No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$5.00+$0.25Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converterSBHero2095 BBmarques105905 Effective Stacks: 30bbBlinds 15/30
- Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB
Hero raises to 60, marques105 raises to 120, Hero calls 60
- Flop (240, 2 players)
marques105 checks, Hero checks
- Turn (240, 2 players)
marques105 checks, Hero checks
- River (240, 2 players)
marques105 goes all-in 785, Hero calls 785
- Final Pot: 1810
- Hero shows a flush, Ace high
- marques105 shows a flush, King high
- Hero wins 1810 ( won +905 )
- marques105 lost -905
Villain has been limping almost every hand on the button, otherwise folding. He's been very aggressive, donking on many flops and stabbing pot in limped pots frequently. Sometimes, he would check flop and make a pot-sized bet on the turn and he always followed up on his bets/bluffs. This was hand #69 and the first hand he had cbet the entire match, so I put him on a super-strong range, though also thought it was about time he would get fed up with my preflop raising, which had steadily increased because he was only calling 13% over the first 40 hands. Upon hitting 15/30 blinds, his calling % did go way up. I honestly didn't know if KQo would be in that range, but it is certainly the bottom of his range. Given his overly-aggressive nature and the fact that he checked the flop and turn, were my checks on those streets good?
"This was hand #69 and the first hand he had cbet the entire match" he doesnt c-bet?I would definetely bet the flop, IP + nut flush draw + mid pair. Id probably 60-80% of pot so that it appears i am protecting my hand from flush draws.On the turn if he calls my flop bet, i would then check back to appear weak when my nut flush draw completes.the river is obv a call, but if he checks the river id just make a small bet hoping to induce a bluff.
Even if his range is super-strong here you have great equity on this flop. With a range of TT+ and AQ+ you are a 58/42 favorite. I don't hate the check-back on the flop though because I doubt this type of player checks KK+ or AK since they don't have a flush draw. What does this leave then? PPs bigger than a 9 with a spade and AQ with the Q of spades type hands. Once the spade comes on the turn you should bet. you either win the pot when he has nothing or you get his whole stack when he has a spade. You are losing value on his Ts-Qs hands and nothing else pays off anyway. MW
Thank you for the responses guys...I just noticed what may be a critical mistake in my writeup of my read on Villain: It should read "This was hand #69 and the first hand he had ***NOT*** cbet the entire match, so I put him on a super-strong range..."It should probably be "obvious" that if he does have a strong hand, he has a flush draw included with that hand, but that concept flew right over my head until you mentioned it.