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Fold pre. All in turn

Because of the bet sizing of the preflop and post flop action, this hand looks good.

If 6 betting pre might be good then folding pre is certainly terrible. I also feel you have to shove turn with that type of read.

On July 13 2012 14:08 NMcNasty wrote: If 6 betting pre might be good then folding pre is certainly terrible. I also feel you have to shove turn with that type of read.

Yea folding pre is never an option, I cold 4bet with this hand specifically to play back to a 5bet from either villain. I actually ended up getting reverse implied and villain had ac9c. But my main question was the turn. I wasnt sure if i was able to call for direct odds, and just c/f all brick rivers. Because i felt that if he had any piece of the board, he wasnt going to dump his hand. Which also raises the question. If we are playing for hand equity instead of fold equity on this turn... Should we always be leading rivers that improve our hand? Given that villain might check behind a fair amount of his range that isnt complete air.

you havent really said anything about the flop. it might help for you to write out your thought process on his range and how he'll play his hands and how c/c the flop in a 5b pot oop with just a gutshot vs his range can be good and then the rest of the answers should probably fall into place. seems like you just clicked buttons on flop tbh from what your asking

On July 16 2012 02:24 PoorUser wrote: you havent really said anything about the flop. it might help for you to write out your thought process on his range and how he'll play his hands and how c/c the flop in a 5b pot oop with just a gutshot vs his range can be good and then the rest of the answers should probably fall into place. seems like you just clicked buttons on flop tbh from what your asking

a flop call seems very standard to me since we are calling a 5bet. it can't be profitable to call 5bets then fold 70% of the time to a flop cbet. Imo, if we arn't calling this flop then we cant call a 5bet.


@handbanana. i think leading on rivers they will check behind can be a good idea. on a 10 i think it's very likely they will check back overpairs and jacks. The value of this depends on how often they 2 barrel.

it's Really player dependant for this sort of stuff tho, gotta go on feel and reads for what type of player they are. some will use the river clubs/T to bluff on with a range that is wider than their 2barrel for value then check back on a 10-range.

edit: from what i can see in the hand i would be c/c all the way on pretty much any river because just from the flop/turn sizing it looks like setting up 3 barrel bluffs in 4bet+pots is his style.

this is some very interesting stuff that i would like to do some analysis on but in middle of session atm, will revisit this tho.

On July 16 2012 02:24 PoorUser wrote: you havent really said anything about the flop. it might help for you to write out your thought process on his range and how he'll play his hands and how c/c the flop in a 5b pot oop with just a gutshot vs his range can be good and then the rest of the answers should probably fall into place. seems like you just clicked buttons on flop tbh from what your asking

I actually felt the flop was by far the easiest street to play. I really dont see any other play other than calling. I think c/r any value range on a board that dry is pretty meh. And given the psr I dont mind the flop going check check. , since i can bet turn shove river pretty effortlessly.

I think everyone would be surprised how solid these guys are at 1/2 on stars. You also have to consider. Alot of these guys played 5/10 and what not and had to drop down in stakes like everyone else. And Alot of the 2/4-3/6 regs just like me have to play every limit just to get like 20-24 decent games going late at night. So we arent talking about pushovers here.

thing is you guys have only really said that the 'games are tough and ppl are good, can't just fold' through all of those lines of text you've put down.

you haven't posted any sophisticated thought process ie range analysis

I think this is a common thing for players when they feel overwhelemed. but the leak is apparent to 3rd parties reading the thread.

like why should you continue in the hand on the flop? what if you got one of the (majority of) turns which don't improve your hand? why do you expect this specific villain to be on a bluff or not..