$800 Aria a few spots
A few spots that I wasn't quite sure about.
First spot. Villain seems a bit splash. He has checkraised a few times on the flop and it has usually worked against other player. We haven't seen him shown down anything crazy.
Blinds 15K/25K/25K
Hero 525K
Villain Covers (about ~900k)
Preflop: Hero has J♣ T♣ in CO (7 handed)
We raise to 55K, BB defends
Flop: T♠ 7♠ 4♦
Villain checks, Hero bets 40K, Villain raises to 110K, Hero shoves
(I thought that there are basically no turn cards that I am happy to see, except maybe a 2 or 3) and we are going to be going with the hand unless a spade comes on the turn. There is a chance that this player might be checkraising something random just a piece of the board).
Second Spot:
I wrote this one down in BBs
We are getting close to the money (maybe 20 away at this point) and we are new to the table.
Hero has 21BB, Villain covers (45BBish)
Preflop: Hero has A♣ J♥ UTG
We raises to 2.1BB, 2 folds, Villain 3 bets to 5.25BB, folds back to Hero and we.....?
It's such a small raises, but I really can't call here and fold on a J or A flop. Is this too weak to be fold here (I thought I might be getting pushed around some of the time)? People were doing all kinds of wonky things in this tournament. I saw a few times players would 3 bet 1/3 of their stack and fold to a shove. I couldn't believe how many times I saw that happen.
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First one is fine. Second one with no reads on villain I'd default to fold given the positions.
H1 good. H2- I would fold unless sizing was super small. AJo is just too vulnerable to a 3 bet when folks don’t 3! Enough in live game. I call AJ suited but fold AJo. Maybe if villian is super aggro we can call. I would call AQo but not AJo. Might ship AQo honestly though based on stack size.
1st hand we are not happy to see a 3 either (vs 56). We are happy to see a T or 2... I like your jam.
2nd hand I would call and get it in if a J or A hits the flop. I also will get it in with QT8/T98/QT9/KQT/T97/T87 and 3 cards in either of our suits. We are getting like 3:1 pot odds so I think we hit a pair > 25% of the time on the flop. If they have KK/QQ/AK/AQ so be it.
I disagree with the flop jam the other guys are advocating, like I get it, but there’s a bunch of stuff he does this with that we are drawing dead against.
Yeah he has plenty of draws and monsters but I see this check raise pretty frequently with AT,KT,QT too, any of which has us dead.
As played now, it feels dumb AF and I’ll probably get flamed but I guess I’m calling the 2bb raise and seeing what happens on the turn.
Feel like we could check back this hand/flop sometimes for deception and pot control off 20bb.
2nd hand it really looks like he’s trying to eek more chips out of your little stack. You raised UTG don’t think any shame in folding here unless BB is a total muppet.
What are you hoping to happen on the turn in hand 1?
What does the BB have to do with hand 2?
heh, I figured. if it's 9-handed villain is 3-betting an UTG raise from LJ, with 3 people behind him still, vs. what should be a tight opening range from you. so I think folding AJo is fine-- unless you have reads he's a wide 3-better who will have like any Ax suited here or a lot of suited (or even unsuited) Broadway hands.
Not hoping for anything tbh, but off the top of my head; if it’s a spade and he’s got value he may slow down, if it’s a scare card like an osA and he keeps blasting well I might be more inclined to think he’s drawing. His sizing may be weird again indicating he’s just ****ing around.
H1: Seems well-played to me, shoving all of my Tx here as played except for T7s (my default weakest Tx open here from 20ish BB CO) which is strong enough to trap.
H2: UTG v LJ 3b need to play a very tight continuing range here, AJo too weak to call and would just let it go. Assuming we are vs a balanced opponent it is better to structure some of our 4b shove bluffs around Axs wheel combos over AJo. Just keep in mind we want to limit those 4b bluffs vs the OMC’s.
