[MICRO] Should I ever be folding the river here?
Still new to poker, and playing 2nl 6max on ACR. Any advice is appreciated.
Here is some background info on the villain (386 hands tracked):
VPIP 25%
PFR 19%
PFR from BTN 38%
Aggression factor 1.69
No Limit Hold'em $0.01/$0.02
Winning Poker Network
6 players
Formatted by pokercopilot.com: Poker HUD for Mac and Windows
Stacks:
UTG - UTG ($3.41)
MP - MP ($1.14)
CO - CO ($2.00)
BTN - BTN ($4.43)
SB - SB ($2.76)
BB - Hero ($3.55)
Preflop: ($0.03, 6 players) Hero is BB with As 6d
3 folds, BTN raises to $0.06, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.04
Flop: Ac 2s Qd ($0.13, 2 players - BTN : $4.37, Hero: $3.49)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.06, Hero calls $0.06
Turn: 6c ($0.25, 2 players - BTN : $4.31, Hero: $3.43)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.37, Hero calls $0.37
River: Js ($0.99, 2 players - BTN : $3.94, Hero: $3.06)
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.20, Hero calls $1.20
Total Pot: $3.39
BTN shows Ad Qc (two pair, Aces and Queens [Ad Ac Qd Qc Js])
Hero shows As 6d (two pair, Aces and Sixs [As Ac 6d 6c Qd])
BTN wins $3.23 from main pot
11 Replies
You played it good. Its just a cooler.
If it was a fishy player, id ch/raise turn
I'd fold pre vs a 3x at micros (rake)
Folding river. Great runout for IP and fish so rarely take this line with worse.
Thanks for your input.
When the 6 hit on the turn I was planning on check raising but the villain’s sizing was so big it confused me.
I had the same thought when I was reviewing this hand in retrospect. It was hard coming up with hands I beat aside from pure bluffs.
In a high rake game like 2nl on ACR, what would you recommend my defending range in the BB be against a 3x BTN open?
I would just use the 50nl rake on gto wiz for a baseline:
If gto is struggling to make much out of it the chances it's + EV for us mere mortals in the spot are slim to nil
haha much appreciated!
A6 offsuit is really a trash hand, at least the A2o -> A5o have a chance to make a decent straight
When I was looking over the hand, I was kicking myself for even getting involved.
If villain opens the BTN with 38% of all hands, is it not worth defending the BB with A6-A8o?
GTO Wizard even has charts for 3x open and punitive rake (25NL according to their classification, should be close enough to 2NL). In Ceres chart above for a 2.5x open and 50NL you see BB folds 60% of their range, while vs 3x and 25NL rake we fold 70% of our hands!
It defends some unsuited aces but only with 3bets. Huge 3bets!, 13BB, because it's using a polarized range composed of very strong hands & trash hands.
You can see calling with A6o is losing 0,18BB, which is massive (18 BB / 100 hands would be an excellent winrate...). Of course the solver plays vs a solver, your real human BTN opponent is much weaker than a solver. But a. you are also much weaker than a solver and b. you want to move to stakes where people are better, so you might as well start using the proper preflop ranges.
Learning & applying proper preflop ranges is the best thing you can do to improve your game when you are a beginner.
Now with the image of A6o losing 18BB / 100 hands.
Thank you, this is really helpful. I agree I have been focusing most of my attention on preflop.
I was using the preflop charts from upswing that had A6o as a call against a BTN RFI.
However, I did not take into account the rake and the size of the open.
GTO wizard seems like a very useful tool, would you recommend it to a beginner?
