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Hello pokergods!
I’ve played a hand last night in a 2/4 (we only play 2/4 in Holland) live game. I wake up with AKo with the Ace of hearts on the button and it limps to me. I raise to 12 euro. Folds to the TAG who calls. The TAG is a obvious beginner since I saw him go all-in with nothing after which he completely shifted to TAG mode and not played anything for the last 45 minutes.
Flop comes 6QJ with 2 hearts. TAG fish bets 50, an over bet to the pot. However, looking at his play for a couple of hours I realises that he is not paying any attention to the pot or sizing whatsoever. I call with a back door flush draw and hoping for a K,A or hearts.
Turn comes 9 of hearts, bringing in the flush and straight draw.
Fish checks, I check back. This is maybe the spot where I should bet looking back at the hand. However, facing the bet on the flop against this type of player did put me in the dark on whether or not he has hit the flop. In the moment it seemed that he had a big hand and is trapping me.
River comes off suit A. I improve to top pair, top kicker. The board however is very wet since the fish could have hit everything giving the fact that he could have a monster hand Preflop or nothing at all.
He shoves and I go into the tank. Giving his line it seemed he wanted to trap me at the turn and shoved on the river to make sure I don’t check back again. After giving it some thought I decide to fold….
Later he showed 66 and made a set on the flop.
I am not sure if I played this hand correctly…I always have some trouble playing AK, especially against newer players where I don’t exactly know where I am with the AK and the wide range of the fish.
Hopefully you guys can give some advice in improving my play. Was the call on the flop a bad one…maybe…let me know!
The link to the replay; http://mysmp.me/h_ml2
I don’t see anything wrong with the way you played it. I think it’s pretty hard to be good here, especially given this play type.
Donk leads usually mean marginal strength hands/draws trying to set their own price. Pretty much every draw comes in. KT makes a straight (twice), and hearts come in as well. Only draw that misses is T9, and since he can’t have T9hh he’s probably not betting that.
There’s also the chance he’s betting 2-pair+ since he’s scared of the draws, which you obviously don’t beat. I’m sure there are some bluffs here that you beat, but I think this is a pretty easy fold since very few people are going to turn one-pair into a bluff out of position.
Thanks John for the reply. Im glad I played the hand okay. For some reason I wasn’t sure at the moment and I kept thinking about the hand afterwards… so I thought it might be a good idea to ask an opinion from a fellow player.
I think a flop fold would have also been acceptable. Just because he isn’t focused on sizing doesn’t mean you should. On the turn, check is good. River sucks when you think it’s a great card and he shoves.
This looks to be a very nitty game.
Preflop, I think we can raise a bit higher with all the dead money in the middle.
I think how you played it from there is fine for the reasons you’ve given. We can’t always be scared of the set, we have a hand with reasonable equity on this board, and we have position.
The over-card came on the river, which is better for your range, and villain still shows strength. This is an easy exploitative fold in my opinion.
You lost the minimum here. Nice fold.
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