(Sort of LC) Why you bet good hands against donks ($27)

[taipan168]

No HUD stats on opp yet, but he/she had cold called an UTG 4x BB raise and a 12x BB re-raise with T8s and hit his/her magic flop first hand.

This is why you just...keep...betting against these idiots.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (8 handed) Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

BB (t1480)
UTG (t1790)
UTG+1 (t1470)
MP1 (t1470)
MP2 (t1650)
CO (t1470)
Button (t2700)
Hero (t1470)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 6, J.
3 folds, MP2 calls t30, 1 fold, Button calls t30, Hero completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t120) Q, 6, 6 (4 players)
Hero bets t80, BB folds, MP2 folds, Button calls t80.

Turn: (t280) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets t180, Button calls t180.

River: (t640) J (2 players)
Hero bets t500, Button calls t500.

Final Pot: t1640

Results below:
Button has 2h Ac (two pair, sixes and twos).
Hero has 6c Jc (full house, sixes full of jacks).
Outcome: Hero wins t1640.

[mattiesmat]

He had a pair and top kicker!
Nice hand.

[fjuanl]

I love leading with trips

[FlyingSaucy]

milking a goat.
My only objective in this hand is to figure out if he has a Q to determine how much he's willing to call down.

[JeffreyGB]

Do you think players will notice if you bet larger than "normal" here? I think you left a lot of chips on the table by not making PSBs against the donkalicious-station.

Ex. If you bet 120 on the flop, turn pot is 360. Bet 300-360 and river pot is 960-1080. Perfect for a 1k-ish shove. Instead of making 900 chips, you make 1500.

[taipan168]

Do you think players will notice if you bet larger than "normal" here? I think you left a lot of chips on the table by not making PSBs against the donkalicious-station.

Ex. If you bet 120 on the flop, turn pot is 360. Bet 300-360 and river pot is 960-1080. Perfect for a 1k-ish shove. Instead of making 900 chips, you make 1500.

It's a good question and one that I was wondering myself. I remember reading in NLHET&P that making a larger bet is often +EV because over the long run even though you get called less, the larger amounts you win when you do get called compensate for this. I definitely should have bet a bit more on the flop, that would have exponentially increased the size of the pot on all subsequent streets.

[szamvan]

I am not really sure if Sklansky's thinking in NLHETP apply to SNG's . Overbetting the pot for stacking you opponent on the future streets is sometimes surely +cEV but it may be a pretty hard thing to figure out if its +$EV in an SNG. You basically make a kind of risk/chip-reward trade-off here which has to be analyzed somehow to suit the structure of an SNG (ICM?).

PS.: Pretty nice hand taipan I love those idiots ))