Tptk vs turn small donk
1/3 8 handed
V is a bit aggro. Opens wide, opens big with stronger hands, opens smaller with speculative hands. 4bet jamming rangr(ak/aa), 3bet range(AJs/JJ)
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HH1
V opens AQo to 25 in ep, 3 callers
A94hh V cbets 25 1 caller
9 V checks caller bets 80 V jams for 300ish. caller calls and won w/9t.
HH2
multiway pot, pot is like 100+
flop j98dd all check
Turn 2d V in btn bets 35 w/Kd Th 2 callers
River 5 V bets 100, 1 call with J7ss and won.
HH3
V limps in mp co limps
Hero opens to 20 in btn
V calls, Co calls
Flop A56r, H cbets 30 V calls
Turn A xx
Riv Q xx, V is good w/A4
HH4
Co opens to 20 V 3bets to 60 w/AA, Co calls
Flop T84hh V checks, Co bets 50, V x/r to 150, Co snap jam for like 500 on top.
V tank open folds AA.
HH5
5way limp pot.
Flop TT6r V in btn bets 10, H calls in bb.
Turn J V bets 10 again, H calls
Riv 9 xx, Hero won w/T3, V shows A6cc.
Hero has a tight image but has been 3betting V a few times. V only 4 bet jammed AK once and played the rest passively. We won all of them except the one where he 4bet shipped AK, we folded, 1 fish called w/JKs.
Btn rock straddles to 5 bb calls, V in utg limps
H in Mp opens to 25 w/A♠J♣, V calls
Effective stacks 450
Pot 60
Flop J♥4♦5♦
V checks H cbets 25, V calls
Pot 110
Turn 9♣ V donks 25, Hero?
5 Replies
Cbet bigger to $30. As played, raise turn to $100-$125
Call and raise both have merit. I think raising on a somewhat wet board is preferred but not too large where he will fold top pair. 75-100 is fine.
$75 fold to 3b
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H raises to 125, V folds
I typically fold AJo in EPish but it's just my line-in-the-sand.
SPR is 7 and we offered Villain very good IO of ~19:1 IO preflop. So I simply don't want to play for stacks with TPTK and would also feel fairly uncomfortable facing a flop check/raise. With this in mind, I would lean to checking back the flop, which might induce, and get to showdown for bets on the turn/river. Did we have a comfortable plan for facing a check/raise?
As played, even though the turn donk is very small and he could be giving himself his own good odds to chase a draw, I just call for my flop reasons. Getting to showdown for a reasonable price for the strength of our hand is more important than anything else, imo.
ETA: This is the second HH against this guy where I don't think we are utilizing our position as good as we should be. In both cases I prefer a call to keep his bluffs / nonsense in, meanwhile not building a pot too big for our hand, where we can then evaluate what happens on the river (where we could then think about raising against a lol small blocking bet then). A lot of opponents will turn their hand face up on later streets and yet we're not enabling them to do that by putting them to commitment decisions on earlier streets.
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