Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

This is a live, 9 handed private game in my hometown. The makeup of the game is comprised of successful businessmen mainly, and three younger kids (myself included), one of whom is a WPT winner and v. strong player.

The cap is 5k in the game and it's just warming up.



Hand 1:
Effective stacks are 5k.
A new player I haven't met before shows up in the game and he has raised two hands preflop in the first four hands he's played. One limper, he makes it 150 in the cutoff I make it 475 on the button with K9dd. Everyone else folds and he calls OOP.
Flop is 835 two diamonds. He leads for 600. At this point, what is my best line for the rest of the hand? It seems to me like he has a mid-high pocket pair and I don't know much about his capabilities as a player but neither does he of my game so I assume I'd have some FE vs. his range.
Who calls and why, and who raises and why?


Hand 2: Effective stacks are 5k
MP raises preflop to 125 cutoff calls I call on button with 34dd, the SB who is the host of the game and a fairly decent player calls. Flop comes A37 two spades, with the As.
The flop chks around. Turn is a 4, non spade. I make two pair. The small blind leads out for 300.

Are people raising here, if so, to how much? I thought he might have checked an ace on the flop or is now betting a spade draw.

I make it 900 to go. He thinks for a while and calls. This is when it gets interesting.

River is a 3 of spades, completing the flush, giving me a house. He leads out for 1600.

I have about 4k left. What is my action?

Any feedback is welcome,
dlpnyc21

Re: Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

what is the blind structure for this game? Just curious.

Hand one: This is the fourth or fifth hand you have seen this guy play and you decide to repop him with K 9? Pretty questionable. I just call on the flop because I have no clue how this guy plays or if he is capable of laying down an overpair. If checked to on the turn I check behind unless I hit my flush. If bet into on the turn I fold unless I hit a king or he bet too small to price me out of the flush draw.

Hand 2: All you can eat. I highly doubt he flopped or turned a set with this action. Looks like a flush to me.

Re: Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

wtf, interesting?

1. PUSH 2. PUSH

Re: Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

hand # 1: This is close. The pot odds would seem to dictate a call of the flop-bet (you're getting better than 2:1, and you're only 3:1 to make the flush by the river). If a diamond does not hit the turn, or if the turn perhaps gives villain an even stronger hand, then you can re-evaluate what to do at that time.

Hand # 2: From your description, there is almost no way you are up against a better full-house. For me, this is at least a call.


TK

Re: Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

Blinds are 10-25, typical opening raise with no limpers is 125 or 150. I really don't think either hand is clear, I think hand 2 is between call/shove, and hand 2 is between call/raise (shove would be a fairly large overbet)

Re: Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

You say I'm not up against a house, well then, shouldn't I raise the river?

Re: Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

The only reason I don't raise the river is because there is only one way you get called -- by a better hand. I believe you are good 98% of the time.... poker has a funny way of showing us that last 2%.

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[ QUOTE ]
The only reason I don't raise the river is because there is only one way you get called -- by a better hand. I believe you are good 98% of the time.... poker has a funny way of showing us that last 2%.

[/ QUOTE ] He will only get called 2% of the time. Damn. He should've had something else so he could bluff.

Re: Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

Thinkards,

are you on crack? you're trying to decide between calling & FOLDING on hand 1??!?!??

and hand 2 the river made a flush...you think he's folding a flush to a raise? stop giving other people credit for being good at poker. when you get fullhouses raise and let them make bad calls.

Re: Two hands from LIVE 5k max-buy in private home game
 

Hand 1 I call for deception..hopefully a diamond or K falls on the turn..this does not mean I go nuts with it unless I hit the ace of diamonds and board does not pair
Hand 2...RAISE