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  1. #1

    Default how would you play this?

    The button is being very loose. I believe i'm against a random hand. So my 6's figure to be good here. I don't want to get too many chips in pre as I could be a coin flip. If I don't hit my set i'm making a move at the pot. Either by betting out or check/raising the flop.

    Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (8 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

    saw flop | saw showdown

    Hero (SB) (t9420)
    BB (t8907)
    UTG (t8670)
    UTG+1 (t7495)
    MP1 (t8960)
    MP2 (t10585)
    CO (t7875)
    Button (t25240)

    Hero's M: 31.40

    Preflop: Hero is SB with 6, 6
    5 folds, Button raises to t700, Hero calls t600, 1 fold

    Flop: (t1600) 6, Q, 10 (2 players)
    Hero checks, Button bets t1000, Hero calls t1000

    Turn: (t3600) 10 (2 players)
    Hero checks, Button bets t2200, Hero raises to t7720 (All-In), Button calls t5520

    River: (t19040) 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

    Total pot: t19040
  2. #2
    this board is way too draw heavy to just c/c. a set is fairly vulnerable on this flop. to be honest i think preflop is close to a fold if you think villain is raising the button with almost any two. you simply wont get paid when you hit your set enough
  3. #3
    Don't post results. Def. raise the flop.
  4. #4
    I can't tell you what to do, but I think I would have attempted a re-raise after the flop to see what happened. The problem here is that there are 2 possible sets that can beat you. it's hard to lay down a set and think that someone else doesn't have one bigger than yours. It's entirely possible he had a Q here and ended up with trip Q, or even possible a pair of 10's and hit a quad. The only way to test it would have been to re-raise him after the flop. I'd say if he called it or re-raised your raise, it's time to fold it down.

    I've been on the positive side of this hand before (set of Ks vs a set of 10s - both hit on the flop, and since I had the top set, I played it well and when he re-raised me after the river I went all in on him and came out nice. I wouldn't want to be on the losing end.
  5. #5
    Don't be ridiculous; we're happily paying off TT/QQ.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  6. #6
    Set over set is 100 to 1. I'm paying off if it is. Quads??? Are you for real!!!The thing here is i'm pretty sure it's a random two cards. He's betting the flop evertime. He's open raising from highjack to button almost everytime. Against someone I got no reads on or more than one player I bet right out on the flop. The thing here is if I bet out he goes away if he got no part of the flop. Which is 2/3 of the time. If I check he's bets i'll say 75%-90%. If I check/raise the flop I think he gets away too easy. If he's on a draw he may take the free card.
  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by fjuanl
    this board is way too draw heavy to just c/c. a set is fairly vulnerable on this flop. to be honest i think preflop is close to a fold if you think villain is raising the button with almost any two. you simply wont get paid when you hit your set enough
    So our options here are call to set mine or fold?
  8. #8
    id be open to 3betting
  9. #9
    Here I got a pretty good hand. I figure if I get a set I trap. If I miss I either bet out on the flop or check/raise and take it down(pending on the flop). I'm playing very tight and think he's know it so any ace on the flop I bet out. I'm not playing the 6's for set value. But for the value of flopping a set against this guy. I don't 3bet here because it turns my big possible hand into a bluff. If I had 67s then maybe I 3bet. I'll get away with it this time too. I've got a super tight image. And pretty sure he's aware of that.
  10. #10
    well you got lucky because you were able to get it in on the turn and get called...still, you should raise this flop always...there are a lot of hands drawing live against you and...just as importantly, a ton of scare cards that can come on the turn to kill your action.

    We're not folding if a club or ace hits on the turn, but he may.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  11. #11
    Quote Originally Posted by baudib
    well you got lucky because you were able to get it in on the turn and get called
    I got lucky then he got lucky. I snared myself n the trap.

    Hero raises to t7720 (All-In), Button calls t5520

    River: (t19040) 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

    Total pot: t19040

    Results:
    Button had 10, 7 (full house, tens over sevens).
    Hero had 6, 6 (full house, sixes over tens).
    Outcome: Button won t19040
  12. #12
    With your reads on villain, I don't mind your play at all. The fact that a turn card could bring a scare card is actually good for you, in my opinion. An aggressive player is going to see a scary turn with air and bluff some more. Even if he manages to hit a straight or flush, you still have outs.

    So I think you played it fine and just got super-unlucky when he hit a river 7-outer (Q, T, or 7 and he's beating you). You were completely dominating his range on the flop and he had to hit runner-runner to beat you. And he did. There's not a whole lot you can do about it.

    All that said, I might play it a little differently. I like 3betting him here if he ever folds to a 3bet. Even if he doesn't, it's a lot easier for him to fold to aggression in a 3bet pot (unless he hits a monster) than in a pot that he raised and you called.

    Another place I might play differently is on the flop. You said that your plan was to bet out or check/raise the flop, and I like that idea. Even though we've hit a big hand, there are a lot of things we can do on the flop to exploit an aggressive opponent. We can make a donkish small bet on the flop that he will be super-tempted to raise. We can check/call and then donk the turn. We can check and then raise like one click more than a minraise: if he reraises, you can ship over, and if he calls you can lead small on the turn and make it look like a donk player trying to draw cheaply. These types of moves piss off players and from someone who's aggressive, you might get a lot of crazy bluffs that allow you to take down a huge pot on the flop or to stack off on the turn against a worse hand than trips, instead of having to take the line that you did here.

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