Hand of the day 10/18/09
Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 by bparis
Hey all, in honor of the Amsterdam Master Classics starting in about 10 days I’m doing today’s HOTD in Dutch. I’ve been running stars in Dutch for the last few weeks, both to learn some Dutch poker talk and to raise my aggression level, because as Vectile said, “Personally, I place a big premium on a bet being geretourneerd aan me.” This hand comes from the Sunday Warm-up, the table was mostly full of randoms as usual.
PokerStars Spel #34196128405: Toernooi #203050016, $200+$15 USD Hold’em No Limit - Level VII (250/500) - 18/10/2009 14:39:49 ET
Tafel ‘203050016 230’ 9-max Plaats #7 is de button
Plaats 1: melikman (9948 in chips)
Plaats 2: tyxerakias (18602 in chips)
Plaats 3: jbbutters (37447 in chips)
Plaats 4: kalle2012 (11398 in chips)
Plaats 5: bparis (19827 in chips)
Plaats 6: fold_em_sho7 (22572 in chips)
Plaats 7: teamfranklin (19022 in chips)
Plaats 8: joeppiej (7579 in chips)
Plaats 9: P Cim720 (14490 in chips)
melikman: zet de ante 25
tyxerakias: zet de ante 25
jbbutters: zet de ante 25
kalle2012: zet de ante 25
bparis: zet de ante 25
fold_em_sho7: zet de ante 25
teamfranklin: zet de ante 25
joeppiej: zet de ante 25
P Cim720: zet de ante 25
joeppiej: zet small blind 250
P Cim720: zet big blind 500
*** GESLOTEN KAARTEN ***
Gedeeld aan bparis [Qd Kd]
melikman: foldt
tyxerakias: foldt
jbbutters: foldt
kalle2012: raiset 755 naar 1255
A standard raise size in the post-ante period, and we have KQdd, a fairly strong hand. Three-betting would commit us here against his 20BB stack, and this is an excellent hand to flat in position, so let’s just do that.
bparis: callt 1255
fold_em_sho7: foldt
teamfranklin: callt 1255
joeppiej: foldt
P Cim720: foldt
*** FLOP *** [8d Ts Tc]
kalle2012: checkt
Bad flop, but we have some possibilities here. The original raiser checkt, meaning he likely doesn’t have an overpair and therefore is not too likely to continue in the hand. The guy who called behind likely doesn’t have JJ+ either, as he would 3 bet it pre-flop most of the time. We can put the squeeze on our two opponents here with a bet, as the guy behind us will have to act without knowing what the initial preflop raiser will do. I’m going to bet somewhat small, mostly for information, with the intention of frequently firing again on future streets.
bparis: bet 2047
teamfranklin: callt 2047
kalle2012: foldt
*** TURN *** [8d Ts Tc] [9d]
The guy behind has callt us, but we’ve turned some draws. We definitely want to be seeing the river, and we probably want to keep the pressure on him, so let’s bet again. Check-calling in this spot allows him to set the price and makes it awkward if you want to bet the river, because you’re out of position. If we bet we can set a smallish amount, an amount we’d be willing to call with our draw, and keep the aggression up in case we want to blow him off the hand on the river. He may even fold on the turn, although our sizing here isn’t really designed to force him to do that.
bparis: bet 3500
teamfranklin: callt 3500
*** RIVER *** [8d Ts Tc 9d] [As]
Well, our draws have missed, but a scare card hit the river. At this point, if he has anything less than three tens, he’d have to be making an incredibly heroic call to call a river bet. I think that since he didn’t raise the incredibly drawy turn with the effective stacks, we can discount three tens somewhat. He could have a made full house and be slowplaying, but that’s a pretty specific range of hands for him to have. I’m actually really not sure what he has at this point, but I’m fairly certain that he can’t stand a big river bet. Our line, betting all three streets after calling pre, would be perfectly consistent with a ten or a full house. One final point is the sizing here - while it may seem big, I’m only risking about 2/3 of the pot, so the river bet only needs to work 40% of the time to be profitable.
bparis: bet 9500
teamfranklin: foldt
De niet-gecallde bet (9500) is geretourneerd aan bparis
bparis won 15834 van pot
This is a great example of how maintaining the initiative and betting throughout a hand can result in you winning a pot that you have no business winning. One of the most important parts of deeper stacked no limit is constant aggression, especially postflop aggression. This can be one of the most difficult switches to make when transitioning from SNGs to MTTs or cash.
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