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I’m playing a rush where I’ve been very active. I’m on semi tilt where I have to pay off a calling station that hit his top pair on the river for trip tens when I had QQ! I’ve also been raising a lot of hands (probably 12 out of 16 hands)with quality cards. I had been there 6 hours, I’ve had 26 pocket pairs, have seen 24 flops and never hit a set once! Stacks are 550 effective and villain has me covered.
So a tight aggressive early 20’s asain kid raises to 11 preflop utg+2, he gets 2 callers, I look down at 35offsuit and make the call out of the big blind. I looking for an open ended straight draw or two pair was my train of thought. Flop is Q53 two diamonds. He bets 15, one caller, I call, waiting to see what comes on the turn. An offsuit 2 turns, I check, he bets 35, I check raise to 90, he tanks for 2 minutes and is staring me down and he calls.
I’m going to stop here and wait for some replies before I continue with how this hand develops.raise the flop? seems like a dream flop for your defend in BB lol, can easily be beat on many turns, definitely many draws and top pair possibilities, I’d probably raise the flop to $55/65. (I’m no pro lol just a 1-2 grinder lol) at least you’ll be playing in positon against the bettor and caller.
I think with the one caller on the flop between you and villain I would definitely raise being OOP with very little room for improvement. If you peg him as tight and aggressive he’s going to c-bebt this with most of his range so the check is good and you currently have him crushed minus QQ (unless you think he’s opening 33, 55? Not so tight but very aggressive). At least the flop re-raise gives you a ton of info for the turn. It may kill your action a bit depending on the player.
The turn hits your range a lot heavier than his, so the re-raise is clear. If he’s tank calling that turn re-raise you know you’re good most of the time I think. Would he 3-bet QQ? Would he 3-bet AA, AQ, AK, KK, KQ?The best play is a gold preflop. You are not going to be profitable in the long run playing those hands.
As played i think it is fine. Checking on the flop is ok and check raising the turn is fine.
What kind of range do you put the villain on?check raising flop. Certainly when you play many hands. you defend the bb for a cheap price, so your range also has draws like 64, 42, A2, A4… you also have hands like 109 of diamonds, 108 of diamonds, 98 of diamonds… and so on and so on. So this is like your best value combo you will ever have here ( apart from Q5, Q3 and sets.) you should get money in on this street because there are no good turns for you. any diamond might stop the action or beat you, and if lets say a jack or a 10 rolls of you might be beat by 2 pair. the only hand we are actually scared of is QQ, and there are only 3 combo’s of that VS a lot of KQ, QJ,Q10… and of course some flush draws
If you are playing 35o OPP (eek), I would definitely check-raise flop when you hit that board. Too many scare cards for other higher two pair at the least.
So as this hand plays out, the 10d hits the river. At this moment I wasn’t too worried about this card, I’m putting him on AQo. He could have QQ, but I felt like it was just top top. But it does put me in a quandary about how much to bet. I rather quickly grab some chips, count out 70 dollars and push that into the pot. Which is about 260, I didn’t want to check, and I was concerned about betting more because of how much I still had behind. Villain hesitates for about 20 seconds, asks me how much I have behind, which was 360ish, hesitates another 20 seconds and announces all-in! Now I’m not so confident it’s AQo anymore. I’m doubting it’s QQ, it could be Axd or any hand containing the A of diamonds knowing that he held that card. He saw me make the hero call just a round earlier when the calling station hit his trips on the river. It really didn’t seem like a bluff, I tanked for over a minute and decided on a fold!
I have several questions, which I will get to after I get some responses.
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