Live 3/6: How Many Bets Did I Spew?

[itslog1]

hi all, i'm a bit new to lhe, and i was wondering how badly i played this hand.

live 3/6 home game, 9 handed

folds to hijack who raises

i 3bet with 44 otb (??)

hj caps, i call

flop comes A/K/rag, he checks i check

turn=4.

he bets, i raise, he 3bets, i cap (??)

river is a rag, he bets i call (??)

the only read i have here is that this player isn't one to spew chips. i detect a slowplay.

[Hobbs.]

his flop check is suspicious and thus more weight should be given to him having an overset on the turn so I think you can probably just call his 3-bet and call a river. Actually looking at it, it appears you guys play with a cap HU so capping isn't that bad as he can't 5bet.

I think this hand was pretty well played for somebody new to limit though.

[_TKO_]

The slowplay could be any of AK, AA, or KK. If he's not spewing, I don't raise the river. I like how you played this hand.

[itslog1]

ty, good analysis

but, how much of it is standard?

preflop standard? i understand if it's good for shania but i'd like to know if this is the standard line?

flop check? should i try to get an underpair to fold?

turn raise i assume is standard but what about a cap if he's likely to be slowplaying?

[damaniac]

Preflop is an "it depends". Usually I'd fold, but you can 3-bet iso a player like this in a number of conditions. Among them I'd think would be if he tends to fold easily to aggression with more marginal hands (he almost always has 2 overcards so if he folds the flop on a lot of misses you will show a nice profit) or if he plays very predictably postflop (ie you can get in extra value bets when ahead, avoid folding when your hand is good, and avoid spewing bets when he does pair up as much as possible). Also you want the blinds to not to be very loose.

He's probably not check/folding an underpair, the board is nasty for one, but he's probably going to at least bet/fold, your range has a fair amount of non-A/non-K underpairs. Usually when people cap they're leading, the check is more apt to mean a monster IMO (although given the steal-y nature of this, he could just be capping light and playing strangely).

I still cap the turn, 6 combos of AA/KK vs. 9 of AK (er, is that right? that seems funny) and he could well play AQ or something like this sometimes. Fine to cool it on the river too.

[n.s.]

The flop check certainly reeks of a monster, but he could just as easily play this way with AK as AA or KK. There are 9 combos of AK and 6 of AA/KK, so I think it's safe to cap his 3-bet. When he doesn't slow down on the river though, I like your call.