Hey guys. A friend who normally plays 5-10 around Florida invited me to our measly card room near us in Tallahassee where there isn’t much action for him, but he had an itch to play. I played a little 1/2 and got really stoked on live cash again. I forgot how horrible people are. It was really cool to see limps and then raises to 5 from old men with KK. i messed around for an hour and then decided to jump into the nightly tournament. i bought my seat before i realized they had an addon that made the tournament a 33% rake, which was lame but it’s whatever i guess. these mistakes aren’t too costy since i’m assuming i still have an edge around that or higher in a small field tournament that pays what I feel is too many spots (it was 6 of 38). it’s just likely not to be too much more, but oh well. i recognized regs from another card room i used to frequent in monticello. they were all still just as bad, same tendencies, nearly 2 years later. i’m amazed and completely invigorated/motivated again now that i see how slow of a transition it is from these widely known quick to learn skills like hand selection/position to get to the players in a live game in florida. anyway, onto this hand that was against the only even remotely competent player in the tournament that i played against. he’s like 50 something, doesn’t use his image or anything, he just plays against other old people typically and probably calls down against younger people he assumes to be aggressive. at 1/2 i saw him play tons of hands just over limping and cbetting multilimped pots when ast to act and usually take it down. it happened a few orbits in a row, so i know he’s willing to try taking a pot.

effective stacks against him are about 40bb.
it’s at 50/100
i open QTd mp1 250 and old guy flats button and bb flats. bb is old guy who is folding if he misses all flops. he sees a lot of flops if possible but folds unless he hits in some way.

flop with 800 in the middle and effective stacks now at 37.5bb
KcJs2c

BB checks, I cbet 375. Button flats. BB folds.

(I put button on all sorts of draws, decent top pair or second pairs, and then probably ATo because of how I saw him play)

turn 1150
8h

I think I can check/evaluate because I think he’s more likely to take his free card against a young person he sees as aggro. so if he checks, i can bet all blanks. i think he’s going to bet all pairs when checked to, which sort of just lets me check/fold or check/ bet all blanks and then blank A/9 too.

i also think i can bet three streets if rivers blank out on draws because i’m essentially charging draws (because he calls) and then he folds when he can’t call river. it’s expensive, but it’s also just a value bet overall. i’m mentally burnt at the moment, and haven’t checked overall combos, but i feel like there are more draws then Kings and Jacks.

I decided to once again bet to charge his draws (that are folding blank rivers)
Because I’m treating this as a vbet against draws, I thought around half pot was good because hes not getting a right price when he hits (since I can’t bluff the completed draws really).

I bet 575, he calls.

River, 2200 3h
I go through with my river plan and bet 875. He’s calling Jacks and Kings and folding all of his draws. I don’t think he’s folding anything that calls and 875 if I bet bigger, so I don’t need to spend any more chips following through with the bluff.

stacks behind are 3000 and the pot is 2200. I suppose if he values his tourney life he would fold like QJ/TJ to a shove but I think since most of the folds are draws and i can just function with 2200 after. blinds are quick in this tourney, but they don’t go up for another orbit.

basically, line check. i like my thinking, and i guess the only way i wouldn’t is if the combos of pairs outweighs the draw combos that then miss and fold on river, but at the time i thought more were draws.

results don’t affect me if my logic is sound, and he calls KQo. It’s funny because results sometimes make people feel bad plays are then good when they work out and the guy folds, but I felt good when he called and had KQ because it was in the range i assigned and the hand played out.

what does tpe think?