TrueFriend

Hand 1

Effective stacks 175bb

Hero raises from the CO with QQ to 0,90
Villain 1 from the SB calls 0,90
Villain2 from the BB calls 0,90

Both villain are more or less calling stations.

FLOP J47 Pot 2,70

Both villains check
Hero bets 2,40
Villain 1 folds
Villain 2 calls 2,40

TURN 8 POT 7,50

Hero bets 5,00
Villain raises to 14,55

I fold pretty quickly. I think he has like 95% of time J8, 44, 77, 88 or 56.

Hand 2:

Effective stacks 150bb

Hero raises from the BTN to 0,40 with KQ
Villain reraires from the BB to 1,30
Hero calls 1,00

Winning regular, I suppose he has some light 3-bet hands so this is a standard call.

FLOP QJ10 pot 3,00

Villain bet 1,80
Hero calls 1,80

Standard.

TURN 8 Pot 6,60

Standard.

Villain bets 3,80
Hero calls 3,80

9 POT 21,00

Villain checks
Hero bets 7,10
Villain raises all-in

To be honest, I am really considering checking the river. I have a very paranoid feeling about my opponent having AK and when he pushes I am almost sure that he has it. On the other hand, he might be raising with the K too.

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After thinking about the second hand I am almost sure that checking would have been the best play on the river. We have showdown value, and our villain is not calling with the worse. Betting and calling the all-in was a huge mistake.

Checking that river would be a huge mistake...

Straight on the board.... Villain betting a lot on AK himself...

Checking misses out on so much EV it's unreal. We also have AK here so us betting AK, KQ for value and then bluffing some Ax hands that block AK works well. With that trat I would probably above knowing villain can't really do much but lose in the long run v my betting range. we bet to allow us to semibluff as well as winning a lot when he hero calls.

what did he had lol ?

at hand nr one with sets most of the time leads or check Raise , and i don't think he ever call a str-draw on that flushy board

In the second hand he had AK. About the second, I have been in situation like that so many times lately (and lost every time) that I do not want to give calling stations value when raise. And yes, they call with str-draws in situations like that. Calling stations do not care if there is a flush draw on the board or not. Maybe its a leak, but let´s see how this goes.

Woops! When I talk about calling station I mean the hand one, not the hand two.

TrueFriend: In the second hand he had AK. About the second, I have been in situation like that so many times lately (and lost every time) that I do not want to give calling stations value when raise. And yes, they call with str-draws in situations like that. Calling stations do not care if there is a flush draw on the board or not. Maybe its a leak, but let´s see how this goes.

Find it hard to believe you have been in loads of situations where the runout puts a straight on the board, in a 3b pot, and you have a higher straight in the boards AND they always turn up with the nuts.

Checking here would be a massive mistake. I would be shoving my entire betting range here with all kx in my value range and from that work out how many bluff combos I can have. Best thing is we could bluff with 100% of our bluffs as we chop a very high % of the time.

No, I mistakenly talked about second hand when I ment the hand number one. I have been in position like that lately the opponents have shown a ton of sets in these situations. Dunno if it is variance or are they really playing only sets in this way.

I seeeee, yeah I mean he is probably bluffing some of the time and we do have equity v sets. We are getting what like 4:1. It's probably quite close and I wouldn't say calling is going to be bad

I really hate to put my whole stack in risk with only one pair, but maybe you can not completely avoid it if you want to play

There is a mistake in that QQ hand. The seven is actually a spade, not a club. It means that we have no flush draw there. Sorry for that, it happens sometimes when you write everything by your own hands.

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