Blinds, damn blinds...

[shuinthehouse]

Am I the only one who does not like PF? I will raise K7o 1st in SB against a typical 1-2 villain, and worse against a tight villain, but against a villain who is 40% overall, there is virtually no chance he is folding, so I'm almost definitely playing a crappy hand OOP.

[Smurph64]

I have seen so many retarded river beat bluff bets in 1/2 Full Tilt 6 max lately, I can't imagine they aren't happening in full ring. As played I think you are beat. He probably has the 5 of hearts just in case the flush didn't beat you the straight does.



shuinthehouse I think you have it backwards here you open your range against a guy like this not tighten.

[shuinthehouse]

smurph i don't get it. Against tighty mc-tight who will fold anything but premium hands I can profitably raise ATC since he's folding 90+% of the time. Against loosey-mcloose who will call with any 2 I only want to raise with top 50% hands as I am on average behind with the rest. (Ignoring ability to outplay after flop, which is offset by my being OOP)

[TimovieMan]

I really like the way this hand was played.

Preflop looks good.
Against Tighty McTight, you need to raise K7o first in as a blind steal, since he’ll likely fold. But against Loosy McLoose, this is actually a raise for value, since he’s calling anyway and we’re ahead of his range so much it hurts…
This guy seems pretty aggro, and he may be well aware that we are trying to steal his blinds, and is likely just re-stealing. There’s no indication that he has a premium hand.

I like the flop check-raise. He’s likely not re-raising THAT lightly, so we can reasonably assume he missed the flop. We have middle pair, which HU is a monster. He was the preflop 3-bettor and he’s pretty aggro, so he’s betting out. We have hit the board, so c/r is a-ok!

After our check-raise on the flop, we need to lead any turn card. Him raising us there is representing either a straight or a flush, or another made hand screwplaying with us after the flop.
There’s still a good chance we’re ahead, but now we must assume he could very well have us beat.

Thus I’m calling his turn raise, and calling the river bet, and then I’d make a note on villain’s HU-play.

nh, sir!