Floats gone wild, the poker edition.

[Ragnar4]

No stat reads, but I had seen 5 hands on the guy, and 2 of the hands that he had played were extremely bloated pots.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($1.97)
UTG+1 ($1.27)
MP1 ($5.28)
Hero (MP2) ($2.05)
CO ($2.77)
Button ($6.79)
SB ($1.96)
BB ($0.44)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 5, 6
3 folds, Hero bets $0.06, 2 folds, SB raises to $0.20, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.14

Flop: ($0.42) 9, K, 2 (2 players)
SB bets $0.16, Hero calls $0.16

Turn: ($0.74) J (2 players)
SB bets $0.22, Hero raises to $1.69 (All-In)

Total pot: $1.18 | Rake: $0.05

Obviously this was a pure bluff float that gained equity on the Turn. My big question is this: The more and more I thought about this hand, I realized that I probably had much less FE than I originally estimated.

My original plan was to pot-bet if he checked to me on the turn. And fold if he fired again. The spade was a bonus.

[Ragnar4]

hmm.. didn't mean to post with the title ASDF...

If someone could please change the title to "Floats gone wild, the poker edition."

[grnydrowave2]

Maybe I'm a nit, but I fold pre and failing that fold to the 3-bet. Flop is dry, but I still don't feel comfortable floating in a 3-bet pot without some kind of read. It would be nice to know if his bet sizing means anything.

I have no reason to think there is much fold equity on the turn. You have to assume that a villain who 3-bet and then double-barreled has some kind of hand. And people don't like to fold at 2nl, lol.

[Imthenewfish]

fold pre, postflop seems meh at best

[kickass]

Whats your question? Is this good?
I'd like to know what you put him on and what you thought you could make fold.

[JR9477]

Making big plays against unknowns at 2nl just seems like a bad idea to me.

[EasyPoker]

Making big plays against unknowns at 2nl IS 100% a bad idea.

FYP

[spoonitnow]

Fold equity sucks, pot equity sucks, plus he's barreling a lot of turns. This is a really bad spot to float. Also fold pre-flop.

[Donachello]

I hate this a lot at any level lower than 25NL and I still hate it there.

[daven]

every street played terribly

[OngBonga]

Wow, floating at 2nl. I tried this once and then remembered people don't fold top pair very often.

Seriously, you have got to put him on a range and then determine what part of that range he folds before you float. If you've got a read on this guy that suggests he can fold AK to this turn shove, then maybe this is an ok move, but I really don't think many people fold AK at this level when it hits, I mean enough people have trouble letting it go when it misses ffs.

Really, we don't need to bluff at 2nl to make monies, and since people don't like to fold, it's probably a bad idea to try.


And I hope river was a spade and villain shows kings.