Blunders at parx $750Big stax?
H1- 2nd bullet day 2 at 100-100 level. 40k starting stacks and we 5 handed. Old guy opens to 300, button is competent tourny player flats. I’m in bb with 36dd and call. This is iffy spot. Flop 2-6-J with two diamonds. Old guy bets 600, call by button, I make it 3k. Old guy fold and button calls. Turn is a black 5. I lead 60-70%pot and he calls. River 8 black. I bet maybe 12.5k into 18k. Do you like line? I have a lot of 2 pair's and sets- feel we gotta continue bluff. Will say result after.
H2- another bullet, I have 60k at 300 level. Utg is older competent white guy- opens to 1k, I’m to his left and make it 3.5k with kk. Folds to him he makes it 9k. I elect to 4! To 20k and he jams. I sigh and call. He has AA lol and we lose. Is this just a spot we going to lose. Flop would have been J72 and turn was under K so I felt we were def calling regardless all in and never folding. Still think calling 4! Is prolly better play bc I don’t think villian continues with say AQ or AK. His range is like kk+ prolly when he jams 200bb. He wasn’t a full on tight older guy- seemed aggro enough however not sure what my 5! Accomplishes except allow him to fold hands we dominate.
H3- mid stages I have 22 and call an open. Flop is 256. We x raise flop. Turn 5. Xx. River 4 and now 4 spades on board. Wanna say I bet 2-2.5x pot to make it look bluffy and feel we get called by flush’s a lot. He folds. Dealer looked at me funny bc my sizing was so big. Felt hand was so underrepped and we might get called by a flush. Don’t have hand specifics but felt betting big is good bc my hand is so disguised and odd flushes might call. In reality- should bet turn and just set up psb on river.
Just think we either get called or folded to here. Felt going super big was right play to get max value. Even if I bet 1/3 pot, I think he’s either calling or folding. Felt in game that going super big was the right idea. Looking back- nothing about how hand played out said he had a big flush that would call + board is super dangerous so not
Sure we ever getting called unless villian has a very good flush
H4- very first bullet- 5 handed and 100-100-
Everyone has 40k starting. Ok old guy makes it 400 mp, I’m in sb with 10-10 and make it 1600. We see flop of 279, I cbet 75% pot he calls. Turn 7. I x he x. River 8. I lead 8k into 8400. He raises to 17k. We ever finding fold here? I called. He ended up having A7ss. Looking back this raise is prolly a fold. Didn’t think he had a 7 bc feel population is betting turn in position close to 100% of time. Thought maybe he could go crazy with A9 or some 9x and 10-10 too good to fold. Guy was an omc though so prolly never a bluff on river or valuing 9x so strong. I bet 8k into 8400 so yea think most just call 9x there bc not much value to be had by raising
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More hands- these are late game blunders I think I wanted to ask about.
H5- we got like 60k at 1k level. Open KQo ep to 2k, older Indian guy makes it 5k. Feel I normally muck here but I’m like damn it’s so small. I called. Flop is J92 with two diamonds- we have one diamond. I x call. Turn 9. Goes xx. River 3 of diamonds. I bet 60-70% pot as a bluff and he kinda tank calls with kk. Do we just muck this pre? Wanna say his 3! Range is prolly JJ+ AK+ honestly. Players like this are 3! AQ or 10-10 I’m thinking. The sizing was what got me- I think I fold to 6k without a thought. Sure KQ suited is a call pre but KQo is prolly an easy exploit fold.
H6- this one is another idk what I was thinking. Ok we had been tight at new table
Due to now cards. 120k at 3k level. Ep opens to 6.5k, I have A-10o in sb and make it 19k as a 3!/fold, he calls and we see flop of K-2-8, I cbet 11k into 44i and he calls. Turn 7.I x he bet 26k and I fold.
This is terrible spot to 3! Pre as a bluff? I kinda wish I just fold or call pre. Prefer fold oop. Think this is a great hand to 3!/ fold if it’s an mp or lp open but against an utg or utg+1, this is a really bad spot. Not sure why I took it bc it’s spewing chips. Flop- I go 1/4th bc I need to continue my story. Think I bet turn when I pick up straight draws or A but x fold all others.
h1 - raising flop is pretty good. when called, the only hand you're in pretty bad shape against that you don't heavily block or isn't excluded by preflop action is deuces. turn is good, doesn't improve much of his range and gives you additional equity. though i will say you have less fold equity given he called that massive raise on flop, i think i'd go with an overbet or check here to leverage that set advantage or see if you can peel off a diamond. dunno about river, you might want to give up because you block some of his folds with the diamonds. if you are to continue, i think you should size up to an overbet shove given he called same sizing on turn and this doesn't change the board too much.
h2 - happens, sucks. maybe some icm stuff makes this more of a flat than 5bet but im not a poor person so idk
h3 - idk if you have a lot of bluffs here that xr flop. can you name any hands that check raise flop and don't end up becoming a flush or boat? maybe weak overpairs like 7s-9s(TT+ would 3b). I also don't think villain is as inelastic as you think, he could be calling off Js+ to 1/3 or maybe even 1/2 pot but with this sizing i think hes only calling with As and better boats.
h4 - river minclick is very rarely a bluff, i don't think omc is doing this with a9 for value.
h5 - don't know this guy
h6 - prefer to 3b bluff with *suited * Ax in this spot, offsuit aces are too dominated against stronger Ax when called
H1- feel 60-70% looks like going for value. I could go over pot also. I feel I might go 1.25-1.5x with flush here so prolly same with bluff. Maybe I’m wrong but just wonder if 1.5x pot gets more folds than 60-70%. I look aggro: villian told me later I looked confident enough to throw in a big bluff (which is truth)
H3- yea I don’t think I’m x raising bluffs here really. Especially with run out. Prolly true it’s not ideal to go so big. Just felt like maybe some odd A or Kx of spades would call river no matter what my sizing was. Felt turn check was bad by my but also set up a spot were my had is super underepped.
H6- I agree. Think the fact it’s utg vs sb (me) is bad spot to 3 bet. I’m oop and villian look competent. He was youngish white guy so I assume he’s opening wide enough. I don’t mind 3! Fold bc he should be open ling JQ KQ etc type hands we beat. I’m confident in my post flop skills and not going to punt when it comes Axx with A-10o which I easily can run into AJ+, normally would check Axx flop with this hand to pot control and get better read on where my hand is post flop. Def a bad spot to take by me. Kinda think I should also maybe consider betting turn sometimes here as a pure bluff. It might work. Def think the 3! Is a pass tho oop
In the future you might want to focus on just one or two hands per thread. That invites more detailed feedback. As the hands were presented here it feels like a massive undertaking to read through and comment on them all.
Also, it would be helpful if you listed the pot size in parentheses on each street so it's easier to follow what the pot sizes are in relation to effective stacks.
I don't mean to criticize. I just think you will get more feedback that way, and you can always make multiple threads. Poker players are lazy.
Due to the aforementioned laziness, I am just going to comment on the first hand.
On the flop I think both a call and raise are reasonable options. In these early levels I'm more often taking the low variance route of calling. I would rather raise with 43d and 53d combo draws that have no showdown value. If I'm raising I'm trying to plan sizings that will generate the most folds.
As played up to the river I'm a little uncertain about how much you still had behind, but I think it's reasonable to go for it with the bluff after you arrive here this way. Obviously you can't go bananas every time with flush draw type hands or it will be pretty obvious you are bluffing way too much. However this time with a blocker to a set of 6s, and unblocking the most likely button flush draws (Adx, Broadway diamonds), I think it is reasonable to go for the river bluff.
If you made a mistake it was likely with the sizing. I think an all-in bet is much more likely to get a jack to fold, which is his most likely holding that might call a river bet. If my gorilla math is correct, you likely had something like 22k remaining going to the river? When you think about it if you had 2 pair+ you would want to be playing for stacks, so if you're bluffing play it the same way and jam!
H1 - looks fine, I just don't know on the river if people will fold Jx in a live 750
H2 - once he makes it 9k I'd just call unless he has history of spazzing out.
H3 - I'd just bet the turn - 5 doesn't change your range all that much so you should get another bet from an overpair
H4 - I'd probably bet the turn - as played his river raise has to be purely better hands given he checked the turn with his middling value hands. Would be an insanely bizarre line for him to bluff here
H1: I probably just call on the flop because BTN called and we will be OOP in a biggish pot if we raise. We block some of BTN's flush draws so my gut tells me BTN has Jx hand or a set. It is a spot where we have great chances of improving. Once you raise and improve on the turn I like the value bet. On the river I just don't know. I just doubt BTN missed a draw. The big question is what do you look like? If you are an old white guy like me then the triple barrel would be a rarity and would cause folds. If you are a youngish aggro white guy then I would give up on the river.
H2: Not an easy spot. I almost never 5 bet with KK vs an older white guy (though in the WSOP Main I 4 bet his 3 bet after a young white guy opened UTG) and then 6 bet all in, on Day 2, because he had just showed AA on the previous hand and I was not thinking straight (K on the flop though). So now I would just call. I really don't think this guy would 4 bet AK because he was UTG and your raise is very strong so you are never folding a PP. I'm going to call his flop and turn bets because he can have QQ though I think it is mostly AA. Not sure what to do if he jams the river.
H3: it matters if the flop has 2 or 3 spades. Assuming it is 2 spades I get the check on the turn where the flush could have gotten there, but I prefer a bet of about the same size we made on the flop, or even a little smaller to make it look like we are minimizing our losses in case Villain has a flush and would bet bigger than us. River bet is very polarizing and would work sometimes if Villain has a flush. But it looks like you can have a nut flush the way this went down. Could have had the nut flush on the turn if that was the 5 of spades. My sense is that Villain has an overpair but unclear whether they have a spade or not.
H4: Excellent pre flop sizing. Nice flop bet. Super excellent turn check when the board pairs. But I would basically always check the river and call the bet. We do block JT but not 65 and yes Villain can have 7x because they want to make it look like they don't. If we check the river Villain might even value bet 9x hands. And yes Villain is never 2x raising on the river with a worse hand than TT.
H5: I basically always call a 2.5x 3 bet preflop with KQo. They can have TT+ and yes some AK/AQ which we block but possibly AJ/KJ as the guy is from India or an American Indian. You block KK/QQ here and Villain did have KK. I love your value bet on the river when the flush gets there.
H6: I just never 3-bet ATo (or even ATs) against an EP open unless its a GTO/Solver wide range guy. But I also wouldn't do it in the SB or BB ever because we would be playing a huge pot OOP. I almost always fold ATo here preflop. Part of the problem here is that you made the preflop 3 bet 3x instead of 4x (or conceivably 3.5x if that is what you always do, but I am a 4x OOP guy). You basically have no FE.
For the record I always like your multiple hands in one thread thing. Doing 6 threads here would be difficult... I'm also very happy I'm not at Parx playing in the Big Staxx against you...
Haha trust me you wanted to play against me bit seemed like every thing that could go wrong did go wrong. I’m Also easy to play against bc I’m going to over bluff.
The KQo hand was tough. I feel it’s a fold but to 2.5x, it might be a continue. I feel I need to fold it though bc the 3! Range has got to be AK+ JJ+. This player was an American Indian that just didn’t give me the crazy to 3! Light vibe. I never think he’s 3! AJ, KQs KQo. Btw I turned hand into bluff on river bc he check back turn. I didn’t have 2 diamonds so no flush. Just blocked potential flushes a little. I felt his check back on turn was a little weakness so thought I had to fire river with K high to try and win sometimes with the hand.
Example of it going wrong- late in a 1/3 cas game when I was up 1k, got Kk in against 99 on a flop like 258 for maybe a $600-800 pot and the turn was a wonderful 9 after we got a lot of BBs in. Sometimes it’s just not your weekend.
Also my final bullet, got QQ in against AKss and a shorty stack of J-10dd for 51bb. Flop has a J after we get it in pre- turn is a miserable K lol. Not complaining- it was just a flip but still kinda annoying bc day 2 would have been fun with 30-40 BBs.
