Seeking Advice on Interesting Hands

[LVRaiders2020]

NLHE 1-3 at Aria:

Hand #1: I have 10s10h in LoJack. My stack is $440 and I RFI $12. Button and BB call. Flop 3;10;K rainbow. I CBet $25. Button folds BB calls ($700 stack). Turn 10 for quads so Check to suck him in. River he bets $50. I raise to $150. He tanks & folds. Win $100. If I would have bet more on river would he have thought it a bluff?

Hand #2: I have 4h4s in LoJack ($390 stack). UTG+2 RFIs to $15 ($260 stack). I call along w\ Button, SB + BB. Flop 10h 7d 4d. Initial raiser bets $45. I raise to $145 b\c set w\ textured flop. Others fold. He calls. Turn 2d. I go All-In for same reason. He calls & turns over QsQh. River spikes a Q. Wow! Lose $260 to 2 out draw. Anything anyone would have done differently?

Hand #3: I RFI w KhKd to 4 limpers from SB (my stack $500+). Only UTG calls (old man, stack $270ish) Flop is Qc5d7s. I bet $20 & he calls. Turn is 4d. Not sure what the rock old man has so check & call his $50. Same on river. He has AA. Of course this rock didn’t 3Bet preflop. Lose $133, which I think was the minimum. Any thoughts?

[Dave Thompson]

Hand 1: A bigger raise on the river may have worked, but a smaller raise may also have worked. If you min-raise from $50 to $100, your opponent may find it nearly impossible to fold for such a good price with a king, for example. It wouldn’t be the big payoff we all dream of when we hit quads, but it would be $50 more than you actually won in the hand. Nothing wrong with going for more value with your quads though. 😉

Hand 2: I don’t see anything to do differently here. You were a huge favorite after the flop, you set the trap, and he fell into it. Unfortunately, sometimes you’re the victim of a 2-outer.

Hand 3: Yes I think you lost the minimum on that one. When you have an overpair out of position and you’re confused by your opponent’s actions, I think going into check-call mode is the prudent choice.

[Michael]

Hand 1: A guy last night on Stones Live turned his quads into a missed flush draw bluff-look-a-like shoving all in on the river (just short of pot sized). He got tank called by two pair. You can catch the re-run on YT, it was probably in the last half hour or so I think.

Depends on the competition though, I have tried moves likes a delayed (like I’m thinking about whether I should just call or raise) min-raise like Dave suggested. Some players will call off b/c math and some will sniff out the value bet of a strong hand and fold their decent bluff catchers.

Hand 2: Played perfect, got unlucky. You could go the nit route and refuse to put in more than x% of your stack unless you have a strong, made, 5-card hand — but are you here to be a nit or have fun going after value when you finally hit that set. Maybe check-call mode after front door flush draw arrives, but its not like you’re going to fold, right?

Hand 3: Your instincts were right when you didn’t check raise the turn and you lost the min on KK vs. AA, dry board.

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