009, 07:05 PM #15 (permalink)  
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guys its 5 handed so we are calling a CO raise OTB, which is totally standard here. Blah blah, call flop, and i call river as played because villain can be vbetting worse with the line you took.
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Old 10-26-2009, 07:28 PM #16 (permalink)  
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I don't think we can care if it's 5 handed. We have huge reverse implied situation here playing a hand that will rarely make more than TP at best. Are we comfortable playing 3 streets when either an A or J hits the flop and somebody isn't going away. What do we expect to get from this hand in a best case scenario?

I'd rather squeeze it if I am going to play it.
 
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Old 10-26-2009, 08:13 PM #17 (permalink)  
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lol at no one rethinking calling with AJo here when the loosest player in the thread says to fold. calling is easily the worst option with this hand when u lack initiative and implied odds in a multiway pot where you have position but bad relative position.
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Old 10-26-2009, 08:36 PM #18 (permalink)  
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raising flop is good against aggros who will level themselves into thinking your range is polarized and call down w 88 on non-spade boards...
when the vpip's are high and the value bets are like razors, who can be safe?
 
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Old 10-26-2009, 08:38 PM #19 (permalink)  
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Wow nuts, I missed your first post in this thread. Surprised that didn't /thread as it is. Funnily, I also agreed with the right guy for a change.
 
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Old 10-26-2009, 09:55 PM #20 (permalink)  
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lol at no one rethinking calling with AJo here when the loosest player in the thread says to fold. calling is easily the worst option with this hand when u lack initiative and implied odds in a multiway pot where you have position but bad relative position.
and let's not forget the chances of being squeezed folks.

now how about 3 betting preflop as a bluff?

this would of course assume we have a tight enough image and the right opponent isolating who will fold often enough or just call and c/f a ton of flops, and in the case that we don't have this weak of an opponent to pick on, we revert to folding. what are your thoughts on this?
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Old 10-27-2009, 05:08 PM #21 (permalink)  
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hmm, i just dont see how calling w/ AJo OTB vs a CO iso raiser isn't going to be right. I can see 3betting, but folding preflop here just seems so bad. I guess i'm not seeing something, but CO's stats are mine to the T and i'm iso'ing way wider than AJo here.
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Old 10-27-2009, 05:53 PM #22 (permalink)  
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hmm, i just dont see how calling w/ AJo OTB vs a CO iso raiser isn't going to be right. I can see 3betting, but folding preflop here just seems so bad. I guess i'm not seeing something, but CO's stats are mine to the T and i'm iso'ing way wider than AJo here.
Yah I'm in this camp as well. I can see folding AJo here if a 19/16 tagg iso's but not vs an aggro 23/19. I'd agree that 3betting might be better, but I can't see how calling is -EV unless you are pretty bad postflop.
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Old 10-27-2009, 07:08 PM #23 (permalink)  
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we can also bluffshove riv
when the vpip's are high and the value bets are like razors, who can be safe?
 
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Old 10-27-2009, 07:20 PM #24 (permalink)  
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we can also bluffshove riv
nooo way.. he's got spades here or a worse hand than us. No benefit for shoving here over just calling... its not like he has anything better that will fold.
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Old 10-28-2009, 01:40 AM #25 (permalink)  
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if we re a nittag and he s got a low flush and he s decent he can def fold it without much thought
when the vpip's are high and the value bets are like razors, who can be safe?
 
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Old 10-28-2009, 01:50 AM #26 (permalink)  
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if we re a nittag and he s got a low flush and he s decent he can def fold it without much thought
That seems really overly optimistic to think villain is ever folding a flush of any kind here especially after we check behind the turn.
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Old 10-28-2009, 04:24 AM #27 (permalink)  
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well let s just say that if you re villain in this hand, hero is a nittag, and you get shoved over with a low flush, i d bet a zillion dollars calling is a losing play vs most "nittags" over a decent sample
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Old 10-28-2009, 08:30 PM #28 (permalink)  
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For sure but I don't know if ppl at this level will make the right fold here. They'll just go damm this must be a sick cooler and click call.
 
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Old 10-28-2009, 10:31 PM #29 (permalink)  
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just for fun, if somone posted this hand from villain's perspective in this forum and we had say that we decided not to flip with on the flop, I m pretty sure that the huge majority of replies to the hand would say "fold since this nittag has the nuts"
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Old 10-28-2009, 11:20 PM #30 (permalink)  
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but he'd be posting it cause he clicked call....

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Old 10-29-2009, 12:58 AM #31 (permalink)  
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Yeah people won't fold a flush here even if they should, so even if a shove is good in theory it's definitely not in practice.
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Old 11-02-2009, 01:03 PM #32 (permalink)  
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as played I would call river. I would have called flop too.
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