10nl Full ring - Re-raise flop with pair and flush draw?
Villain is 20/9 after 55 hands
Would you re-raise the flop here with the aim of getting it all in whilst we have good equity or is it ok to just call his raise?
[converted_hand][hand_history]PokerStars - $0.10 NL - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by Holdem Manager 3
MP: $10.63 (106.3 bb)
CO: $10.83 (108.3 bb)
BTN: $12.88 (128.8 bb)
SB: $17.08 (170.8 bb)
Hero (BB): $10.25 (102.5 bb)
UTG: $7.44 (74.4 bb)
UTG+1: $10.15 (101.5 bb)
SB posts $0.05, Hero posts BB $0.10
Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Q♥ T♥
4 folds, BTN raises to $0.30, fold, Hero raises to $1.20, BTN calls $0.90
Flop: ($2.45, 2 players) A♥ Q♣ 7♥
Hero bets $0.77, BTN raises to $1.54, Hero calls $0.77
Turn: ($5.53, 2 players) 2♦
Hero checks, BTN bets $2.43, Hero calls $2.43
River: ($10.39, 2 players) 7♣
Hero checks, BTN bets $4.94, Hero folds
Results: $10.39 pot ($0.52 rake)
Final Board: A♥ Q♣ 7♥ 2♦ 7♣
BTN wins $9.87
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8 Replies
Definitely don't re-raise flop, you'd just get all worse hands to fold and all better hands to call.
Villain's line looks very bluffy, tiny raise followed by half pot bets?
I'd like to call river, but we have terrible blockers. There's also not a lot of natural bluffs.
Can probably fold turn if we're planning to fold to a 50% river bet?
Fine as played imo.
We dont need to get it in with a marginal hand - not good enough to get it in for value, not bad enough to need to turn it into a bluff. Flush redraw is a bonus, not the defining factor.
Flop, turn and river are played fine imo. But not sure I’m liking pre all that much? I call.. but maybe I’m a nit!
Standard call on both flop and turn and theres a chance V had a Kx fd and just checks back river. Pre could just be a call as well but I don’t hate a raise if v is a station and passive post flop. Wp
I'm new to poker but I'm confused why everyone is saying hero's flop play is standard. Leading out on the flop will only get called by some worse pocket pairs, maybe 7x, some oesd and maybe a gutshot. But mostly better pairs two pairs etc. So whenever villain continues you're beat. I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain!
I haven't looked at a solve but it's likely we can x or b on this flop and lose little to no EV.
Folding out lower PPs, Kx and air is no bad thing for our second pair good draw. Getting called by all those worse hands is good as we can x/c most turns when they overpunt ott or go for thin value. Great board for our range so they shouldn't have many nutted combos anyway. x/c would be fine too. If we knew villain's exact tendencies pre and post then that could sway us one way or another but generic GTO/our EV is always going to be quite flexible when we have so much equity.
Basically because our range loves this board so much when we have weaker value combos they all benefit from the collective high folding %, because then villain can't just x down and bink us to death. We print EV with FE and SDV both
Villain at 20/9 would lead me to just call the raise pre-flop and check-call down with the hopes of hitting the flush. Not the greatest sample size but that's pretty tight for a few orbits. I would assume he has the A or Q when we flip on the river but could be surprised if its jacks or something.
What have you seen from his betting patterns so far? Have you played with this person before?
