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Improved draw on the turn, high stakes no limit cash
Game type: 50/100 No Limit Heads Up, Full Tilt Poker
Your image: Aggressive
Opponent’s image: Running well, also aggro
Your hand: 5♥3♥
This hand is based on one that took place between whitelime and guatchos. You’ll be standing in for whitelime. Thanks to high stakes report for the hand history.
The setup: This has been a tough back and forth match so far when the following hand comes up. The SB raises 3x and you re-raise to 1100. The SB four bets to 3,100 total and you call. You flop an open-ended draw:
6♦4♥6♣
You lead for 4k into into 6700. The SB calls. You turn a flush draw:
9♥
It’s your action. What’s your play?
Loading …4.9.08 / 12am
Damned, I really don’t get HU poker.
Anyway, I voted lead to follow up on the maniac play up till now.
4.9.08 / 12am
check call is veeeeeery weak. Check-raise gives the opponent the right odds to call with any reasonable hand…so I like lead…and lead strong in order to let him know we aren’t going to give up the pot easily…if he calls we have decent outs to take the lead on the river
4.9.08 / 1am
Lead strong.. Maybe even shove.
Definitely not a check call, but a check raise is good.
I like check raise all-in, though I think given the images then youre opponent will almost definitely call with AA or KK. Still be a tough spot for him though given the possible trips or FH and you would sometimes get him to lay it down which is the result youre looking for, short of making a hand on the river.
I think youve either got to play strong or give up (nope) in this situation. Weak play like check calling is terrible, and if someone did draw out with a check call of 7.5k I would expect to see some abuse in the chat box.
4.9.08 / 1am
LEAD and hope show u r commited to the river so he doesnt make the check raise but the way we have played it is like an over pair so he might shove if he has a a high pair, but there are too many hand that he cud fold to a lead bet ak aq etc. so make a bet and put him to the test and hope we catch if he calls. But what do we do if he raises us on the turn and do we make a play at it if we miss. very tricky situation and we are out of posistion but thats not necessarly a bad thing if we play to the river.
4.9.08 / 4am
It seemed obvious that my opponent had a big pair…and that a fold on his part was unlikely. I don’t like gettin all-in on a draw when i know i’m gettin called.
4.9.08 / 6am
Good point ehull…but at this level of cash games a player should be capable of lay down an overpair if there’s to much action…it depends on our read on him to do this…
4.9.08 / 9am
This is WAY too wide of a range you are playing. Even small suited connectors is too loose. Play medium suited connectors (56s+) slightly higher one-gappers (68s+) and medium-high two-gappers (96s+) heads up. Always raise or fold when first to act preflop and don’t reraise with stupid hands.
Always make the continuation bet on the flop and always bet the turn when the flop goes check-check.
When you meet any kind of resistance give it up when you hold air and be very cautious with weak draws.
4.9.08 / 6pm
HU really is completely different from regular poker
Reraise with 53s wtf?!?
4.9.08 / 8pm
I think the action preflop and the flat call on the flop shows your opponent obvs has an overpair and is controlling the pot size until he can put the hammer down on the turn if a blank falls. leading a harmless nine will put you in a tough spot when your raised by the overpair. Check-Calling is pretty weak only if its wrong to surrender the lead in the hand, but I think clearly with the fourth bet preflop by the button, HE has the lead so with 25k behind, I think check calling, and then either folding a miss or value betting a made river is a good line. Its going to be hard to fold a 1/4 too 1/2 the pot bet on the riv with any big pair, and it isnt smart to walk into an obvs overpair trap if you whiff your 15 outs.
10.22.08 / 12am
YOU HAVE 15 OUTS 90% of the time.
GIVING U 55% to 58% . RAISE THAT TURN HARD. WORST CASE HE HAS 3 6’s and u still have 15 outs. or slightly less making it a coin. BET THE TURN HARD
10.22.08 / 12am
EVEN IF HE SHOWS AA ID GO ALL IN u slight favorite. lets say he has AA and u push - WANNA RUN THIS HAND A MILLION TIMES AND SEE HOWS PROFIT?
10.22.08 / 12am
i love all the stupid comments from ppl who do not understand the math behind the game.
HES HOLDING A BIG PP SOO I DONT LIKE GETTING IT IN ON A DRAW. POKER IS ALL VARIANCE BUDDY. ALWAYS GET UR MONEY IN WITH THE BEST HAND 5% favorite or 90% favorite DOESNT MATTER. OVER TIME YOU WILL WIN. MAYBE HE HAS 99 and he thinks u have AA. But regardless ur favorite.
4.8.08 / 8pm
This is a tricky spot. If you check, most bets that your opponent will make will offer you decent odds to call. The pot is large enough that you might not have a lot of fold equity with a checkraise. Most leads will put you in a spot where you’ll be getting proper odds to call a raise.
I like a lead because you seem to have the best chance at picking up the pot, and it’s consistent with how you’d likely play a made hand in this spot.
What actually happened Whitelime checked and gautchos bet 7,550. Whitelime checkraised all in and gautchos called, showing AA. Whitelime hit the straight on the river and raked the pot.