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Two pairs in EG tournament.

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PokerGenesis
Joined: 03.06.2015

A leak that I have is the highest AF and I paid dearly in that hand for it. There aren't villains informations. How would you play this river?

PokerStars - 10/20 Ante 3 NL - Holdem - 45 players - $1.00
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 1,497
BTN: 1,487
SB: 1,477
BB: 1,437
UTG: 1,497
UTG+1: 1,437
MP: 1,497
Hero (MP+1): 1,497
MP+2: 1,674

9 players post ante of 3, SB posts SB 10, BB posts BB 20

Pre Flop: (pot: 57) Hero has A♦ T♦

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 60, fold, CO calls 60, fold, fold, BB calls 40

Flop: (217, 3 players) 9♠ A♠ 2♦
BB checks, Hero bets 76, CO calls 76, BB calls 76

Turn: (445, 3 players) T♣
BB checks, Hero bets 223, CO calls 223, BB calls 223

River: (1,114, 3 players) Q♦
BB checks, Hero ???

Spoiler

River: (1,114, 3 players) Q♦
BB checks, Hero bets 1,135 and is all-in, CO calls 1,135 and is all-in, fold

Hero shows A♦ T♦ (Two Pair, Aces and Tens)

CO shows A♥ Q♥ (Two Pair, Aces and Queens)

CO wins 3,384

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ghaleon
Joined: 17.10.2007

Bet turn bigger like 330 to get SPR 1 on river by just one player calling and to protect your hand more. But line itself was good so well played.

On river you lose to AQ, KsJs and Js9s. Sets should have raised fop or turn most of time. But I would expect to get called by enough weaker hands to make river shove +EV.


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SDK1987
Joined: 12.11.2008

I have moved your hand to our hand discussion forum. There fits it better.

I would bet the flop already more like 120 multi way. Especially in a micro tournement you get still enough value and than you get it easier on the river as well. Especially if you deal with weaker players.

Cheers,
SDK1987


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PokerGenesis
Joined: 03.06.2015

Hi,
First of all, it's very good get feedback in our complicated hands. On flop I prefer bet low to mix with my bluff e semi bluff range, in my opinion this balances my ranges. Second barrel seems me an very easy value bet, and the suggestion of a higher size is studyble. Then on river, I don't know if I have value to bet or play a check/call.
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ghaleon
Joined: 17.10.2007

Flop cbet size is fine. This is also not such a strong holding overall (considering our position) that I would necessarily increase sizing for exploitative reasons.

On turn I would definitely go bigger. When you get called by two players your range should mainly be strong draws and some AQ+ for value. Though AQ itself is on thin side. Especially on small stake games people are quite often playing straightforward so if they had two pair+ on flop they would raise most of time. Meaning AQ is really often still good. Common mistake is calling too much with draws or Ax in these spots. With bigger sizing you allow that to happen as your range should be very value heavy. With half pot calling e.g. mediocre flush draw is not necessarily even bad. Plus taking pot down here on such board 3way is really not such bad deal.

CO is rarely going to try bluffing river versus two players so by checking what tend to happen is that CO check most weaker hands and value bets probably all better ones. So to me x-c is worst play without some specific reads.


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