QQ 25NL

Posted 8 years ago

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Opponent is tight and seems solid.

Can I fold the river?

I think my play pre and on the flop is fine. I think betting the turn with the intention of folding to a raise / checking back river is also okay.

On the river I decided to call as I'm at the top of my range and under-repped given how I played. However I expect him to have AA here most of the time.

What's the best way to play this hand?
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Posted 8 years ago*
The turn check is the villain going for the stack a donk line with a c-shove.

My default line on the turn is to make a very small bet around $3-4 to get them to call with overcards and other drawy type hands like say A5s, if shoved on I'd be like oh "you have AA, thanks for making it easy for me" and fold.
Posted 8 years ago
Agree with Harvie here. We want to bet the turn to get some calls from worse pairs and maybe AK. Half pot on the turn makes sence to set up stacks for the river and get max value from the hands we beat. Im not super worried about getting c/r a high % here since its not a line they usually takes esp not when the turn pairs the board and there is very few draws.

If he plays c/c on the turn too Im all for jamming river for value on the blanks since even tough he is tight. Think this line of the Villian is more AK than AA KK.
Posted 8 years ago
I guess here we just thank villain for not taking more money.

Pre: I like your call of the three bet here, four betting would be a mistake IMO.

Flop: Pretty standard when we are checked to here.

Turn: I see no reason to slow down here, I would be firing once more. We can still get value from TT/JJ type hands. IT we get jammed on then so be it but as played I would not expect this to be happening too often.

River: Folding here seems out of the question to me as played here.
Posted 8 years ago
I agree with Harvie about the small turn bet. Use your position against him to force him to define your hand. 25-30-%pot will make him call with AK a decent amount, and it's unlikely he ever jams expecting you to fold an overpair. If he does jam then obv we can hero fold.

As played though the river is interesting. At these stakes I wouldn't expect most regs to turn AK AQ into a bluff making the call possibly thin. It's easy to say oh we can't fold for this price with this hand, but what does he ever play this way that we beat? He's check calling the flop with something; usually a slowplay or AK AQ, rather than JTs or the like.