Thursday, December 16, 2010

Wednesday Action - 0/3

Put in a short day yesterday playing only three small tourneys. Just outside the money of the 9am $26 KO I was in a good spot in chips. With 90 making the money and down to 120, I had about 30bbs and was sitting around 50th. This hand came up:


Preflop:
It folded to the sb and he raised to 2400. This is a pretty standard range with most of the hands he is going to play considering the player and the situation. He knew it was close to the bubble and I might not want to play a flop but I can't narrow his hand by too much. J10s is a good hand and I call most of the time in pos incase I whiff the flop I can get away with still 25bbs.
Flop:
The flop comes as seen and he bets 3250, I contemplate his cbet and decide to call. I believe I could easily have raised 2-2.5x with the intention of stacking towards the larger end of my raise. Still, I think a call here is okay as I would call with most Ks two pair, A9, A8, j10 or q10 (maybe).
Turn:
9h hits the turn and he checks. I think he checks most hands here any king, ahigh hands, A8 and probably a 9 also considering the stacks. For some reason, I check pretty quick thinking I could hit my straight or maybe 10 or J for free. I really think I should have bet here - though, with a 9 and the board as such I check here most of the time to hopefully get value on the river.
River:
6d - BRICK hits the river and he checks pretty quick. There is about 13k in the pot and I have 17k in my stack. I decide to bet repping a 9 here - I would also consider betting a 8 for thin value bet - but that would only be if I know the player better. He thinks for half a second and calls with AQo. I put myself in a really bad situation for the remainder of the bubble and have to shove with 9bbs a couple rounds later with Q9o in the c/o and lose to AK.


I think I played the hand wrong on the flop as I could have raise and I didn't plan ahead that if I was going to bluff a brick on the river, I should have bet the turn as it would be much harder for him to call. The question though on the turn would be how much to bet? Do I bet 8k into the 13k pot leaving me 9k back that pretty much has to go in on the river when he is likely to call both or just shove which looks like too much of an overbet from a 9... 


The other two I played in I got pretty deep but ran into some unfortunate situations. While not an overly thrilling day of cards, I still feel it will help me to discuss at least one hand a day.



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