Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 Pot Limit Omaha Cash, 6 Players
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SB: $82.78 (82.8 bb)
Hero (BB): $239.18 (239.2 bb)
UTG: $100 (100 bb)
MP: $39.28 (39.3 bb)
CO: $35.50 (35.5 bb)
BTN: $187.72 (187.7 bb)
Preflop: Hero is BB with T♣: J♥: K♣: A♦:
UTG raises to $3.50, MP folds, CO calls $3.50, 2 folds, Hero calls $2.50
Flop: ($11) Q♠: 8♣: 5♥: (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks, CO checks
Turn: ($11) T♥: (3 players)
Hero bets $10, UTG calls $10, CO folds
River: ($31) J♦: (2 players)
Hero bets $10, UTG raises to $35.50, Hero calls $25.50
UTG 36/30, 280 hands. Weak reg or regfish - not sure which. Ag 2.5.
CO 52/13 - rec
Flat pre to keep in recreational. Would you ever 3b this vs utg range (14% open from UTG)?
1. Do you like semibluffing this turn or will we just get too many calls?
2. I've been talking to colleague about river block bets recently and fact that I struggle to employ them in my strat. Here I couldn't decide whether to check to x/r or bet ~2/3pot. I decided that most of his turn calling range has at least some SDV on this runnout and that he doesn't bet much w/c/t. However if we bet big on this river it's pretty hard for him to call with worse than str8. I decided to block bet here to maximise chance of getting crying call from some hands and allow villain to maybe bluff raise, since our hand looks a lot like 2p/set when we choose this sizing.
So, I would love thoughts on this river. What other hands could we add to our thin value betting range (if any)? What hands do we block/bet fold here, for example?
3. When villain raises I think he should always have the same hand as us or a bluff. For this reason, I just called to avoid situation where we chop pot and pay more rake. I assume that he can't raise/call any hands other than the nuts - is that a fair assumption? Am I overthinking things and we should always x/pot the nuts regardless of whether villain can r/c worse?
4. Results:
Spoiler
$102 pot ($2.50 rake)
Final Board: Q♠: 8♣: 5♥: T♥: J♦:
Hero showed T♣: J♥: K♣: A♦: and won $99.50 ($50.50 net)
UTG showed K♠: 4♥: J♣: K♥: and lost (-$49 net)
Do you like villain's river raise? What if we had bet 2/3 pot?
Thanks