Replay hand review

[maronza1]

https://www.replaypoker.com/hand/replay/1173825745

This hand was played at replay, and was between me and @mattiebumpo. I'm not posting this hand as a way to expose anyone's weakness or strength here, I'm posting it as a way to learn more from you. If you were mattie (villain), how were you going to handle all stages of this poker hand? Did I (hero) play this hand the way you could have played it?

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
Standard open.

Flop
When we flop the nuts, we want to be able to play for stacks. And for that reason you should bet larger on the flop than just 1.000 into a pot of 5.000. A larger flop bet builds the pot, so that the turn and river bets get larger as well in chips but not in % of the pot.

Turn
Half pot is better but still to small.

River
This is a bad card, because it puts a 1-liner, which makes it more difficult to get paid. On a clean card maybe you could still have gotten stacks in by overbet jamming, but on this card you have to size down to get called by worse.

Your opponents cards are not shown in the replay, so impossible to say, what they should have done.

 

[maronza1]

Preflop
Standard open.

Flop
When we flop the nuts, we want to be able to play for stacks. And for that reason you should bet larger on the flop than just 1.000 into a pot of 5.000. A larger flop bet builds the pot, so that the turn and river bets get larger as well in chips but not in % of the pot.

Turn
Half pot is better but still to small.

River
This is a bad card, because it puts a 1-liner, which makes it more difficult to get paid. On a clean card maybe you could still have gotten stacks in by overbet jamming, but on this card you have to size down to get called by worse.

Your opponents cards are not shown in the replay, so impossible to say, what they should have done.

Thanks for your review, I bet 1bb because I did not want to chase the vil from the pot, to see whether the vil has something or not. Since I realized that vil got something, I started to bet bigger, it's bigger because the blinds were high. If I had bet more than that maybe the vil could have folded.

River is a bad card yes, but if the vil could have had Q9 maybe the vil could have jammed on the flop, if not, could have folded on the turn. On the other side, mattie made a bad call on the river as she absolutely is beaten by a lot of cards here, calling with a middle pair on this board is very bad.

It actually costed her the place in the money. I think a fold on the turn could have saved some chips for her. As there is no any card that may improve her hand.

I stand to be corrected guys

 

[Vallet]

I would play as follows. Protecting the big blind and the flop. The bet is small, so I have a good chance to make a call. Turn is a street for thinking. You bet half the pot. My range of hands is getting significantly smaller. I'm protecting a good hand or a strong draw. On the river, the bet is again half the pot. If the spades card had come, then there would have been an opportunity for bluffing and it would have become more difficult for you. I will only call with a very strong combination like three of a kind or J8 spades.
You can only be bothered with one hand of the Q9, but you block it.

 

[fundiver199]

Thanks for your review, I bet 1bb because I did not want to chase the vil from the pot, to see whether the vil has something or not. Since I realized that vil got something, I started to bet bigger, it's bigger because the blinds were high. If I had bet more than that maybe the vil could have folded.

Thinking like this is a common beginner mistake. The purpose of betting the flop is not to "find out if the opponent has something". If they have nothing, they are not going to play a big pot anyway, and it does not matter, if they fold on the flop or later. The important is to win the most, when they have something, that is strong enough to pay you off. On a dynamic board like this its also important to get some chips into the pot, before the board change in some way. Your hand could not improve, so there was no benefit to seeing another card cheaply.

 

[maronza1]

Thinking like this is a common beginner mistake. The purpose of betting the flop is not to "find out if the opponent has something". If they have nothing, they are not going to play a big pot anyway, and it does not matter, if they fold on the flop or later. The important is to win the most, when they have something, that is strong enough to pay you off. On a dynamic board like this its also important to get some chips into the pot, before the board change in some way. Your hand could not improve, so there was no benefit to seeing another card cheaply.

OK got it! Time to improve my game

 

[eetenor]

OK got it! Time to improve my game

A good lesson is to use GTO Wizard free version and look at this hand all the way to the river---you get one free hand everyday. While gto will not teach you how to play max value exploit vs these player types it will give you a very strong idea of why you can bet bigger on this flop. By showing you the call range of the BB on this flop type.