NL100 88 overpair

Hey,

The method i would use to determine my play here is option elimination.

folding: we have decent equity vs anything and can quite easily have the best hand. Folding is out of question for me.

calling: our hand looks very weak if we call and is very vulnerable. Also, there aren't many runouts where I would feel comfortable calling down on. Hence, calling is out of question.

that leaves us with raising: you have a gutshot and two set outs, you have showdown value and fold equity. For those reasons, i think this makes a good candidate for bluff raising the flop with the plan of occasionally getting to showdown by calling one more bet.

Originally posted by Shevtshenko
Hey,

The method i would use to determine my play here is option elimination.

folding: we have decent equity vs anything and can quite easily have the best hand. Folding is out of question for me.

calling: our hand looks very weak if we call and is very vulnerable. Also, there aren't many runouts where I would feel comfortable calling down on. Hence, calling is out of question.

that leaves us with raising: you have a gutshot and two set outs, you have showdown value and fold equity. For those reasons, i think this makes a good candidate for bluff raising the flop with the plan of occasionally getting to showdown by calling one more bet.

Yeah, it's what I did, and the 2nd playerd reraised me, wich was kind of weird, but I said to myself that I bluffraised in the firs place and let the hand go.

About the raising on this board vs 2 ppl, what hands do I expect the first oponent to bet/fold?

Start by writing down the combos that he cbets with and then take a look at which of those combos fold against your line. You're a smart guy, you don't need or want me to spoon feed this to you. It's better if you do it yourself, that way you can also figure out if the bluff raise is showing a profit or not.

Just to expand a little. He can fold some very strong hands or he can fold barely any hands. Both of which i'm fine with this hand actually

Well, I asked because given his small cbet and board texture I don't think he is betting alot here, thus when he bets I expect him to have overpairs and some sort of combo draws, and dont think he is foldind much.

I've put this in Equilab and given an open range of about 25%, I may have about 50% FE on this board, much more the I thought.