NL50 - Strange spot with TP

greggg230 · #1 10-14-2007, 01:24 AM

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Hero ($78.25)
BB ($55.35)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
Hero raises to $2, BB raises to $6, Hero calls $4.

Flop: ($12) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] (2 players)
BB bets $7.5, Hero raises to $20, BB raises to $49.35, Hero folds.

Final Pot: $52

Results in white below: 
No showdown. BB wins $52. 

This was a 6-max game that dwindled down to heads-up play.

I don't have much cash HU experience.

I was operating under the following line of thought:

1) Good stack sizes justify calling with this hand in position.
2) The range of hands he could be 3-betting with includes a lot of hands that aren't big pairs that raising here has positive expectation (at least to not give Ax a free card).
3) Size of the raise was such that I could get away from a push, where I'd surely be beaten.

How would you play this differently, if you would?

Vinetou · #2 10-14-2007, 04:14 AM

I prefer a passive line here. I would call him two times, and fold to a third barrell probably. You lose the same amount that way as if you raised, you give yourself a chance to suckout, and you also get information against most players. No need to raise for information here. The way you played it, you have to fold.

Hopeatron · #3 10-14-2007, 04:42 AM

So if a Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] comes on the turn, you still call?

Vinetou · #4 10-14-2007, 04:55 AM

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So if a Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] comes on the turn, you still call?

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I know it is annoying if I say that, but it depends. You have any reads on a guy?

greggg230 · #5 10-14-2007, 05:09 AM

Nothing in particular. He hadn't sat down too long ago.

He did tank for a long time after I raised him on the flop, FWIW.

Is the hand up to the flop-raise standard?

Do you call his 3-bet pre-flop?

Vinetou · #6 10-14-2007, 05:16 AM

I don't like calling preflop with this hand, but it is nothing wrong if you do so, especially if he's been reraising a lot you have to defend. Without reads, I fold this preflop. I find that when I don't speculate too much with calling 3 bets preflop, I stay out of a lot of trouble. This hand is one of them. Even if you are a great postflop player, it is not worth it (unless you are defending because he is reraising too much).