Nl10z - Thoughts on the play?

Nl10z - Thoughts on the play?

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 103.7 BB (VPIP: 26.53, PFR: 21.09, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 147)
Hero (SB): 134.6 BB
BB: 228.1 BB (VPIP: 26.35, PFR: 20.95, 3Bet Preflop: 7.94, Hands: 150)
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 19.27, PFR: 17.43, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 111)
MP: 208.7 BB (VPIP: 29.03, PFR: 19.35, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 31)
CO: 149.8 BB (VPIP: 42.86, PFR: 28.57, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 7)

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 A

fold, MP raises to 2.4 BB, fold, fold, Hero raises to 8 BB, fold, MP calls 5.6 BB

Flop: (17 BB, 2 players) Q 9 8
Hero bets 5.8 BB, MP calls 5.8 BB

Turn: (28.6 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero bets 13 BB, MP calls 13 BB

River: (54.6 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 107.8 BB and is all-in

30 March 2025 at 08:38 AM
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Bad 3bet size, random bluff


I think 3b larger, either give up flop, or bet larger on the flop and give up turn.


Don't really like it, I think you really want him to have an ace when the river is a king. When we have an ace, it's less likely he has AJ/AT/A9 so we're not getting nearly as many snap folds. That means his range will be composed of more Kx (KJ/KT) and Qx hands blocking a straight that might get curious.

I would bet that GTO checks this flop at a high frequency and our drawless ace high overcard seems like a good hand to check with.


Flop cbet is whatever, would not go very large. Seems like give up after tho


by haha_TP

Don't really like it, I think you really want him to have an ace when the river is a king. When we have an ace, it's less likely he has AJ/AT/A9 so we're not getting nearly as many snap folds. That means his range will be composed of more Kx (KJ/KT) and Qx hands blocking a straight that might get curious. I would bet that GTO checks this flop at a high frequency and our drawles

Makes sense. I think I overplayed it. He snapped w AK lol


3-betting here is reasonable if you have good postflop ability. Sizing should be a little bigger though. Flop is an easy check fold. Turn and river are quite a punt. Not reasonable bluffs at all.


I don’t think flop is pure check (or give up as soon as it hits)


3bet larger pre to like 10.5/11bb, I don't like range betting on this board texture. If you had backdoor spades and picked up equity on turn I'd barrel but as played it's probably a give up on turn, but I'd be sizing a bit bigger also on that flop if you was going to bet flop


i think flop hits his range harder then ours.


by harman187

Makes sense. I think I overplayed it. He snapped w AK lol

If V is calling you down with AK on that flop and turn you just learned one of two things. V is a calling station or V sees you as bluffing a great deal more than GTO.


When we 3bet to 8bb villain can just peel super wide. I'd go like 10bb minimum.

Flop is really bad to c-bet imo. We have basically no draws, no backdoor equity, we unblock a ton of stuff he would call with, and not sure if hitting an ace is even good. Also the board should connect with a 3bet calling range in position pretty solidly. We have showdown value so we shouldn't really be firing off here.

The rest is straight up spew imo.

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