$$2.00 NL HE STT: TPTK: SPR considerations

[LuisBoaC]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Table Format

STT

Buy-in

$2.00

VP$IP

29

PFR

0

AF

2

Currency

$

Hi all. HUD stats above are for HJ and based on just 28 hands. CO's HUD stats are PFR:14 / VPIP:11 / AF:0, also from just 28 hands.
I'm only recently considering SPR and trying to get a feel for how it should influence my decisions. I've seen lots of different interpretations of what is a small, medium or large SPR. Here the SPR is roughly 4, so how willing do you think I should be to get all-in?
I raised on the flop to give my opponents the wrong price to draw to a flush or straight, and because I believe I can get value from worse A-x hands and some smaller pairs.
How would you have played this/what do you think about how I played and what would you do going forwards? How would SPR affect your decision making?
Thanks.
pokerstars, $1.72 + $0.28 - Hold'em No Limit - 25/50 (6 ante) - 7 players
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UTG: 828 (17 bb)
MP: 1,305 (26 bb)
MP+1: 2,335 (47 bb)
CO: 1,418 (28 bb)
BU (Hero): 3,226 (65 bb)
SB: 1,327 (27 bb)
BB: 3,061 (61 bb)

Pre-Flop: (117) Hero is BTN with K♣ A♣
2 players fold, MP+1 calls 50, CO raises to 150, Hero calls 150, 2 players fold, MP+1 calls 100

Flop: (567) A♦ 5♥ 6♦ (3 players)
MP+1 checks, CO bets 283, Hero raises to 950, MP+1 raises to 2,179 (all-in),

 

[eetenor]

Hi all. HUD stats above are for HJ and based on just 28 hands. CO's HUD stats are PFR:14 / VPIP:11 / AF:0, also from just 28 hands.
I'm only recently considering SPR and trying to get a feel for how it should influence my decisions. I've seen lots of different interpretations of what is a small, medium or large SPR. Here the SPR is roughly 4, so how willing do you think I should be to get all-in?
I raised on the flop to give my opponents the wrong price to draw to a flush or straight, and because I believe I can get value from worse A-x hands and some smaller pairs.
How would you have played this/what do you think about how I played and what would you do going forwards? How would SPR affect your decision making?
Thanks.
PokerStars, $1.72 + $0.28 - Hold'em No Limit - 25/50 (6 ante) - 7 players
Replay this hand on CardsChat

UTG: 828 (17 bb)
MP: 1,305 (26 bb)
MP+1: 2,335 (47 bb)
CO: 1,418 (28 bb)
BU (Hero): 3,226 (65 bb)
SB: 1,327 (27 bb)
BB: 3,061 (61 bb)

Pre-Flop: (117) Hero is BTN with K♣ A♣
2 players fold, MP+1 calls 50, CO raises to 150, Hero calls 150, 2 players fold, MP+1 calls 100

Flop: (567) A♦ 5♥ 6♦ (3 players)
MP+1 checks, CO bets 283, Hero raises to 950, MP+1 raises to 2,179 (all-in),

While AKs is a great multiway hand we do not want to make it easy to go multiway so calling the raise is not the most +EV choice. flop Our raise bet sizing vs the opener is an all-in sizing vs their stack size but we are letting the loose limper chase so if we are going to raise to ISO then we can shove here
Standard result vs player type-we want to raise preflop and lose that way when they will not fold that hand---we do get more from those chasers when they miss the flop by raising preflop

 

[300HPGOD]

3 betting pre flop is much better than calling especially given the stacks. When we 3 bet its going to make (or should make) the initial raiser fold out their small pocket pairs. Before I made the 3 bet I would have seen the stack size of the raiser, which is 28 BBs, and know before I 3 bet that if they 4 bet me jam me Im calling. If stacks were way deeper then of course the 4 bet by villain would not be a jam and we could just call.

As played on the flop I like that you raised but when the initial caller check jams over our flop 3 bet I would be concerned. Their play of opening limping and then calling smells like small pocket pair hands to me and the board has a 5 and 6. I dont know what I would do in game without knowing something about the villain and their HUD stats. I would not like to be in this spot and would be thinking this is a set, two pair or a flush draw. Ace is the diamond so that should cut down on flush draws a bit. Like I said, I would not like this spot even with TPTK.

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
Putting a hand like AKs in your calling range some percentage of the time make you more balanced and difficult to play against. And you also keep the limper in with dominated hands. But with that being said this is a 2$ SnG, so I dont think, balance is important, and I would just 3-bet for value against CO with intention to get it in, if either player 4-bet.

Flop
You ask about SPR, and SPR is a tool, you use on the flop to plan the hand, before any action has happened. In this case the SPR was around 4 against the limper and around 2 against CO. Less than 3 is an auto stack-off with TPTK, and 3-6 is a grey zone. In this case I would be willing to stack off against both players. The reason is, CO limped into the pot, so he is almost certainly a bad player, and this is also a very low buyin. So even though I think, CO can have basically all the 2 pair combos on this board, he can also have a lot of other hands, that you are ahead off, and that he will also be willing to stack off.

So my plan on the flop would be to play for stacks against both opponents, if I get a clean board runout. This is an important point, because if the turn is really bad like 4 of diamonds, and there is heavy action, then we should certainly reevaluate. And with that being said I would not raise the flop. Raising now goes against the whole idea, why you might not raise preflop. Yes you get value from CO, but you can also get that value on the turn and river, and you force the limper to have a really good hand to continue.

When the limper 3-bet jam, thats a very strong action, so I am not loving AK at this point. But you have already put in nearly half the effective stack, and here another old school concept comes into play, which is pot commitment. Just as SPR this is only a guideline, but it says, that once you put in more than 33% of the effective stack, you are pot committed and should not fold.

This is of course assuming, that you have a hand with showdown value, so it dont apply, if you are bluffing the river and get raised. But it apply in this situation, and the reason is, you only need around 25% equity to make a breakeven call. And you will have that here. Sometimes the limper might be overplaying AQ or AJ or going with a draw. And even if he have two pair, you can win by spiking a Q and also by a paired board, which counterfeit him. If he has A5, runouts like J6, 77 or QQ will give you the same two pair, but you will have a better kicker.