Edit: Fixed the title. Was thinking this was 3/6, not 4/8.
First, the appetizer:
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $8.00 BB (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
SB ($780)
Hero (BB) ($2215.50)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 10
, 9
SB bets $24, Hero calls $16
Flop: ($48) 9
, 7, 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB checks
Turn: ($48) A (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $28, Hero calls $28
River: ($104) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $75, Hero calls $75
Total pot: $254 | Rake: $0.50
Results:
SB had 3
, 4 (high card, Ace).
Hero had 10, 9 (one pair, nines).
Outcome: Hero won $253.50
And now, the main course:
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $8.00 BB (5 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
UTG ($1338.90)
MP ($2520)
Button ($471.40)
Hero (SB) ($3060.10)
BB ($800)
Preflop: Hero is SB with K, K
UTG calls $8, MP bets $36, 1 fold, Hero raises to $136, 2 folds, MP calls $100
Flop: ($288) 8, 3, 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $199, MP raises to $468, Hero calls $269
Turn: ($1224) 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $625, Hero calls $625
River: ($2474) 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $1291 (All-In), Hero calls $1291
Total pot: $5056 | Rake: $3
Results:
Hero had K, K (one pair, Kings).
MP had Q, K (high card, King).
Outcome: Hero won $5053
Ship it.
I guess in hand 1 you’re assuming that he wouldn’t check back a draw on the flop very often, so the 5 shouldn’t really have helped him and he doesn’t have an A often enough for you to fold?
Hand 2 is pretty sick 300BBs deep. I’d be interested to hear why you called him down there. If I felt like my hand was good and I wanted to risk 300BBs I’d probably just c/shove on the turn. There’s a lot of hands he could have that have some kind of draw, so you should win quite a lot from getting him to fold those or from putting him in a spot where he has to make a call with a draw because of the pot odds he gets.
Hand 1: Exactly. I don’t think he checks many draws on flop, if he does he usually has a pair so isn’t betting when an Ace turns, and I don’t expect him to value bet Aces on this river.
Hand 2: I actually didn’t think my hand was likely to be good on the turn. It was a crying call in hopes that Villain was overplaying some worse overpair (he was an unknown, which as you know are rare and usually not very good at these stakes). I was planning to check-fold a lot of rivers.
I also don’t think he takes this line with many draws. Given that he could make a big, pot committing turn bet, I don’t see why he’d set himself up to get put in a tough spot by a check-shove instead. I’m looking at turn as a way ahead/way behind situation, and I don’t think any of the hands I was way behind are shoving this river.
If I lost on the river, I was expecting it to be to 97, outside chance of T9.
Good questions!