bit of a weird valuespot HU
 

i raise KK otb. bad passive fish station calls. flop AT6 two hearts. i check he checks. turn 7o. he pots i call. river som complete blank, 6 perhaps. he checks. do i have a valuebet?

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stacks ~$1,000

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I think I check.

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i dont care. i care about WHY.

btw maybe i should have described him beter. hes not a compulsive checkcaller. he does bluff occasionally and he does bet for value. hes just generally terrible and not aggressive enough and way too loose OOP.

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If hes passive id be really afraid of the turn pot on a meaningless card. I vote check.

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range is prob really polarized


action is messed up btw. positions keep changing

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i'd bet something retarded like 1/4 pot, he's not folding a pair and he's probably never bluff raising either

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yes, bet against a T and lower pocket pair. if he had an ace, he'd often either reraise preflop, bet the flop, or bet the river. the fact that he did none of these things makes me think you're good often enough to have a value bet against a loose fish.

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Even if hes a fish he probably isnt calling with worse hands often enough to make a bet profitable. Maaaaaaybe if u bet something really small.

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i'd bet something retarded like 1/4 pot, he's not folding a pair and he's probably never bluff raising either

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Yes, agree 100%.

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range is prob really polarized



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wtf why do people love to say this so much... his range is not polarized.

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wtf why do people love to say this so much... his range is not polarized.

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I kinda agree vill's range is pretty polarized between bluffs/s-bluffs and Ax. Potting a marginal hand like Tx on the turn doesn't make sense and probably nothing a passive player would do.

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wtf why do people love to say this so much... his range is not polarized.

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I kinda agree vill's range is pretty polarized between bluffs/s-bluffs and Ax. Potting a marginal hand like Tx on the turn doesn't make sense and probably nothing a passive player would do.

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You'd be surprised at the random stuff bad players do HU. I def bet this river, probably like 3/5 pot, he'll call with Ts a lot, and even some worse pairs. He'll have an A sometimes but not enough to really be concerned.

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range is prob really polarized



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wtf why do people love to say this so much... his range is not polarized.

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I kinda agree vill's range is pretty polarized between bluffs/s-bluffs and Ax. Potting a marginal hand like Tx on the turn doesn't make sense and probably nothing a passive player would do.

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disagree strongly. i dont know what else to say really than this has not been my experience at all.

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I think villain has air very often here. I think checking is best because the way he played the hand seems more like Ax or air than Tx imo. If he's loose enough to call down with a pair less than T then sure, you can v-bet.

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I kinda agree vill's range is pretty polarized between bluffs/s-bluffs and Ax. Potting a marginal hand like Tx on the turn doesn't make sense and probably nothing a passive player would do.

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You'd be surprised at the random stuff bad players do HU. I def bet this river, probably like 3/5 pot, he'll call with Ts a lot, and even some worse pairs. He'll have an A sometimes but not enough to really be concerned.

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Yeah, but to me it seems like this random stuff is most likely made by air rather than Tx. If we think he calls down with less than Tx then it's an obv v-bet.

My hu experience is limited though so I might not at all understand the problem here.

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he's not 'bluffing'. he's 'betting because he has a pair'. and on the river he wont be 'snapping off a bluff' he'll be 'calling because he has a pair'. stop trying to think like fish, you guys arent good at it.

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pretty standard b/f, i dont think it's close esp against a "bad passive fish station"

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and people who are saying range is "polarized" between aces/bluffs dont play HU much

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he's not 'bluffing'. he's 'betting because he has a pair'. and on the river he wont be 'snapping off a bluff' he'll be 'calling because he has a pair'

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don't agree with TWP often, but this is bang on.

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i'd bet something retarded like 1/4 pot, he's not folding a pair and he's probably never bluff raising either

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wtf why do people love to say this so much... his range is not polarized.

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I kinda agree vill's range is pretty polarized between bluffs/s-bluffs and Ax. Potting a marginal hand like Tx on the turn doesn't make sense and probably nothing a passive player would do.

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disagree strongly. i dont know what else to say really than this has not been my experience at all.

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yea, i am with bigt here. Are you guys being serious? The fish is potting an A, a T, a mid pp, and air after you check the flop. Thats not a polarized range.

Its the kind of stuff that they do.

As the hand was played, i would def bet 1/3-1/2 pot on the river and expect him to call with a T a fair amount of time.

I also expect to valuetown myself a bit, but not often enough for a check to be better than a bet.

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wtf why do people love to say this so much... his range is not polarized.

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LOL.

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makes it sound like i know what I'm talking about ldo


info >> thin value here

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polarized

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merged

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anyway, betting 1/4 is just dumb, if you guys insist he has a T/pp a lot he'll call a lot more then 1/4 pot with similar frequencies. Saying he'll never bluff raise is dumb too.

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anyway, betting 1/4 is just dumb, if you guys insist he has a T/pp a lot he'll call a lot more then 1/4 pot with similar frequencies. Saying he'll never bluff raise is dumb too.

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yea i'm not sure why we'd be betting 1/4 of the pot. he's not folding a pair to anything < PSB so we might as well try to squeeze all the value out of him that we can

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If it's on UB (or maybe FTP) pot it. If it's on a site with no pot button, bet a bit over half pot, I'd say. 1/4 seems like you're losing a lot of value to me.

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yeah gd point, I'm used to playing on sites w/o a bet pot btn. If this is on ft, def value bet.

Doesn't mean we should pot mash though

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I think you get looked up often enough by a ten for this to be profitable, its also good for meta.

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I bet this 100% of the time, if I see he c/c's a weak ace in that spot I adjust my value betting range in other hands

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he's not 'bluffing'. he's 'betting because he has a pair'. and on the river he wont be 'snapping off a bluff' he'll be 'calling because he has a pair'. stop trying to think like fish, you guys arent good at it.

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really good point. just get one level above these guys and play accordingly. playing live has really helped me with this because the fish talk out loud about everything they do and i can just sit and listen and learn.

probably slightly more Ax than Tx hands in his range but enough other pairs (7x/88/etc) that we are good above the breakeven 50% point. i don't think this kind of player will do anything but call or fold here, as well.

you'll get looked up fairly light the way the hand went down, so go ahead and bet

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wtf why do people love to say this so much... his range is not polarized.

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LOL.

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Using to word polarized is so polarizing your advice.

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half pot

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Easy bet imo, I don't think donks really ever check Ax here that often. They'll make some blocking bet pretty much always. His hand to me looks like air or a middle pair type hand which will be confused by your line and look you up a decent amount.

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south poled his range, imo

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2/3 pot I'd say.. all draws missed, Tx will call ur bet, maybe 7x.

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by the river he knows you don't have an ace so by betting you get a lot more hands to look you up that you beat than you are beaten by. After all you would never value bet a ten here (according to villain).