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This #HelloAlec episode is coming from my reader Lars who played this cash game hand in his local casino. Full house vs full house, but our hero’s was the stronger one. Anyway, he would like to know more about his cash game poker strategy here. Should he bet the flop with a top set? What would you do to get more value? What would be your poker strategy?
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This hand worked out nicely, for your holding this time. You mentioned you were running badly, and you are really vunerable to losing against lesser starting hands alot, with a measly 3x preflop raise. The way cash games are playing now, you need to make your opening raises 5x or bigger. I usually open for 7.5x, because it takes that much for your opening raise to recieve any respect whatsoever. As for your action on the flop, i think it will set you up to get your big hands drawn out on, especially with a situation as draw heavy when J 10 is on board. Think about it, 7-8, 89, q9, kq, aq, ak, 97, q8, k9, all have straight draws. 2 things go wrong when you check the flop. You give your opponent a chance to beat you for free, and you also give them the chance to get there cheap on the river. Here is why this is all so very important. Success in poker, is about winning more pots, not about maximizing your win on some pots, and losing more pots because of this effort. By checking and trapping, you are winning a big pot when your opponent isnt making much of a mistake. If you are trying to make money from opponents "non mistakes" at poker, you are going to be a frustrated loser in the LONG RUN. Make the plays, that constantly give your opponents hard decisions, and the chance to make a mistake, and you will win more pots, and ultimatly succeed at poker.
Dittos to all the other comments that the PFR should be larger against a froggy opponent, especially one who has position on hero. On the flop i'll guarantee her went 'I haz beans, I check (to checkraise froggy)! Pass the corndogs!' cute play and I am an advocate of leading sets in general. This is an exception though, because this flop hits the calling range very hard, and with villain having position on us, I do check this flop intending on check raising (if villain has JT, 98, TT or like hero, villain overplay). if he checks back he doesn't have anything. Villain may fold his TX, 6X or AX hands to a bet here so a check here is correct range poker. The turn card is perfect for this line so the delayed c-bet is fine. River is lucky card enabling us to get his stack. That is an outlier. The river bet plays itself as villains bet is perfect for him to get stacks in.
I saw an identical hand in poker after Dark Phil Hellmuth lost I don't remember to who
IMO , you play well in river, in flop since you say he will call on flop why check. check he might check back since you bet he have to call. if you c bet alot of hand. but river well play
I was expecting him to show up with T6, tbh
sounds like the worst table ever.
so…
FLOP – hits a lot of his range, with at least draw possibilities or single pairs. could probably get value here. Think of all the hands he calls with: AK, AQ, KQ, AJ, KJ, QJ, AT, KT, QT, Q9, JT, T9, 98, maybe 87, TT, 99, 88, 77, 66, maybe even 6x combos. That's a lot of stuff to get value from.
TURN – looks fine.
RIVER – I'd just jam it in. Most likely holding something like A6. Hey – you just said that. Anyway, he'll call a jam.
Only critique I have is that since you explained how you were running bad at the time and the Villian was constantly calling you preflop and your C Bet and winning or stealing small pots from you. I feel that you was supposed to bet that flop like you normally would. Checking there in that spot was a bit suspicious.
I think you can extract more from this villain by c-betting post flop here. Your range doesn't get too polarized (OOP, maybe just a little), and his range is pretty wide if he's "almost always" calling for position behind you. He's more likely to hit or draw on flops like these than you are, and he probably knows it. If he connected with something like Q10 and doesn't improve to at least two pair, he won't hang on past the turn, and you risk extracting zero by skipping the c-bet.
A. he's going to float to bluff turn. B. he hit absolutely nothing an you won't make a dime off him. C. he flopped a draw an you gave him a free card maybe even a draw he'd check raise so he'd feel commited to say love it. every hand is situational. it's all on how you feel it out cuz you are the one there. but I think main focus is river bet….. 24 to 60 something…. then a jam of 400ish…. if he has 65 he'll jam on you. if he doesn't you need to figure out the right price to extract max value