$5.50 NL HE MTT: AQo in UTG

[mariussica88]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Table Format

MTT

Buy-in

5.50

Game Options

1. Bounty

Currency

$

This is a $5.50 Bounty Tournament, we are still in the beginning stages of the tournament (late reg is still open), the bounty on my opponent is minimum $1.25 and he just late reg. and started with 18BB. He played only 3 hands so not much info on him.

Do you call the river shove? Is he ever bluffing there?


GGPoker, Hold'em No Limit - 1,000/2,000 (300 ante) - 8 players
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UTG (Hero): 167,872 (84 bb)
UTG+1: 49,796 (25 bb)
MP: 35,750 (18 bb)
MP+1: 36,500 (18 bb)
CO: 41,950 (21 bb)
BU: 255,665 (128 bb)
SB: 89,460 (45 bb)
BB: 92,229 (46 bb)

Pre-Flop: (5,400) Hero is UTG with Q♣ A♠
Hero raises to 6,000, 3 players fold, CO calls 6,000, 2 players fold, BB calls 4,000

Flop: (21,400) 5♣ T♦ K♦ (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 6,634, CO calls 6,634, BB folds

Turn: (34,668) K♣ (2 players)
Hero bets 10,748, CO calls 10,748

River: (56,164) 6♣ (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets 18,268 (all-in), Hero ?

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
4 players behind you have rejam stacks, and for that reason I would open to a smaller size, even though you are relatively deep against BTN. The point of a smaller sizing is to be able to open more hands, that are not willing to call off a jam for 18-25BB.

Flop
This is a bit of an awkward spot, because the SPR against CO is less than two, which does not leave him much room to continue without committing himself to the pot. For that reason I probably take the more defensive route here and start with a check to see, what he does, and what BB does, if CO bet. You flopped a gutshot with an overcard, so its not a complete miss, but you dont have any sort of flushdraw, and multiway I dont think, its a big loss, if you need to pitch this hand on the flop.

Turn
He only has around a pot sized bet left now, so if you are going to continue as a bluff, I think, you need to jam. Betting 11k out of his remaining 29k stack is like begging him to jam on you, if he decide to continue, and do you really want to call it off, now that the K has paired? Sure it makes it less likely, he has one, but if he does, then your overcard outs are dead, and if he has KJ, your straight outs are also dead. I would have checked the flop, and as played I would check now, because this player simply does not have enough chips behind to play a multistreet hand against him.

River
The first decision here is to fire the third barrel or not. And because of the stack size issue discussed already, its not very tempting. For sure he is never folding a K getting like 4:1, and he might not fold a T either. Yes a flushdraw came in, and you block it, but its on the backdoor side, so he is not likely to give you much credit for having it.

So as (mis) played on the earlier streets I would also check here. Now he jam, and there are busted draws like QJ and frontdoor diamonds. But he is also looking at a situation, where you are getting 4:1, so I dont think, those busted draws always bluff. Which mean, that sometimes he check back, and you actually win at showdown. But when he jam, I dont think, you are good 1 out of 5 times.

 

[primrose]

This turn bet doesn't make any sense to me. No one folds second pair to a 30% Pot bet when the only higher card just paired. And they're not gonna fold a flush draw either because of the sizing.

Jamming the Turn makes more sense but against weak GGPoker competition it would still be a mistake, I think. Imo the correct play here is to check the turn and Fold to most River bets. If the club doesn't come then you can consider bluff catching but since it did come, it's just an easy fold.