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It is early in the tournament and so far villian has been active. I am curious what you guys think the optimal line is and your thought process? Thanks.
Merge Network $2,000 Guaranteed Deepstack Freezeout No Limit Hold'em Tournament – t50.00/t100.00 Blinds – 9 players
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter
Hero (BB): t4375.00 43.75 BBs
pokersteelerfan (UTG): t5947.00 59.47 BBs
chunkymonk3y (UTG+1): t5683.00 56.83 BBs
jhndoe (UTG+2): t11069.00 110.69 BBs
IBeatUrHand (MP1): t4000.00 40 BBs
shortmat31 (MP2): t5478.00 54.78 BBs
AKfishAK (CO): t10197.00 101.97 BBs
StevenHood (BTN): t4000.00 40 BBs
musicmorello513 (SB): t1101.00 11.01 BBs
Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with A
K
pokersteelerfan calls t100, 4 folds, AKfishAK raises to t275.00, 2 folds, Hero calls t175, pokersteelerfan calls t175
Flop: (t875) 6
K
9 (3 players)
Hero checks, pokersteelerfan checks, AKfishAK bets t311.00, Hero calls t311, pokersteelerfan folds
Turn: (t1497) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, AKfishAK bets t644.00, Hero raises to t1455.00, AKfishAK calls t811
River: (t4407) 9 (2 players)
Hero?
October 6, 2010
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did you think about a small check raise on the flop?
July 3, 2010
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If he's been really active you can check the river since he'll bet all his air and he's not too likely to call your river bet.
I think you played the hand fine until the Turn. I see no reason to raise the turn — a better line would be to check call the turn and river. If he has a worse K than you, you keep him in the hand and if ur beat your exercising some pot control.
I'm fine with the flat pre oop, especially as there was an utg limp. I also check call the flop as a c/r could look like a draw and you are bloating the pot oop early with tptk, or you are pushing out the hands you are dominating. I think I am probably check calling the turn to then lead a brick on the river and calling a raise, or check calling a flush card. As played I think this is a good spot to check the river to let him bluff as I don't see him calling with a worse hand anyway, 10 10 to QQ will check behind but I think these hands will probably fold to a decent sized bet anyway. I am then calling his river bet as I don't see anypoint in raising it.
October 6, 2010
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running0uts said:
I'm fine with the flat pre oop, especially as there was an utg limp. I also check call the flop as a c/r could look like a draw and you are bloating the pot oop early with tptk, or you are pushing out the hands you are dominating. I think I am probably check calling the turn to then lead a brick on the river and calling a raise, or check calling a flush card. As played I think this is a good spot to check the river to let him bluff as I don't see him calling with a worse hand anyway, 10 10 to QQ will check behind but I think these hands will probably fold to a decent sized bet anyway. I am then calling his river bet as I don't see anypoint in raising it.
I kind of agree Bennymacca because of our stack size (40bbs). I hadn't really paid attention to that and just read that it was early in a deepstack. If we were deeper then I prefer to pot control rather than take the higher variance route by repping a draw. But here, with 40bbs maybe it is good to get it in with tptk and gamble, in which case your c/r flop line may be best.
3 bet pre/get it in.i almost never call oop AK with 40bbs against active big stack who propably wants to isolate the limper.so we 3bet for value.as played c/r flop and double up against his K,draw,PP or what else he wants to go with.your hand is hidden he can't think you have AK.ok maybe sometimes he will fold lower pp but on the other hand flop is draw heavy.nh
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter
pokersteelerfan (UTG): t5947.00 59.47 BBs
chunkymonk3y (UTG+1): t5683.00 56.83 BBs
jhndoe (UTG+2): t11069.00 110.69 BBs
IBeatUrHand (MP1): t4000.00 40 BBs
shortmat31 (MP2): t5478.00 54.78 BBs
AKfishAK (CO): t10197.00 101.97 BBs
StevenHood (BTN): t4000.00 40 BBs
musicmorello513 (SB): t1101.00 11.01 BBs
K
pokersteelerfan calls t100, 4 folds, AKfishAK raises to t275.00, 2 folds, Hero calls t175, pokersteelerfan calls t175
K 
9 (3 players)Hero checks, pokersteelerfan checks, AKfishAK bets t311.00, Hero raises to t1250, pokersteelerfan folds, AKfishAK calls t939
(2 players)Hero bets T2850 and is all in
What do you guys make of villian only raising to 275 with an UTG limper? What is your initial ranging with that bet?
Its a really small raise im putting him on AA or KK.
I think it's pretty hard to narrow his range based on his sizing here, but if anything I'd say it looks like he wants action. The trouble is that we don't know how he plays, maybe this is his standard raise size and hasn't adjusted for the limper, or he thinks he can iso with this sizing. It could even be that he likes his hand enough to raise but not enough to make it any bigger than that. So I would say that it is suspicious but that without a read on what it means I wouldn't be too confident in narrowing his range.
Villian had AA. I think a lot of people are transparent with their betting. I remember thinking instantly preflop it could potentially be AA and I should be cautious. I however couldn't help myself get it in after flopping so well. Whoops!
I never raise the turn. There is no reason in raising here or at the river because thre are no hands he calls with that are worse than ours and the hands he calls with AA KK and AK , we chop one of them.
Van H3Lzing said:
I never raise the turn. There is no reason in raising here or at the river because thre are no hands he calls with that are worse than ours and the hands he calls with AA KK and AK , we chop one of them.
Yeah. I had a spew moment. Just decided to be an idiot and jam river. One of those days where I didn't really care and just said **** it. HAHA. Should not be playing on those days.
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