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Two pair vs agressive opponent

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mjez1
Joined: 29.06.2015

PokerStars, Hold'em No Limit - $0.02/$0.05 - 6 players
Hand delivered by Upswing Poker

UTG (Hero): $6.29 (126 bb)
MP: $2.83 (57 bb)
CO: $5.05 (101 bb)
BU: $6.05 (121 bb)
SB: $5.01 (100 bb)
BB: $5.37 (107 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.07) Hero is UTG with 9 A
Hero raises to $0.15, 3 players fold, SB calls $0.13, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.35) 4 A 9 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.15, SB calls $0.15

Turn: ($0.65) J (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.41, SB raises to $1.85, Hero ??

Would you call, would you fold? From my experience on NL5, this is most of the time set or two pairs.
Or would fold be too nitty?


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Pokamon
Joined: 15.04.2006

when you think about folding A9s in this spot, you need to have very strong conviction, that noone is ever bluffing here.

you block a lot of value combos like 99, AJ, J9s. so the likelyhood of catching some bluffs goes up tremendously.

when folding, you also have to consider, that you open yourself up of being exploited left and right,

as you will be overfolding a lot. dont get me wrong, it is ok to overfold. but folding ATs here, or A9s for two pairs is a different story.


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mjez1
Joined: 29.06.2015

The hand continued...

Turn: ($0.65) J (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.41, SB raises to $1.85, Hero calls $1.44

River: ($4.35) 2 (2 players)
SB bets $2.86 (all-in), Hero ??


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LMcrow
Joined: 15.08.2006

if you call the turn i guess snapcall on this river. Just because we block the board doesent mean villian only bluffraises here, its an ugly spot and to avoid this hero could check the turn sometimes since we block so much and go for a more passive line on the turn.

I guess as played the turn depends on villain if we call or overfold.

I dont think overfolding on mircrostakes is ever a mistake, thats just because
1. 90 % of playerpool doesent know how to exploit that or they dont know at all what to do they just guess
2. they dont pay much attention on how much hero folds anyway

opening up to get exploited, i dont think that it matters at NL5 at all. Hero could just play straight forward and overfold against c/r on the turn almost blind.


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Tomaloc
Joined: 17.01.2011

folding this would be an enormous deviation from theory.
i understand that it's possible that, in micros practice, stacking off might even be slightly losing, but i wouldn't think too much about it. just give them their cooler, and see you next time.


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

Without reads I would stack off on the turn. You beat all 2 pair combinations except AJ. With 2 blockers for a set it's less likely villain has 1 and JJ would most likely 3betting pre-flop.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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ghaleon
Joined: 17.10.2007

What type of bluffs we expect to see here? QTs floating flop or 9Ts turning hand into bluff?

I would imagine spot to be heavily underbluffed especially versus UTG. But we might also beat portion of villain value range though I don't think he should really raise anything weaker for value versus uncapped range.


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