Possible turn bluff spot, no limit MTT

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Game type: $50 freezeout, PokerStars
Stage of tourney: Midstages
Your image: Fairly tight
Opponent’s image: Aggressive, but solid
Your hand: 9♥6♣

The setup: You’ve been pretty quiet with your stack for the last few orbits and no one has a real reason to suspect you of getting out of line. This hand you get a garbage hand in the BB and see a flop when two players limp. Both have mixed in some limps previously.

You flop a gutshot:

8♦Q♠5♥

It checks around. The turn is the 2♠. What’s your play?

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samo2

Getting 2-1 with the image and recent silence, I’d take a stab here. It may cost a riv lead as well, but hero has some outs. The deuce could not have helped anyone but the hero. With the scattered board, villains could be slow-playing the Q on the flop, so fold to any raise.

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samo2 Reply:
October 30th, 2009 at 5:20 am

2-1 … I am assuming the lead is ~1/2 the pot.

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Tony G

We’re in the big blind, could have easily turned 2 pair or something with the 2 and nobody has shown any strngth so take a stab I say. Lead for 900-1000ish but fold to a raise

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Dan L

I lead here like all of the others. Does anyone else lead this on the flop sometimes too? I’ve been doing that occasionally with trash or draws and then also with sets or two pair. It sounds good in theory to me that people will either fold too much or pay me off those times I do have a hand, but I’m starting to think it’s spew.

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Sunshine

I suppose I’m a nit, but I’ve lost all interest in this hand, and I’ve only put 450 into it so far. I’ve got around what I would assume is an average stack size at this point in the tourney, it’s silly to me to do anything but check-fold. All queens and most 8s are going to call, and probably even people with 2 high cards (AJ, AK, A10, KJ, K10) and pairs between 8 and Q (99, TT, JJ).

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Bert

make sure if you fire the turn and miss you must fire river aswell

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catcher

I lead here, ragged and uncoordinated board that’s been checked around, and blank falls at turn – this is a perfect spot to try and pick it up from BB. And we have a gutshot to nuts on top of that. If someone repops, I’m outtahere of course.

Oh, and technically we haven’t put in anything, we got into the pot for free.

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J. Freeman

If you want any chance of representing a decent piece of that board you have to lead out. I personally play it tight and dont make the stab. Hopefully it stays cheap and I hit it. Doubt it. Or maybe I make a play at it…? I would have to have watched the flow of hands/action prior to, to know if its good to rob a pot or two with the tight face. Probably is.

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