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Bad Tricky Play?

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jesusflorestz
Joined: 30.03.2021

Villain is a regular.

I think, preflop and flop was standard.

Then 90% of the time I would bet this turn to get value from my straight.

But this time I decided to mix it up and play it tricky to induce a bluff on the river.

I thought it was the way to get max value, because I thought most hands would easily fold on the turn if I bet.

But now, in retrospect, if I know he had a set there I would never give him a free card, because he had at least 20% equity against me and I would defend my straight.

So is this a losing play or you can do it sometimes to induce bluffs from agros?


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mkBISCUIT
Joined: 19.01.2018

The check on the turn is okay in my opinion, the jack card is a awful card for you, as when he 3 bets he holds all the AK, KK, QQ, and maybe AQ combos, yes you have a king blocker. But his 3 bet range from BB crushers your calling range from BNT. If villain bets turn you are calling him down even on a blank river, it is somewhat of a cooler. KcJc maybe a little wide for a call against a reg, but you do have position and the 3 bets was 3.2x i believe.

as for your question with the agrro, it is fine as villain only has a 1/2 pot bet left. but as you can see if the board paired or a spade comes you need to be able to get away from hand... Its a tough fold on river anyway you look at it.


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Mstlc
Joined: 14.03.2009

FYI, this is NL5 not NL2.

I'm not going to go into the pre-flop call. If he's been 3betting you a lot I don't mind calling I guess as your hand has good flop potential, the problem with a hand like KJ is that it's easily dominated in a 3bet pot.

Flop is good.

Turn: I'm not happy with that J to the board but I'm jamming here. If villain is a reg as you say imo he's got very very few AK combo's in his range. He could have AsKs but he should've folded all other AK combo's vs your flop raise. Considering there shouldn't be too many AK combo's in villains range we've almost always still have the best hand on the turn (or we're at least splitting vs Kx hands) AND villain only has about a 56% pot bet behind.


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

Originally posted by Mstlc
FYI, this is NL5 not NL2.

I have fixed that part in the title :f_wink:

Tough to get away with a straight, but most of the time i would go broke on the turn.
You want to protect your hand against a draw. The only logic hand you lose now is A♠:K♠:, but that's also a hand that could shove the flop.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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SamoB25
Joined: 02.10.2009

Just curious - where is the graphical hand overview from? Is this something that Natural8 has out of the box?


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jesusflorestz
Joined: 30.03.2021

Yes Samo, Natural8 gives you the hands in this format and you can download them as images or also as txt.


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SamoB25
Joined: 02.10.2009

Nice! Thanks πŸ‘


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epanat
Joined: 19.03.2021

:f_drink:


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DecMate
Joined: 25.01.2009

I agree with previous comments. Villain can have 2 pair, trips / flush draws that we still want to charge and not give free equity.
KJs is fine to call pre-flop.


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