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dsaxton
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06-07-2007, 10:11 AM
Post subject: Live hand from Borgata. Check or bet turn?
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Arlington, VA
Posts: 2,667
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Not really a short-handed game, but I thought the hand was interesting.
This hand occured in a $1/$2NL cash game shortly after my friends and I arrived at the Borgata for the weekend.
A weaker player limps in middle position, and I raise to $10 next to act with J-9 of spades (he was limping with a lot of weak hands, so I started to isolate him with a wide range). The big blind, a terrible player, calls, and the limper calls. Flop comes J, T, x with two spades, big blind leads out for $20 (this could be any flopped pair, and probably isn't a very strong hand), limper calls quickly, and I raise to $60. The big blind immediately folds and the limper thinks for a second and then calls, apparently on a draw. The turn brings an offsuit Q, which I suspected may've improved many of the hands in his range, he checks quickly, and I get the sense that he's excited about his hand. Nonetheless, seeing all the money in the pot, I value bet / semi-bluff $120 with my pair of jacks, open-ended straight draw and flush draw, leaving myself with only about $60 behind. Should I have checked? Is this decision trivial?
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Numbr2intheWorld
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,561
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Go with your read and check behind. 89, K9, and even AK are definitely in his range (which all also go with the thinking about it on the flop tell). You probably have 0 FE here with a hand that you're losing to.
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Silly String
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Full House
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: KC, MO
Posts: 1,434
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I'm with Max, I take the free card here. The pot is big enough that you're getting paid on the river anyway given stack sizes.
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Playing live . . . thanks alot Bin Laden.
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sauce123
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Dizzy
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u need to make it 80 or 90 at least on flop
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I got more flava than fruitstripe gum
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