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clawindsouza
Joined: 08.12.2009

Poker Stars, $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

BTN: $50.90 (101.8 bb)
SB: $50.01 (100 bb)
BB: $132.92 (265.8 bb)
UTG: $83.35 (166.7 bb)
MP: $25.75 (51.5 bb)
Hero (CO): $50.63 (101.3 bb)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 2 A
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.25, BTN calls $1.25, 2 folds

Flop: ($3.25) 2 8 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $2, BTN raises to $5.50, Hero calls $3.50

Turn: ($14.25) K (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $7.50, Hero calls $7.50

River: ($29.25) 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $36.65 and is all-in, Hero calls $36.38 and is all-in

Results:

Spoiler

$102.01 pot ($2.50 rake)
Final Board: 2 8 5 K 8
BTN showed K J and won $99.51 ($48.88 net)
Hero mucked 2 A and lost (-$50.63 net)

Villain was 22/15/4.3 with 8.1% 3bet over 149 hands
Raise cbet - 67% (6 instances)

On the flop I felt he just has air way too often when raising on this board. At best he'd have 67 is what I thought. So called to see what he would do on the turn.

On the turn we did pick up some extra equity and decided to call again and re evaluate on river.

River seemed like a desperate bet since I did not think 8x would bet the turn and my range did look like it had a few 8x too. So decided to call hoping that he'd have some random garbage.

Questions besides knowing how you would play this hand.

1) Is this line better than 3betting OTF?
2) How do we approach this opponent after seeing the results from now on?

Thanks a lot. My graph has been looking a lot better recently thanks to these evaluations. :)

EDIT: Can I c/shove turn? I think I have about 30% equity and could maybe make some better hands fold too.


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Hi,

I´m personally not very big fan calling him down bottom pair. He can still turn his small pp-s into bluffs and win at showdown.
With 8x+ I´m fine taking that line, with worse hands I would likely 3-bet flop 12-13$, since he is not reping almost anything and we can have all our overpairs+sometimes sets.
I´ve not yet seen players 4-betting dry flop, so even if he is floating he would likely just call to take it away on the turn.
Since he makes thin valuebet shove (which imo is fine, since he is trying to represent 76 and you almost never have there better Kx+ (besides some slowplayed sets, aces and some AK combos) then I would likely fold in the future all worse hands besides tp+
If you have your range enough 8x, sets and AK/AA, then you don´t have to worry about making too many correct hero folds.
With your equity c/rai turn seems good option. He should b/f better hands and your hand likely is not that good to c/c him down.

best regards,


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