Semi-bluff shav on turn

Bruenorx

Joined: 15.09.2014

15.12.2018, 02:46 0

Hi,

another hand from 2.20$ tournament today. This one is a bit on looser side but I had a big stack and wanted to try this new player in a new table. So I 3-bet preflop - maybe a bit smaller but it should be enough for some kind of bluff - yea I know it should be bigger because I will play OOP. But I feel like change sizings a bit sometimes can be good, could do same with AA or KK sometimes. Board with A high and backdoor flush could be good to continue with c-bet so I go for it and try one more shot. Call. Turn is nice we got flush draw. So I think - should I semi-bluff or just let it go. I feel like continue with agression is better, because there is already a lot in pot. So I go for it. And lucky river saves the day ♦. But would you expect him to call with what he had?!?! Do you think my line makes sense, or it is just stupid and I should not do things like that?

PokerStars - 1250/2500 Ante 200 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP+1: 73.75 BB (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 6)
MP+2: 104.51 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: 50.00, Hands: 4)
CO: 32.99 BB (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
BTN: 18.24 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
Hero (SB): 62.75 BB
BB: 17.73 BB (VPIP: 12.50, PFR: 6.25, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 16)
UTG: 45.04 BB (VPIP: 20.22, PFR: 13.07, 3Bet Preflop: 4.11, Hands: 179)
UTG+1: 43.22 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
MP: 10.97 BB (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 25.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)

9 players post ante of 0.08 BB, Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.22 BB) Hero has T♣ K♣

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, CO raises to 2 BB, fold, Hero raises to 5.4 BB, fold, CO calls 3.4 BB

Flop: (12.52 BB, 2 players) A♣ 7♦ 5♥
Hero bets 7 BB, CO calls 7 BB

Turn: (26.52 BB, 2 players) 8♣
Hero bets 50.27 BB and is all-in, CO calls 20.51 BB and is all-in

River: (67.54 BB, 2 players) T♦

Spoiler

Hero shows T♣ K♣ (One Pair, Tens)
(Pre 61%, Flop 26%, Turn 34%)
CO shows 7♥ 6♥ (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 39%, Flop 74%, Turn 66%)
Hero wins 67.54 BB

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SDK1987

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Joined: 12.11.2008

Posts: 43,860

15.12.2018, 08:02 0

I'm no fan for fancy plays in a micro tournament and it's his first raise as well.
If I would 3bet I would make it at least 6bb out of position. Otherwise he get's decent odds to defend in position, but most of the time I would just call to keep the pot small.
You could try to represent an ace on the flop with your bet and if you 3bet pre-flop more you can get it in easier on the turn against him. Off course it's always to represent something if you deal with a player that doesn't like to fold and that could happen often in a $2,20 tournament I think and that makes it tricky to barrel the flop and turn with only K high and a backdoor flush draw.

Cheers,
SDK1987

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maniac

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Joined: 29.03.2006

Posts: 4,474

16.12.2018, 00:26 0

how do you think about villains play ?

greets

maniac

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Bruenorx

Joined: 15.09.2014

Posts: 54

16.12.2018, 02:14 0

Well from his perspective he needs like 30% of equity to call on turn, so even though he is in a bad shape against any A which I represent (maybe something like A8s or A5s or 88 i can represent as well), and also against all KK or QQ (which I wouldn't play like that but some fishes do) he still has quite some equity against these kind of hands. If you try it in equilab and I made my range simple like that QQ+,88,A2s+,AQo+ he has 26%. And if you add some bluffs and semi-bluffs like I had call on turn is not bad I think, but preflop call is not great with so shallow stack I think and flop call is bad in my opinion. Also there is not so many better turn cards for him then 8 (just 7 or 6) and some hearts would be equal to 8 or maybe a bit worse (still could have something like Ax of hearts), so it make kind of sense to make turn call when you did flop call.

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