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zetozinho
Joined: 18.06.2017


Villain is unknown, but seems fishy.
I open raise from the CO with the goods.

Flop comes KQ5r, and he donks. I think this a mandatory flop raise. The board is very favorable for my range and I will raise him wide in this spot.

Turn brings a T and I decided to pot control. The reason I decided to check was because T completes hands like KT, QT, TT that now beat my overpair. I can have those hands myself and I would bet them for sure.
This seemed to be a good pot control spot because I don't fear any river card besides 9.

River comes the 9... and he leads 1/2. I'm blocking missed flushdraws. I also block AJ, but I think he's going to show up with JT, J9 etc sometimes. I can have a bunch of str8, 2 pair/sets on this runout, so I decided to fold AA. Turn check back is what makes me wonder if AA isn't too strong in my range to justify a river fold.
Ideas?


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

Flop raising or calling are both fine I think. If you think you can get value of Kx or even Qx raising is most likely better, but if he has a weak draw or something he will most likely fold. Turn I would most likely Cbet again for thin value against a weaker player and fold on a raise. River is a bad card for you and he can indeed play 2 pair+ like this and iis folding fine.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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LeMahdi
Joined: 10.02.2019

When you say "block" , what exactly do you mean by that?

On the other hand, your line is fine to me. In such situations where I have AA and the board is scary OTF, I raise much bigger to either force the villain to fold. If he calls , I can put him on super strong hands. However, I have an ideology in which I prefer to win small pots rather than lose/fold when pots are bigger like your example.


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PecPokerNL98
Joined: 04.07.2016

an J is often in his range here JJ or AJ but you blocking some of his combos he can have lots of Kx and Qx mayby 99 or TT and goes for a rabbit hunt iff its a fish it can be like the so good fold he beat you here more then you think


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EmiyaKiritsugu
Joined: 13.08.2013

Originally posted by zetozinho
Turn brings a T and I decided to pot control. The reason I decided to check was because T completes hands like KT, QT, TT that now beat my overpair. I can have those hands myself and I would bet them for sure.

Very nitty. AA is too strong hand to not bet turn and barrel again on blank river card. Why he would check turn if his hand improved to twopairs/straight? He would still bet most likely, and in case when you get check/raised I dont see any problem with folding this.


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We can bet/fold the turn for value vs AT Kx Qx which allows us to keep control of the pot on the river


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PecPokerNL98
Joined: 04.07.2016

Originally posted by Fvendal
We can bet/fold the turn for value vs AT Kx Qx which allows us to keep control of the pot on the river.

i agree with this


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LMcrow
Joined: 15.08.2006

i agree also with betting the Turn. i think on average you will miss a lot of value not betting the turn against worse hands. Also you give away information(about not betting) that you dont like the turn a lot of times. And he can and will sometimes turn his hand into a bluff on the river.


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