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A7o in BB on 443 against CO openraise

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ZeroDegrees
Joined: 03.06.2008

I decided to call down this hand. Actually thought I was ahead of his range and was even thinking about check raising for value on flop or turn. I have no reads on the CO and just 50 hands. His stats were then 33/27/13 and he had open raised from the CO 17%. Learning to use the equilator and put in 17% range and was given an equity of 42% preflop and 48% on the flop. So I learned that I overestimated my hand strength. However, it seems too weak to just call preflop and fold on flop. It seems weak to fold the turn too and brilliant checkraise bluffs on turn or river aren't reward at this limit. So, to conclude,

1. I think calling down is best here ( maybe the queen on the river makes it a fold, but I never fold the river that much, even when I know I should, I prefer the loss of a big bet)

2. Or shall I peal the flop and fold the turn?

Thanks

Edit: the hand:

IPoker, $0.25/$0.50 Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Preflop: Hero is BB with A 7
2 folds, CO raises, 2 folds, Hero calls

Flop: (4.4 SB) 4 3 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Hero calls

Turn: (3.2 BB) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Hero calls

River: (5.2 BB) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Hero calls


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Dawnfall26
Joined: 30.07.2008

Hi!

Preflop I like call the most. These hands are usually better to be involved in smaller pots OOP even if you raise a lot on BB.

Flop raise for value wouldnt be the best since vs CO you should not be a favoruite and even if you are its only slightly and you preffer to have a bit more bluffcatchers in such spots as I assume you will peal relativelly light here and most of these hands you will fold on turn. So without enough bluffcatchers and some slowplays oponents will have a very easy turn play vs you....so call it is for me 100% of the time with this hand

If you had AK,AQ,maybe AJ here you can totally argue a c/r and then vbet all the way for thin value but even then just c/c is fine.

Turn 9 is not the best card but it certainly isnt the worst.Since I assume most people would double barrell here,think about how many hands out of COs range you still beat. Most Kx,Qx,JT,J8x,T8s,some 67s,A2,A4,A5,A6. Actually at this point Im quite determined to calldown regardless of rivercard when I play unknown oponent. Even the worse river K makes me want to call as we still beat unpaired undercards,split Ax and also many ppl wouldnt valuebet very light on river K or Q,therefore % of bluffs gets higher.

I suggest more equity analysis like this as Ahigh is one of the most important topics when reaching higher stakes


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