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PhantomAce
Joined: 15.01.2015

Hi. Just had an interesting hand in which on the river, villain shoved all in. I had a full house so called and won. But looking back over the hand, I was thinking, if I was the villain, how would I have played his hand?

Pokerstars NL2 zoom 9 handed.

Hero UTG ($1.93)
UTG+1 ($4.78)
Villain HJ ($1.37)

Hero raises 3BB (0.6)with Ah6h
UTG+1 calls
Fold
Fold
Villain re-raises to 5 BB (0.10)
Folds round to Hero. Hero calls 0.4. UTG+1 calls 0.4

Flop ($0.33) As 6s 8d
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, Villian checks.

Turn ($0.33) Ad
Hero bets 0.16, UTG+1 folds, Villain calls

River ($0.65) 9s
Hero bets 0.41, Villain bets $1.11 and is all in. Hero calls.

Showdown ($2.87)
Hero shows A6 for a Full house (AAA66)
Villain shows AKs for 3 of a Kind (Aces) with King kicker.

If villain had reraised pre flop higher and not given me such good odds to call, I would have folded. If he CBet the flop, I would have put him on a strong hand and would have checked the turn.

Do you think Villain played badly? How would you have played?


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

MW with 2p I would lead on flop.
Villain also played it bad. He should bet the flop too.


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

More important question is did you play badly. The answer is yes.
First let me comment on your hand format. It is shit. Use a converter. If you played this hand on Unibet or somewhere else where tracking is not possible I might forgive you :)

EDIT: I see you played this at stars.. So I don't forgive you :)

To the hand:
1. you should be playing with 100bb stack so use auto top-up.
2. A6s is a bit too loose open from UTG. As played calling villains small 3bet is ok.
3. On the flop you are playing multiway and hit 2pair, you have to bet this yourself.

And yes it was very stupid of villain to shove with only trips when flush completed. He should have played this much more aggressively.


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PhantomAce
Joined: 15.01.2015

Originally posted by la55i
Use a converter. If you played this hand on Unibet or somewhere else where tracking is not possible I might forgive you :)

EDIT: I see you played this at stars.. So I don't forgive you :)

3. On the flop you are playing multiway and hit 2pair, you have to bet this yourself.

Using a converter is way beyond my knowhow :)

Should I not be checking to the preflop aggressor on the flop?


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

Villain should already 3bet a lot bigger to 24c or so, but a converter would be nice.
You can use a hand converter like weaktight for example.

Anyway I don’t think it’s too bad to check to the original raiser, but there is indeed a good chance he will check behind against 2 players and then it could end ugly if a 3th :spade: comes up the turn. The rest seems pretty standard of both sides after the flop action, but I’m off course a cash game fish :f_wink:

Cheers,
SDK1987


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la55i
Joined: 27.01.2013

Okay so I assume you are not using any tracking software. I don't know how to copy the hand history from the pokerstars client so I hope someone can help you with that. I tried to get one hand to my e-mail but wasn't able to convert that to a clear format... You can recreate hands with this converter: http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/, those will look a bit cleaner.. :)

Should I not be checking to the preflop aggressor on the flop?

When you are playing multiway and you hit on the flop it is better to bet yourself. By checking we risk that everyone else checks too. We don't want to give free cards when there is a possible flush draw and we want to get the max value out of villains. In MW pots ppl tend to check behind a lot as preflop aggressor.


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nitrol
Joined: 24.07.2010

Originally posted by PhantomAce

Should I not be checking to the preflop aggressor on the flop?

You have a hand and you want to make everyone pay. The problem with checking is villains can check too and will get a free card.


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