10 Responses to “FTP $11 2-day MTT Hand History Review (Part 3)”

  2. StrugLife

    Why not re-raise on the dry flop with T9o? Seems like there’s too many bad cards on the turn, no? Also your re-raise looks very bluffy doesn’t it?

  4. theginger45

    Hey, I’m not sure which medium pocket pair hand you’re talking about specifically, but the KQo hand I think is probably closer to a 3bet/call than it is a flat. I don’t particularly like my flat, in retrospect.

    In general, though, there are many spots on shorter stacks where I might choose to 3bet a middle pair to get it in versus an aggressive player but flat KQo because it plays better on many flops despite not always being strong enough to get it in preflop. I may also choose to flat middle pairs when deepstacked because it’s much harder to get it in good, while KQo plays reasonably well as a 3bet bluff with deep stacks because of its blocker value.

  5. theginger45

    Hey again, I think raising is a valid option with the T9, but in this instance I preferred calling. There aren’t actually many bad cards at all on the turn – the villain’s range is wide enough that there’s literally no turn card on which I’m folding to a second barrel. There’s no individual card that helps his range enough to make it possible to fold a 9 on the turn. He’s quite tight over a good sample of hands, but he still has 22% button PFR.

    Check-raising on the flop might look bluffy to some extent, but the problem is that when the villain’s range is wide, there’s just not many ways he can play back at it if he thinks it is bluffy. There are almost no draws on that board that he can rebluff with, and if he wants to 3bet versus our raise he basically has to shove, given the stack sizes. He’s unlikely to be floating random overcard hands versus our check-raise given the fact that he’s fairly tight and not a tricky player, so the only hands we might get extra value from are the small number of worse 9x hands in his range, and pocket pair hands between 55-88, many of which would be likely to fold to a turn bet on most turns anyway.

    I suppose what I’m saying is that I believe there’s more value in representing a weaker range by check-calling that flop and check-calling all turn cards to exploit his wide button range, than there is in check-raising to try to extract a tiny bit more value from the small number of second-best value hands he can have in this spot. Hope that makes sense.

  7. StrugLife

    Yeah I thought a 3B/Call would have been better.

    I’m not talking about a medium PP hand, sorry I should have been a bit more specific. While your talking about that hand you were talking about how you would be 3bing a medium PP in that spot pre.

  10. Mr. Marley

    Great series Sir!

    Have you considered donking the 36Q flop with the intention of calling a shove on the KQ hand?
    about 27:00

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