$1000 NL HE Full Ring: WILD $5-$10 FULL TABLE NLH

[Blintzblyck]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Stakes

$5/$10

Table Format

Full (8-10 seats)

AF

0

Currency

$

In a line up where raises are called with trash much of the time. 200 BBs effective and open raises for 20 BBs UTG with TT. Only the button calls. Flop is A A 7 suited. Hero checks and V bets the pot. Call once or fold?

 

[Station_Master]

Very much villain dependent but in general fold. Better to cbet small in this spot

 

[YLAN]

Call twice. As u said, raises are called with trash much of the time. You're not confident with your read?

 

[Blintzblyck]

This time I lost to a trashy Ace. The interesting question is, how much?

 

[Station_Master]

Tell us then? Did you call more streets also

 

[Blintzblyck]

The bad news is that the flesh is weak and I ended up overpaying for information that should have been had at wholesale. The good news is I recovered the loss with interest on succeeding rounds. If the game wasn't soft, I would not have sat down. But it's still necessary to stifle one's ego and know when to let it go! Hard to get confident reads on online players. At least that's been my experience. And using a HUD was disallowed.

 

[EarnDAStack]

Why did you decide to RFI for 20bb? I'm pretty sure that's too big even with a straddle

I think you kind of put yourself in the box here with this one.
Opening to such a large sizing really makes it easy on the people who are playing behind you. They are only going to continue with hands that have really good equity and play well post flop while being able to assume you have a fairly good hand and will probably be looking to put more money in the pot post flop, which will also make their lives easier as they will be able to choose is and when to play for your full 200bb stack while having position on you.

I would imagine his calling range would have a large amount of suited Aces, off suit Ax and some pocket pairs, some suited broadways mixed in maybe but your preflop sizing probably priced them out.

vs that given range the flop is pretty bad for you, I'm not sure if the play would be to check or to bet given what we perceive his range make up to be, I think it would be heavily weighted towards Ax but we're uncapped and opened from EP with a huge bet sizing indicating a lot of strength.

Once facing the bet I think the decision depends on what you think villain is doing with hands like pocket pairs that called, both above and below your TT holdings.


As played I think the fold is the best option, You beat 88 and 99 on this flop and they probably don't start betting pot as you might still be uncapped.


Size up to 6 7 and 8bb if your table is full of loose passive players, don't make their decisions easy the point of poker is to make their lives hard

 

[Ianmacca99]

Way too big of a size pre flop. This can't be the standard open size?

I mean even the play from villain is poor calling firstly with a trashy ace then betting pot on this board. He would be much better betting small to keep hands like yours in and in the instances he's beat. you could easily have AQ AK here and dominate him. The standard line wouldn't usually be to check those types of hands though so can usually be eliminated from your range.

I would of personally bet small on flop, while this board is bad for your actual hand it is good for your range and you need to reflect this otherwise every time you open a pocket pair below an A and are faced with a A high board and check your opponents can be aggressive and get you off hands as your hand is turned face up as a low to medium pocket pair. If he raises your flop bet he is unlikely to be bluffing as you have nut advantage and should have all the AK, AA in your range