25NL - Am I overplaying?
I hate lighting a whole buy-in on fire, and I think I do it more than most people. I'm trying to get better at not unnecessarily inflating pots or overplaying hands, but it's hard for me to distinguish when I'm doing that versus getting max value.
I'm played a ton in the 00s, recently coming back to poker for the first time in a decade. I've been trying to learn and apply new strategies, and I'm sure I'm doing that wrong in some cases. Not as concerned with the bad beat as I am with knowing where I screwed up. Where and how could I do things better/smarter in this hand?
(I couldn't get any hand history converter to work with my ACR HH, so I did it myself. I hope this isn't too hard to read.)
ACR $25 NL 9-max table
UTG has 100BB
Villain (CO) has 150BB
Button has 95BB
Hero (BB) has 100BB
UTG raises to 2.5 BB
Villain calls
Button calls
Hero calls with Ac Kh
Flop (pot: ~10BB): Ad Js 4s
Hero checks
UTG checks
Villain bets 5.8 BB
Button folds
Hero raises to 18.24 BB
UTG folds
Villain calls
Turn (pot: 44.48 BB): Kd
Hero bets 25.88 BB
Villain calls
River (pot: 93.44 BB) : 4d
Hero bets 53.4 BB
Villain calls
Villain shows Ah 4h for full house
Pre-flop: I did not think a 3-bet from BB would fold out any hands and would just inflate the pot OOP, so I opted to slow-play. I'm not sure if this was a bad play.
Flop: Following through with the slow-play, I check/raised the Ace-high flop, hoping to isolate Ax or maybe a suited broadway J. This feels standard?
Turn: I bet out with top 2. Went a little over half-pot to keep Ax in, hoping to get raised by a worse 2 pair. Wondering now if I should have bet smaller or closer to pot size, or if that's just results-oriented thinking.
River: I expected that if I checked, villain would go all in anyway. Felt like all-in was the only play here. Is it?
3 Replies
Yes, it was a bad play preflop. AKo doesn't play great 4 way OOP. You should pretty much always 3-bet, and if you're unsure of sizing, go a little larger.
XRing the flop MW w/ top pair, almost always a losing play. Once you hit your card on the turn, the rest pretty much plays itself.
Appreciate it, I didn't know that about c/r the flop either. If that's no good, best play is check/call over donk bet, I'm guessing?
Yeah I would check/call flop here, if the villain is competent they should be able to fold most of their 1 pair vs a CR 4 way. That said this is the CO player who has flatted, and not the original raiser - decent change they are a weaker player and could pay off some Ax.
Default in these spots though would be to CC the flop.
I will donk some MW spots with strong hands if there is a fish in the hand and I believe the original raiser is too likely to check.
