Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Gotta love that Turn

Starting a new hand (#1263649108)
Texas Holdem NL $1/$2 - 2008-11-11 10:54:23 Server
Table Mamadysh (No DP)
Seat 1: katazrofi80 ( $215 )
Seat 2: thesantaclaus ( $217.85 )
Seat 4: Hero ( $286.60 )
Seat 5: hansruza ( $76 )
Seat 6: BourneReady ( $198 )
Seat 9: OriEy ( $228.85 )
BourneReady posts Small Blind $1
OriEy posts Big Blind $2
Dealing cards
Your cards Ts Jc [Hero]
katazrofi80 folds
thesantaclaus calls $2
Hero calls $2
hansruza folds
BourneReady folds
OriEy checks
Dealing Flop 8d 9d 7s
OriEy checks
thesantaclaus bets $7
Hero raises $22
OriEy folds
thesantaclaus calls $15
Dealing Turn 8d 9d 7s 5h
thesantaclaus bets $40
Hero raises $262.60
thesantaclaus goes All-in $153.85
Dealing River 8d 9d 7s 5h Qs
thesantaclaus shows 8c 6c
Winner is Hero $504.45
#EOG.

4 comments:

parttimebonuschaser said...

hehe nice.

whats your thinking behind the shove on the turn rather than a sizeable reraise, planning to get it all in to a 3bet or on the river?

TiocfaidhArLa said...

Turn bet-sizing wasn't as shovey as it looks. A pot-sized raise has Santa AI anyway. By me pushing AI, it looks more like I don't want a call.

His $40 may have been a dbl barrel, 2-pair, trips, str8, str8 draw or flush draw. The board was still susceptible to a diamond or pair.

A min-raise would give him the pot odds to call and try to hit.

In reality, I hit "pot" and the figure had him AI anyway, so let's charge him for his draw. If he'd folded, I wouldn't have been unhappy as he would have been a draw often enough to make the free/cheap card a mistake.

As it worked out, the 5h was perfect!

The blindman said...

How do you play if it's 5d instead of h?

TiocfaidhArLa said...

If he had hit a flush, his $40 bet would be consistent with that. I think then I go for pot control and call it down regardless of river bet-size, unless there is a 4th diamond in which case I'd let it go.

That is a trickier spot though and calling down may be a leak in my NL game. On the other hand, not calling down may be a bigger leak.

Great question ... So much to learn.