1-3 NL Holdem
Hero: KhQh in HJ
Effective stack: 220
2 limpers
Raise to 15
Button calls 15
All fold.
Flop: 8h 4h Jd
Hero: bets 25, HJ calls
Turn: 8h 4h Jd 6c
Hero: bet 35
Button: raise to 80
Hero: calls
River: 8h 4h Jd 6c 6h
Hero: ?
6 Replies
I would shove the river with less than half pot left, but you could be losing. If you check, you have to call.
I am not sure about big bet on flop which is better for caller's range. Turn, could maybe go bigger or check.
A bit of friendly advice, OP - try to make your thread titles more descriptive, to attract more responses, and also so that if you ever want to go back and review your past hand histories, you know what to look for.
Also, it's helpful if you include pot size on every street, and any table reads.
As for the hand...
Raise bigger pre. At least $20, if not $25.
I'd prefer to check flop from OOP when HU as the PFR, to let V stab at it. Especially when we get called by the BTN, who'll have a wide range that can include all the sets, some 2P, and any number of draws. With a hand that has as much equity as ours, I might check raise if he bets small. If he checks back, we can make a delayed c-bet on the turn. If you are going to c-bet the flop, go smaller, like 1/3 pot or less.
Once he calls the flop, I'd check this turn, again, to let him stab at it. It sucks to bet and get blown off our equity if V puts in a big raise.
I don't understand the bet of $35 into $85-$90 on the turn. That size looks weak, and induces raises, both for value and with bluffs.
V's raise to $80 looks like a stop raise with a weak value hand, or possibly a weak bluff. I'm not sure, but I think our hand has too much equity and not enough showdown value to 3B, so calling to try and make our hand seems like the only option.
Then again, if our table image is good, and V is scared money, I think I might 3B the turn occasionally, if I was very confident in my read of V and the situation. Even if V has a very strong hand, we're never drawing dead, and can credibly rep some sets that might take this line.
If you only started $220 effective, the river is just a jam. You only have $100 left, and there's $250 in the pot. Just stick it in and hope he calls with a worse hand.
I'd overlimp in. If raising, I'd raise to 10% of stacks to make the postflop stackoff with TP that much more comfortable.
Any reads on Button? Against anyone who could be stabby, I might check to check/raise (prolly just shove at these stacks) with our good hand equity + FE.
Next time post pot sizes on each street so we know what we're dealing with.
Not sure how much FE we're generating on the turn with our smallish bet. We have no FE once he raises, but we're getting the odds to call to chase our flush draw, so I also call the raise.
I'm too lazy to count up the pot but my guess is we probably have very little stacks left, so easy jam (as he'll MUBSy check back a bunch of hands that will consider calling, and we can't fold, so make sure money sometimes goes in with us ahead which a check rarely does).
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I would raise more pre after two limpers.
Flop is good, but I would jam the turn (180 into 90 not for value, I would be tryna fold him out since we're not always gonna make our flush and I would think we have plenty of FE).
No reads or history with villain? As played on the river I slightly lean towards fonk jamming, but it is closer than one might think. It's not impossible for v to bluff a hand like T9 without hearts or button click some pair on the river. It's not impossible they will fold hands that ham if checked to.
Raise more pre. You should raise more than your normal open size against 2 limpers and more than that facing additional limpers and so on. Also if you were out of position I would raise even larger.
Flop is fine. After betting 64% pot on the flop, I don't like going less than half pot on a pretty tricky turn. If betting I would go 60 on turn to set up a river jam for 120. That would be how you would want to play an AJ+ if going bet, bet.
I also think we could play the flop as a small bet to set up two larger bets in turn and river. I also think checking and then either calling or raising based on his size also can work. The one thing I don't like is betting large on the flop and betting small on a brick turn. Especially at this stack depth our bet sizing in each street should contemplate how to get all the money in by the river. Our semi bluffs should threaten villain with potentially getting stacks in by the river, even if we choose to give up if we miss.
River is a jam. He can call with many worse hands.
No raise on the flop you can slightly discount sets, and A high flush draws.
He could have quads or 68 that beat you, but that's about it.
If he checks back AJ or J8 it's a disaster.