$1500 monster stack spots
Hey all, got some fun little ands from the monster stack. Nothing insane but just wanna ask?
H1/ this spot is day 2 in the money. I have 60-70bb after catching some heat. Big stack. Ok folds to sb, he completes to 12k at 6-12k level. I have prolly 700-800k. He has 298k. I see KJss and make it 48k, he jams. I sigh call. Do you like this? I feel KJss is too good to fold here. I might even call and open rip of 25 bb but still the limp jam is going to be strong. We ran against A5dd and he held. Not end of world. We had equity. He was like a euro it seemed that took 20-30 seconds to act normally but didn’t seem super good at poker bc he has to think 20 seconds over every decision?
H2- 3/6k level before money. JC Tran opens on 30bb roughly mp and I have kk in bb. Wanna say I have 200-300k. I elect to flat as bb is super underbluffed as a 3!. Flop k67, I x call 10k from him. Turn 5 xx. River 4 xx. He says he is lucky- had AQ and would have busted. Do I just 3! This hand? I feel it’s a better play to flat here and get super tricky against a player we know is aggro. I feel he might just go crazy post and barrel and we can x raise turn or flop a lot? Do I just 3! This pre always?
H3- 16k level. Active Argentinian player opens to 35k on button. I’m in bb with A5ss and make it 120k. He peels. He has me covered- I might have 500k at this stage. Flop 10-J-K. I cbet 65k he calls. Turn 2 xx. River 7 xx. He tables A-10. For the win. Did I goof here not going for it on turn? I feel maybe I should just set up what looks like a river jam on river but idk?
H4- just fun hand to post. I open Kjo (no club) ep with 20bb. Kelly minkin defends bb. She has me covered. We see K48 all clubs. I cbet 1/3 she call. Turn red jack. She x I make it 175k into like 235k pot she rips i call. She has K3 o with no club!
Made day 3 of monster with like 30 bb so have a chance!
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Hand 2: Im 3betting everytime. Solver doesn't slowplay monsters at all at this stack depth vs mp. If you think that others perceive a BB 3bet as strong, then the exploit is 3bet bluffing more, not slowplaying more. Even AA is a pure 3bet, it starts to flat around 20bb and less.
Hand 3: There needs to be a bet on the turn or river, or maybe both. I kind of like check turn and then bluff river if he checks turn back, you have plenty of AK, KQ, AA, QQ, AJ type hands that want to pot control turn and then get some value on the river.
Hand 2: Im 3betting everytime. Solver doesn't slowplay monsters at all at this stack depth vs mp. If you think that others perceive a BB 3bet as strong, then the exploit is 3bet bluffing more, not slowplaying more. Even AA is a pure 3bet, it starts to flat around 20bb and less.
Hand 3: There needs to be a bet on the turn or river, or maybe both. I kind of like check turn and then bluff river if he checks turn back, you have plenty of AK, KQ, AA, QQ, AJ type hands that want to pot contro
Hand 3- what % of pot do you bet here with a pure bluff? I would guess 50-70% pot?
H1 - It's close. I usually sigh fold because people are usually limp shoving monsters. I would probably raise a bit less so that I can decide. I think with your raise size, it is closer to a call.
H2 - This is a 3 bet for me. I don't think you want to be tricky here. I don't want to be in a guessing game OOP. To him you are some random player. Build the pot.
H3 - I usually give up here. Him having AT is the absolute bottom of his range. If I go for it, it would be based on my imagine being tight and how wide I have seen the other player peel. I think you should be bluffer here more often (I under bluff in these spots as well).
H3 - After you bet the turn, it's a call. The pot is too big now and she can obviously have worse Kings.
I don’t play tourneys, but a penny for my thoughts!
H1: KJs will obviously do a lot of raise calling bvb, but don’t think defending is as necessary as you think it is 25bbs deep with no antes. Definitely not against an open ship. I agree your raise size is too large and made this closer than it needs to be.
H2: We should really only slowplay when our only reraise size is a shove. If we have a reraise/fold range, then we should be reraising our nuts.
Also, I’d lead river to get some light call downs with split pairs and get his stack just as often when he’s coolered. I’d save my x/jams for hands that unblock Kx.
H3: If you’re not 3!ing Q8s or 98s-, then you’re at the bottom of your range. It could be fine to underbluff here though depending on how population plays on 3-BW boards.
Hand one fold you fish… personally I dont even think it’s close for 25bb.
Hand 2 3b obviously, lol at trying to outplay JC Tran OOP.
Hand 3, I mean you kind of have to barrel turn but his raise calls probably have sex with this board alot.
Hand one fold you fish… personally I dont even think it’s close for 25bb.
Hand 2 3b obviously, lol at trying to outplay JC Tran OOP.
Hand 3, I mean you kind of have to barrel turn but his raise calls probably have sex with this board alot.
Hand 3 I agree I feel his range is smashed bc it’s going to have a lot Broadway and some continues with Qx. I feel I should bet turn and give up river honestly and prolly just make it look like I’m shoving river with my bet sizing on turn to set up a psb.
H2 yea looking back I feel it’s a raise sadly. He told me he felt lucky bc he was stacking off. I felt he would be opening proper and would barrel most flops so my hand would be easy to check call one street and jam turn. My image was tight at that point due to not a lot of spots for me to open. My image is prolly loose as I did show down a bluff at table that worked.
Final note- i ended up losing today in a spot where I flatted kk again but guy had AA and jammed flop Q93. Thought I was not running into tonAA but guy opened lol 2.667x pre on shallow stack so he is going to be super strong. Just unlucky to run into monster. I ended up jamming A4hh over an open and lady behind had kk. I turned a flush draw and had A as an out on river but came up empty on river. Great tournament. Didn’t feel I ran super hot in it minus a few spots so really happy with result. Got 4 buyins for 6.1k. Wsop is good. I still felt tournies at Wynn are super soft for even higher buy ins
Hand 1 - I don't think much you can do here. I would think a limping range BvB is wide enough that we need to raise preflop, and it might eliminate the stronger parts of his range with the limp jam.
Hand 2 - I like the flat unless he's opening a super tight range or thinks you 3b like a madman. Postflop I'm surprised he didn't barrel - great flop for his range and poor flop for yours
Hand 3 - don't think I'd 3bet this hand specifically - not looking to build a pot OOP with these stacks and this hand when it flops relatively well and we're lost on Axx boards. As played with this flop you should just check/fold - terrible flop for you and he's going to have something here most of the time. If you do decide to cbet this this would be a board you need to barrel on but overall check/folding is preferred.
Hand 4 - think she should fold K3 here. Postflop nothing she can do but call it off - you have a ton of single club hands, and with the jack turn maybe you jam QT/gutshots. That's the problem though with defending hands like that - tons of RIO.