$1.65 NL HE MTT:

[tzuriel]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Table Format

MTT

Buy-in

1.65

Game Options

1. Bounty

Currency

$

Hi CC folks! It's been a minute...

Micro Super Bounty (Bounties are $1.12 each)

Out of the CO with a huge stack and a speculative hand, I called a small open from the LJ . Is this a leak? As played and I hit a gut shot should I call the Flop bet?

I hit a gut shot on the F, get a free T card, and fold when I miss on the R

NL Holdem $1.50+$0.15 (1400.00BB)
MP (55.9BBs)
HJ (59.8BBs)
HERO (150.5BBs)
BTN (53.9BBs)
SB (67.7BBs)
BB (166.7BBs)
UTG (97.4BBs)
UTG (62.4BBs)

Dealt to Hero: 8♦ 7♠

UTG Folds, UTG Folds, MP Raises To 2.1BBs, HJ Folds, HERO Calls 2BBs, BTN Folds, SB Folds, BB Calls 1BBs

Hero SPR on Flop: [7.17 effective]
Flop (7.5BBs): A♠ J♥ 9♦
BB Checks, MP Bets 2.5BBs (Rem. Stack: 51.3BBs), HERO Calls 2.5BBs (Rem. Stack: 145.9BBs), BB Folds

Turn (12.5BBs): A♠ J♥ 9♦ J♠
MP Checks, HERO Checks

River (12.5BBs): A♠ J♥ 9♦ J♠ 6♠
MP Bets 7.7BBs (Rem. Stack: 43.6BBs), HERO Folds

 

[primrose]

Yes, this is a leak. You should fold preflop and if you're in the hand you should fold flop. You have 0 clean outs, it's not like the T even gives you the nuts.

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
Due to the large bounty I would tend to do a lot of 3-betting in this spot and almost no calling. It just makes it so much easier to build a pot and possibly bust the guy and win his bounty. But 87o is nowhere near strong enough to either call or 3-bet, so its just a fold. The bottom of my range would be something like JTs and KJo, and I would usually 3-bet these hands.

Flop
I dont like to do a lot of bluff raising on A high boards, because its just to likely, he has top pair, and that he will not fold it either now or later. And I also think, calling is a bit iffy. Yes you are getting a good price, but you only have a gutshot, and its a bad gutshot, because its to the low end of a straight. A T will give KQ a better straight, and this is a hand, both opponents would very easily have even in the offsuit variety. So a very non-zero percentage of the time, even when you "get there", you just set yourself up to lose a big pot. You are also not closing action, so BB could still check-raise and blow you off your hand. So even here I would still fold.

Turn
Now he slow down, and ignoring how you got here, you have a hand with no showdown value, so its clearly a candidate to bluff. You also have a spade, which is nice for representing a flush, should another spade come on the river. So as played I would bet relatively big here essentially saying, that I have a J, and then I would also bet big on most rivers.

River
As played I would give up. If you raise now, you are only representing a flush, whereas if you bet turn and bet river, you can also represent trips. The guy probably has an A and checked turn for pot control, when the J paired, and I am not keen on trying to make a microstakes player fold top pair. The hands, I would think, I could possibly get him off by betting turn and river, would be hands like KK, QQ, TT, KQ, KT. Hands that neither have an A or a J in them.

 

[tzuriel]

Thanks for the responses. Agreed that i don't think you can get him to fold top pair. Not even sure I could by bluffing T and R. But thank you for confirming that this is a leak. Sometimes when I have big stack, I get too loose and this is a leak I want to plug!