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Facing a shove on an ugly river
TL; DR - I shove the turn.
Personally i would have taken a more aggressive line than check calling the flop, but Hero's flop line is reasonable. On the turn it gets abit dicey, H has a strong hand on ...
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A flush beating a full house in a hold 'em poker?
This is a 6+ NLHE game (also referred to as short deck). In this game the hand ranking are different and a flush is better than a full house. Here is a link to partypoker's short deck hand rankings: ...
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Should I call overbet shove with top pair
There are a number of decisions here, let's review them one at a time:
CO and SB limp in to a BB with Qx suited and the hero calls
I'd say this is the first mistake here. I would raise this to 3.5 ...
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Cash Game situation
Given your description of villain, I think your play is OK but a call might be better. A flush draw is a huge part of his range here. The problem with raising him all in though is that he's getting ...
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NL100: Top Pair weak kicker facing Turn barrel
Interesting, tough hand. I think I would fold here. I'll assume there isn't any relevant history with the opponent as that may change your strategy here.
I think everything is pretty ...
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Is all-in calling 2 all-ins with KK a bad move pre-flop?
Short answer, no, I wouldn't have done anything differently.
You have 14BBs and find KK with two players already committed to pay off your entire stack if you win the hand. Sure, you might rather ...
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Help with a hand analysis from more experienced players?
Preflop:
Your $10 raise pre-flop seems a bit small. I'd make it around $16. On the otherhand, AQo on a 9 handed deepstacked table is not even that great. What do you do against a 3-bet? You could ...
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Do I call a turn all-in with KK with against a possible flush?
If the villain really has made a flush, especially the nut flush, I think he would be making a mistake to put you all-in on the turn.
He ought to bet only as large as he thinks he can to keep you in, ...
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Should I call all-in here with bottom set?
Qd-9c-2d is pretty much the most favorable runout you could hope for when you're holding a pair of deuces (other than quads). If you're not willing to get all-in on that board, you shouldn't even be ...
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Called me with nothing
Generally A9 wants to check a flop like 844 rainbow, because you are likely ahead of you opponent's range, but you don't want o play a massive pot. If you bet you can get bluff raised easily and you ...
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Tough spot with Aces against regular, NLHE-6max
Preflop is standard and flop is fine. At that point, the only hand that beats you is a flopped flush and even then you have a strong re-draw to a full house.
On the turn, I'd bet more. Your hand ...
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Jason Platten 1234
Split pot... It's the best 5 card hand, that's it, nothing else matters. Yes the Q7 has another full house but that makes no difference.
Player 1's best 5 cards:
QQQ77
Player 2's best 5 cards:
QQQ77
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Facing donk lead and call on flop ... what now?
It is an interesting spot for sure. It is hard to say exactly what range the SB and BB have here. Is SB just betting hands like Td8d? Could BB have 87 or would he raise? It is impossible to say. One ...
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Good fold or losing play? AK on AK988
Wow, that was a great to superstar fold. As it turns out you made the right play. When I am playing well I would have a hard time convincing myself to believe what I see and make that fold, when I am ...
Jon♦
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Check or bet turn with effective nuts
Preflop: fine defend. Might put in a 3bet squeeze once in a while if stacks were deeper. Should be concerned about SB's range given that he cold called and has to play OOP to two players.
Flop: ...
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If there are no random numbers
The accepted algorithm is Fisher–Yates shuffle. It was developed in 1938 and still sites have used bad algorithms.
-- To shuffle an array a of n elements (indices 0..n-1):
for i from n−1 downto 1 ...
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Should I call this river overbet with an overpair?
You are looking at a pot sized bet on the river, so since you are getting 2 to 1 you should be looking to fold around 2/3 of your range. You should try to play a balanced and unexploitable strategy. ...
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Cash Game situation
My analysis is you played fine. If villain was on a flush draw you got pot odds to put him all in on the flop and you might have gotten him to fold. If you had waited for a blank on turn he might ...
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Cash Game situation
TL;DR: I think shoving was fine.
After his flop raise he has only about a half the pot left in his stack. You're of course not folding to that raise given your read on him as a looser player who is ...
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mental hand history?
If you are referring to the Tendler and Carter book, the section 'Improve your C-game' two things are stated. Firstly, "Your C-Game [are] the cracks in [our poker] foundation ... There is always some ...
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Should I have shoved all in on this flop?
Not really, I'd have played it exactly the same, especially given this is a multi-way pot, you want to isolate here against baby aces and small pairs hitting a set on subsequent streets. A King is ...
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150+15 live early with TP+FD
I am waffling on this. I think I could be convinced by any strategy that tries to get all of UTG+2's stack in the middle, and I could also be convinced to fold to a shove by UTG+2 if you call or min-...
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Should I call overbet shove with top pair
CO just call is strange. Should be trying to steal the blinds with any hand worth playing. They could be slow playing a monster but they folded.
Getting 5:1 sb would be calling with pretty much ...
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Call with straight when 3 suited cards are in table, that's a bad move?
A bet of 2.5x the pot IS a huge bet. Which is why you should pass with a straight when you see the third flush card. You can be beaten, not only by a flush, but by a 6-high straight (villain has 6-5).
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Called me with nothing
Just a few observations/contemplations of the hand:
I get dealt QTo - I'm assuming you're out of position here. What position were you in?
My opponent raised to 0.8, I call - If you're intending ...
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Tough spot with Aces against regular, NLHE-6max
You flop the second nuts on what is still a very scary board for you. I think you need to play it more aggressively than you did.
Not likely either of you hit a flush on the flop as you would not ...
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Is all-in calling 2 all-ins with KK a bad move pre-flop?
Simple question. Simple answer. You should never fold kings here. I have no info on payouts and stacksizes of the other players, but I ran this spot on ICMizer calculating your 'chip ev'. In this spot ...
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Is all-in calling 2 all-ins with KK a bad move pre-flop?
Since your stack was covered and it was tournament play and all actions were ahead of you, I personally would have folded and shown if possible.
I've made MANY folds where others would have borrowed ...
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Interesting heads-up hand in WCOOP 66 $25k high roller event BrynKenney vs caecilius
Let's look at the hand step by step, starting pre-flop.
Preflop:
They are playing heads-up effectively 24BB deep. This deep heads-up it could be a good strategy to limp with your entire range on the ...
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Interesting heads-up hand in WCOOP 66 $25k high roller event BrynKenney vs caecilius
Pre
With only 24BB check call is fine.
Flop
Not enough behind to protect bottom pair on a wet board.
Brynn has outs. I could go with taking a stab at the pot but he is the short stack so I would ...
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