98 diamonds are forever - 7 handed 50NL

gir · #1 10-13-2006, 12:08 AM

Villain was 28/7/1.4 over 200 hands (Full ring table, 7-handed at the time) in a Beginners room at Party.

Please tell me how you think I played this hand.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (7 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

MP1 ($18.09)
Hero ($64)
CO ($19.25)
Button ($73.68)
SB ($33.40)
BB ($37.93)
UTG ($11.45)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $0.25.
UTG calls $0.50, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.50, 1 fold, Button raises to $2, 2 folds, UTG folds, Hero calls $1.50.

Flop: ($5.25) J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $4, Hero calls $4.

Turn: ($13.25) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $6, Hero ???

What do I dooooooooooooooooo?

Yaboosh · #2 10-13-2006, 01:40 AM

I would call and draw to a blank, since that seems to be the minority of the deck. Block bet a non-spade, non-A, non-K, non-9 river.

Requin · #3 10-13-2006, 10:40 AM

Lead all over the place. I like a flop lead, because check/calling here is meh. There's really only 6 cards that you're that happy to see, and if a Q comes and he has AK (which he should fold to a lead) you are [censored]. Anyways, I bet/fold the turn since he should have SOMETHING and you are ahead once that turn hits. As it is I think I'd reraise and then shove the river. I probably fold if he 3-bets the turn.
Actually I might be overestimating the play on the beginner's tables, if that's the case then treat this like the nuts and reraise, shove river, never folding.

gir · #4 10-13-2006, 06:09 PM

Kay. I'll lead the flop next time (I expected a c-bet from him and didn't want to see a reraise come back at me was the reason I didn't bet). I ended up pushing the turn for my stack. He thought about it and called with QdAs and the board hit a four flush on the river. I'm just wondering if it was an overall bad play. I put him on good hands figuring TT, JJ, QQ, KK, AA, AK, AQ. KQ. 1/8 chance he actually has the straight and a smaller than 3/80 chance that he has the flush. I figured he was betting small so that he could fold to a reraise...but then called my push for an extra $52. I was a 75% favorite...but did I do the right thing? He called with a pair, a flush draw, and an inside straight draw. Would he have called with a set? Definitely.

ahnuld · #5 10-14-2006, 02:04 PM

wtf, requin no. Leading turn folding to a raise sucks, they are deep enough that we can get creative. I like CRing the turn and folding to a reraise given how we got there. But yeah, c/c flop is gross. I like a lead or a CR, which isnt so bad this deep.