A couple of BB Specials from the WCOOP #2

[hockey coach]

Here's a couple of hands I caught in the BB early in yesterday's WCOOP event. No strong reads, my image should have been TAGgy - showed down 2 hands AA and AK - saw a fair number of flops but hadn't been aggressive when I missed.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

Button (t820)
SB (t1140)
Hero (t4180)
UTG (t5620)
UTG+1 (t2815)
MP1 (t2460)
MP2 (t2345)
MP3 (t4370)
CO (t3490)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
UTG calls t50, <font color="#666666">7 folds</font>, Hero checks.

Flop: (t125) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t200</font>, UTG calls t200.

Turn: (t525) J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t250</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t750</font>, Hero calls t500.

River: (t2025) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG bets t1500</font>, Hero ???.


And then 2 orbits later ....

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

Button (t2115)
SB (t990)
Hero (t3030)
UTG (t6500)
UTG+1 (t2490)
MP1 (t2635)
MP2 (t2145)
MP3 (t3895)
CO (t3440)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP3 calls t50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls t50, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero checks.

Flop: (t225) 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
Hero checks, MP1 checks, MP3 checks, Button checks.

Turn: (t225) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t300</font>, MP1 folds, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 raises to t600</font>, Button folds, Hero calls t300.

River: (t1425) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 bets t850</font>, Hero ???


Comments on all streets welcomed.

HC

[stevepa]

Please stop overbetting the pot in spots where the only hands that overbet the pot are exactly what you have. That will make things much much easier. Now you're in two pretty bad spots.

Hand 1 is a fold since the only hand you might have beaten just drew out on you (ok, maybe he sometimes has 97s but virtually never).

Hand 2 is probably closer. I probably call because I'm a calling station and some people occasionally play hearts like that. Uggh...just noticed that many combinations of hearts just made straights (or pairs that are more likely to check behind). So this is probably a fold too.

Steve

[hockey coach]

Steve -

Thanks for responding - you interpret both leads there as that strong?

I intentionally overbet the first hand expecting that villian would read me for a 6 or draw and if he'd limped a big/medium pair would raise to shut me out and I could win a decent pot (and if he'd whiffed I wasn't getting anything anyway). The flat call wasn't in the plan :-) Do you lead/call the turn after the club comes?

Similarly w/ the second hand after it checked through in a limped pot I didn't expect there was much out there and that any reasonable bet would take it down but the overbet might make someone curious. You make a standard value bet here? How do you respond to a RR (and what do you think could be out there doing it)?

Thanks again,
HC