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minotaurs's picture
88 17bb deep

Villain was TAG, didnt play all his hands, check raised me huge, didnt c bet some dry and wet boards and gave up on turn.
4 bet shoved over my 1st bluff 3 bet and lost a lot of chips 2nd time 4 bet jaming 88 over my JJ
When he was down to 500 [blinds 15/30] chips started shoving a lot of hands IP and OOP
What would be the best way to play this hand from beggining[limping, jaming, min raising]? And if i did get in this position what would be the best play?
No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players$6.71+$0.29Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converterSBHero2475 BBBB525 Effective Stacks: 18bbBlinds 15/30Pre-Flop (45, 2 players) Hero is SB  Hero raises to 60, BB calls 30Flop (120, 2 players)   BB checks, Hero bets 60, BB raises to 180Hero ????????

batman's picture
Villain sounds aggressive so

Villain sounds aggressive so I think you have to get it in here.  Hopefully they turn over a draw... min raising is the best option pre imo as villain as been 3betting a lot from your description. Definitely getting this hand in pre is possible. I don't think it is strong enough to limp, just in case villain doesn't jam over you. I would only open jam vs a loose villain who rarely 3bets. I think we're still a bit deep for that though, maybe around 15bb?I'm a 3.50 player tho...:)

minotaurs's picture
It actuallly wasnt a lot of

It actuallly wasnt a lot of hands till this point, he was shoved agresion but he was also folding some hands IP and OOP, and giving up 2 boards IP which was i think standart c bet [1 of them Q22]. And yea its about 17-18 BB. Of course i wanted to get it in pre :DMaybe not c betting is best here, dont know

danzig's picture
Openraising to either induce

Openraising to either induce a 3bet get a fold or build a pot with a decent hand in position is best. Limping does nothing good for you, only overcards. Jamming would be wasteful, especially if he's 3betshoving frequently.As played I'd shove but think it's a marginal spot. 88 is the weakest hand I would be willing to stack off with. Theres a decent amount of draws, the board is hard to hit plus he can have air. Still we probably get it in with 2 outs a decent amount and I have no idea if it's actually +ev against villain. Stacksizes are nasty, I think it's really really close I just feel that not felting this, if he seems aggressive at all, is too weak. That said AK probably does better here than 88. And it sucks a lot to double him up. I *think* it's a slightly losing play by like -30 chips or so but protects us a little bit from getting run over.I don't think that checking behind is superior(or that much worse), most turns we are not happy to see. And I think we get flatted by worse.

DexM's picture
Minraise is ok w/ 18bb eff.

Minraise is ok w/ 18bb eff. deep if he has indicated willinges to 3bet you. On the flop, according to your description I would check back the flop and re-evaluate on the turn. What was his aggr. stats on betting turn / river ? I can assume pretty high? I think I would just call his turn / river bets down, if the board doesnt show up anything too ugly. As played : Close ur eyes, shove and hope he doesnt snapcall you w/ T5o.

jaburuw's picture
I would just flat to maintain his bluffs

Pre im minraising calling his shoves.If he is agressive, you can expect him to XR in a lot of paired flops. Shure he can have some draw, but the 88 in your hand make it a little less likely. If he got you, he got you in this spot, you can´t fold against an agressive opponent in this stack depth unless you have some kind of timing or sizing reads. So, I don´t think jamming over is best because he will fold the part of his range that are bluffs and you can´t fold either. So, imo, calling to keep him bluffing is the best. :)

Vasthegreek's picture
im min-3betting, calling 4bet

im min-3betting, calling 4bet jam there. i dont like flating, put as in difficult turns as every card above 5 and any club completes posibly his drawing range. we hold 88 deffinatly makes it unlikely villain to hold 89 but this is a tiny part of his range. Its a closing decision, but i think its slightly most profitable to play back at those spots with a value hand, balances the times uve got air and make a play imo.

Ravzar's picture
Like what everyone else said,

Like what everyone else said, against someone who isn't calling open shoves light but is pretty aggressive preflop I normally min raise with pocket pairs when effective stacks are low. I then call any shove or I play postflop and normally get it in due to stacks being so short. If I think they will call me though I will just open shove preflop... or if I have open shoved preflop the last few hands I just tend to do it again to send the message I am doing this light (when in actual fact I am not.. I mean I am doing it light but I am not doing it with ATC like I hope they think I am - since players don't understand push/fold play at micro - medium stakes).. normally get called pretty loosely at this point. Against some players I would also limp pocket pairs when we are this short. I do this if they always raise my limps but won't raise my raise or won't call a shove. If they shove over my limps or 3 bet them then I will let them do this then shove over the top.

Barrin's picture
How much EV have you gain by

How much EV have you gain by choseing this move over the open-shove?

Hi.

Ravzar's picture
I don't have enough sample

I don't have enough sample size of doing each to compare EV - you would likely need to play millions of hands in order to get into this type of situation enough of the time then you would need to have a good sample size of playing both ways vs the same villian type. I just go on villian type and whether I think I can exploit them more by open shoving or by min raising preflop. I feel like if they are very tight against my shoves I am getting less value from a pocket pair like 8s than if I limp in or min raise and have them call me with a wide range and allow them to shove with draws/make mistakes postflop. At the end of the day though if you are playing a decent opponent I do think just doing the standard shove/fold is better - it's just that against some opponents I feel like I can exploit them by playing pots with them. I should point out that I am far more of a timing tell/read/'feel' player than a maths player. I look at pot odds/implied odds obviously but I don't go nuts with the maths... but I should look more into the maths since I am likely missing out on small amounts of value in spots. If I thought I was playing as well as I could I wouldn't have signed up to have a look at this site.