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How Do You Play this Bluff Catcher?
wager9
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July 25, 2016 - 12:09 am
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 $200 Live Sit and Go

This is a poker league tournament in which the TOP 9 get “points” that accrue over 12 tournaments. At the end of these the TOP 4 in points get a WSOP Main Event Seat. This was the first of 12 tourneys.

This is Level 2. 20 left and we are 10 handed

Villain Notes: he is a fairly decent, thinking player who has the capability of having it and NOT having it and betting similarly. He is not world class but better than the average home game player.

Blinds are 50/100

I have about 8000. V has 11000

MP limps. Another MP limps. I raise from HJ to 325 with Q9. V raises from BTN to 575. MP players fold. I call.

POT = 1500

Flop: J82
I check. V bets 650. I call.

Pot = 2800
Turn: Q

I check. V checks.

Pot = 2800
River: 4

I check. V bets 1350…US?

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July 25, 2016 - 12:33 am
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I bet 400 pre flop.

No antes? If there is no antes i probably fold to a 3bet, but that one was too small I guess. But I check fold that flop, specially oop.

I like to lead the river small, about 800, value/blockbet, if V reraises you can fold. When you check, V can raise big and you fell bad to call.

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July 26, 2016 - 7:34 pm
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I agree. bet larger pre, especially live. V probably saved you from just building a big family pot. It could be why he re-raised so small, to iso a bit.

I’d call the small 4-bet, if it still happens, as well. I like the action on the flop and turn, but I give up on the river. Even our Q isn’t that strong and with no heart blockers I’d rather let him take it down and hold on to my chips. He could very easily have the Aheart or Kheart in his range so not worth a steal IMO.

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I am tempted to hero call river; it seems pretty unlikely that he wouldn’t bet the Ah or Kh on turn (unless he had say AhQ or AhJ) but I think even those pair + Ah combos bet some times. I could def see AcKc playing this way. One thing that scares me is if he would ever freak out and turn like KcKs into a bluff… This is probably very player dependent so if you thought he is prone to bluffing a bit too often in general on rivers I would call, but if not I guess just fold.

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Preflop going bigger would be good, but once you get min-3bet you can’t fold anything.

The flop, I don’t like. You have no backdoors, one overcard and a gutshot and not even all of those are 100% live, and you’re up against what is probably a strong range of hands. I think this is pretty button-clicky and unnecessary to call here with so little equity on a dynamic flop. If you’re doing this kind of thing frequently, especially in 3-bet pots, you’re probably giving away a lot of chips.

As played, I think check-folding, check-raising, and betting river are all better lines than check-calling so I hope you didn’t do that. If you think villain is capable of bet-folding the Th or even the Kh then check-raising is great, since most of villain’s Ah combos are likely to bet turn while we can still have a bunch of AhJx combos and some others too, and thus villain is pretty capped and might even fold 100% of his range to a check-raise if he always bets the Kh or Ah on turn.

If you think villain never folds a decent heart to any significant action then check-folding is better, but betting out is probably the line I like the most. And not betting for ‘value/blocker’ either – there’s no value here, we get called by worse exactly 0%. I’m betting as a bluff, quite big, to put pressure on hands like non-heart AA/KK which might check the turn, non-heart TT/99, non-heart AQ…basically anything without a heart is folding river most likely, and since most of villain’s Ah/Kh combos are betting turn, I think we get a lot of folds.

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