Live £1/£1 with J-J

Posted 6 years ago

It was coming to the end of my session and I hadn't been running too well but managed to so far have a profitable session. We were playing £1/£1 with a straddle and occasional re-straddle. I have around £110 in front of me.

I was UTG+1 so I restraddled to £4. The table was full with 10 players and was quite weak with a few players who normally play smaller stakes.

There are 5 limpers including the button, SB and BB when UTG raises to £28 and I look down at J-J.

My options here are to either flat and play according to the board. Assuming nobody has limped with a monster. Or I could shove over the top. I don’t think a standard 3 bet would suffice given I would be committing at least is £52.

I do decide to shove and it folds around to UTG who calls. The board bricks out as 10-6-2-2-8 and even though I tell him I have Jacks he insists I turn them over before he turns over K-K to scoop the pot.

Is there anything here that anybody would have done differently once he has raised pre-flop? If I flat pre-flop then I am more than likely getting it in on the flop anyway but should I just be flatting here? My thinking was that he could easily have A-X in this spot and seeing all the limpers, there is a good case to represent and raise fairly big to take down a healthy pot.

Any thoughts on how I could have played this differently?

CycleVancouver

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Posted 6 years ago
I don't play live, but I personally don't think so. Maybe my thinking is wrong, but when you straddle to £4, you effectively become the new big blind. So the effective stacks are basically at 27bb, if we use your £110 stack. From what I have seen live, I don't really think his iso is overly big. It is 7x the straddle but he has 5 limpers in front of him. I don't really see how you could call, then some how fold the flop. 5 limps is £20 plus the £56 from UTG and you, so Pot would be £76 and you would have £82 behind. SPR is basically 1 and you will be stacking off on almost all flops. I guess only argument could be made is that if you got an A high flop then maaayyyybee you fold. I don't even know about that.

Seems fine to me, just looks like a cooler to me.
Posted 6 years ago
Only 1 mistake and that was to stradle Smile Dont put in 4% of your stack if you dont need to Smile If you think the table is weak you want the stacks : bb ratio to be as big as possible so you can use your skill advantage not turn it into a flip contest.

The rest is just a cooler. Like the previous said 27bb eff we just need to get it in.
Posted 6 years ago
Straddling is terrible, especially at these stack depths. There's almost never a reason to do it for table image, at lol low stakes live most V's just aren't smart enough for it to matter too much.

When it comes to posting live HH, you have to give us a read on your V, it makes all the difference. Is he a 50yo guy who has played 3 hands in the last hour? EZ fold, yes JJ is way behind he range here. Is he a young drinking guy who's there to gambool? Ship it.

Live is almost like a different game than online. So much to unlearn and relearn. Like most V's 3bet range is QQ+/AK, and many guys, it's only KK+.