The rules are just say what you would do and why!

Recap (I min-raise opened A8o in the cutoff and the big blind defended. This is a 33 dollar 7k gurantee turboment!)

Villain min donk bets 300 into us! Hero ??

Nice thread!

My first thought was to flat to allow villain to bet the turn and bomb off. Also raising could just get a ton of folds.

However i think raising can be really good here for the following reasons:

1) will look like air as theres not a huge amount we can raise in these spots apart from bluffs
2) villain can easily spazz ship over it
3)villain can have 2 pair, straight draw, flush draws or even combos so we can get it in vs these hands

I think i would raise and my sizing would be pretty small. 725 total.

I'm raising here for balance and exploitation from his $300 to $1250. (also donking min into this pot is just...dfkgjdfkl)

a) most players realize that alot of players raise donkbets almost by default.

b) hes obviously donking with something(straight draw, flush draw, worse 8, a 6, overpair)....which in this case looks like something he might very well stack off with if hes a recreational player whos tired, had enough, or is just generally not the greatest player.

c) were providing him a shit price to flat with as hes never going to see the river due to the stack:pot ratio on the turn, where the pot will be 3790 and he will have 3725, giving him 2:1 on calling a jam, so hes probably shipping with whatever hes donking with, or calling the turn when he realizes that hes getting 2:1, because he didnt realize it would be like that when he called it on the flop , i dont know if you would have gotten much more value out of him anyways if he were to fold.

you can even raise more on the flop IMO to give yourself a more baller stack:pot on the turn, i think if hes calling hes calling anyways lol, doesnt really matter

what would you do if u had air in this spot? I think its an easy raise because his donk is so weak/tilting/annoying and will get folds really often. i think i put him on like a 22-55 type hand or 6x. i think fd are check shoving this board so maybe like a click back on flop and reassess turn?

Looks like a fish. I would prob raise the flop, he could go crazy with all sorts of stuff like 6x, small pockets, and lots of cards slows down the action, or make him not like his hand.

Hi all PokerVip members! I would like some feed back on a huge hand I played in the tournament Big 4.40 at Pokerstars,
Basic info before reading the hand,
-We where ITM
-Villan sarted with 47,5 BBs (190 000)
-Hero started with 67,5 BBs (270 000)
-Average ATM was 18BBs
-Heros image is aggressive

Handaction,
Blinds/antes is 2k/4k (315 ante)

HEROES hand = Ah6h

It gets folded to Villan in HiJack that opens to 9k
CO flats 9k open
Hero at Buttom 3bets to 25,5k
Villan flats OOP
CO folds

(69k atm in the pot)
Flop: 7s-5c-9c
Villan in HiJack checks
Hero checks back

Turn: 2d (7s-5c-9c-2d)
Villan bets out 30k into 69k
Hero calls 30k

(128 000 atm in the pot) Villan has 135k to the river Hero has 215k
River: 2s (7s-5c-9c-2d-2s)
Here Villan checks

Now my thought process,
Here I decide to shove all in and putting the pressure on him, because the hands I put on him here is AK,AQ, KQc,KJc,QJc (getting flushdraw on turn when he bets)
I don't think that he has a set when he checks on the river with the high possibility of me checking back with also hands like AQ or AK or maybe 88 or 66.
I also don't think that his flatting pre with AA or KK or QQ and plays the river that way

So when he checks and gives up I think that it's a good spot for me with Ah6h to bluff-shove putting him all in for a total 47 BB pot when the average was 18 BB

But it ends with that he calls off all in on river and shows up Jd7d
So he flatted OOP with J7s and called all in on river.

Can I get some thoughts about this hand I played

My first question is - what are you repping on the river when you check a wet-ish flop, call turn and jam when it looks like he's giving up?

If you had checked the river, your still beating hands like KQ, KJ. QJ, JT...

Villains call pre-flop was of course bad, but I don't like the river jam.

Cross thread code error? Or siiiiiickest bump ever to pull a out a rando 2 year old thread to post in?

As to the hand, I don't play tournaments much but I play them tight when I do. On the cheapo ones I play no-one ever folds a pair so bluff jamming air on the river when you hold some high card SDV doesn't sound good. Creative thinking and good thinking about his range as well but its just not a coherent story you are selling on your range I think. You are never playing premium hands this way are you? So it looks like what it is, a bluff jam with nothing hoping to buy the pot. Or a 2x I suppose.

Villains call pre is lols though. Unless he is a poker pioneer, developing a calling as a bluff strategy. Its a sick strategy, totally unsettles your range construction.

Glad you pointed out the age of this thread Paul!! I was going bat crazy reading the first few posts, guessing something from the OP is missing

haha I thought he maybe couldn't post a thread because he doesn't have enough posts. But this would be a random place to put it.

Yeah thanks for the feed back guys, I guess I don't rep that many hands I also thought that some minuts after the hand was played.