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Inducing Trouble
2009-05-11 09:19:27
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 Curtis Thomas |
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Inducing bets from your opponents can be a profitable skill to have but it can lead to trouble. In my last article I discussed different ways to get the villain to put money in the pot. A couple of days after writing that article I had a curious hand come up. Here is how it played out: Full Tilt Poker Game #12071070984: MiniFTOPS Event #1 (84239296), Table 2499 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:34:35 ET - 2009/05/06 Seat 1: DDubya97 (5,835) Seat 2: hokumfool (4,440) Seat 3: Batman Wins (4,555) Seat 4: UnFckinReal (5,630) Seat 5: Sir MafioSo94 (3,455) Seat 6: scags23 (6,085) Sir MafioSo94 posts the small blind of 20 scags23 posts the big blind of 40 The button is in seat #4 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to hokumfool [Qs Ac] DDubya97 folds hokumfool raises to 120 Batman Wins calls 120 UnFckinReal folds Sir MafioSo94 folds scags23 folds -----Notice how deep we are. I make a standard raise. I feel his range here can be very wide "“ AA, any two broadway cards, any suited connectors, any pocket pair. I feel like he would 3-Bet KK, QQ, JJ and perhaps AA or AK. I have no reads on him. *** FLOP *** [4h Qc 9d] hokumfool has 15 seconds left to act hokumfool bets 225 Batman Wins has 15 seconds left to act Batman Wins calls 225 -----I make a a standard continuation bet and he calls. The range I put him on preflop holds, I can see a player not wanting to run me out of the pot with overs or a set. I can also see him floating with any suited connector, pocket pair, or even KQ-10 type hands. *** TURN *** [4h Qc 9d] [7d] hokumfool checks Batman Wins has 15 seconds left to act Batman Wins bets 320 hokumfool has 15 seconds left to act hokumfool calls 320 -----I check the turn because he has position and I don't want him to fold to my turn continuation bet. He bets around half the pot. I consider a raise here, but I think the only hands that would call me are hands that have me beat or perhaps KQ. I think it is too likely he will fold, so I just call the raise to try and get more value on the river. *** RIVER *** [4h Qc 9d 7d] [Kh] hokumfool checks Batman Wins bets 3,890, and is all in hokumfool has 15 seconds left to act hokumfool folds Uncalled bet of 3,890 returned to Batman Wins Batman Wins mucks Batman Wins wins the pot (1,390) ----- The river was an ugly card but I was not that concerned. I did check for pot control and because the king did hit a large part of his range. I was perfectly willing to call a pot sized bet but he shoves. The shove actually made me think he had missed everything and I was very tempted to call. I felt my implied skill odds of recouping my loss in this hand was actually greater than the chance that he had air so I made the fold. If I would have continued betting on the turn I would have had a tighter grasp of his range, but I was gambling to get more value. I use this move many times a day and it is very effective, but sometimes an attempt to reap value does nothing but induce trouble. GG GL |
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Posted On: 2010-09-01 12:48:49
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DavSchweiger Says:
I'm OK with the check on the turn becuase you thought you were ahead. However, I would have put a small bet out on the river since the scare card came out. If he calls, your beat and if he folds, you had him. Your play let him take the pot. You let him take control of the betting so you didn't know where you stood. You showed weakness so this donk (look up his stats) knew you would fold to his all in unless you hit the straight. I actually put him on 10 J because he was willing to call pre-flop and when he flopped the straight draw and he was willing to put out a semi-bluff bet when you showed weakness. I don't think he had AK because this donk would probably have reraised you pre-flop.
Posted On: 2009-05-20 13:35:47
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