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Isolation shove with a straight flush draw
$1-$2 live cash on a Tuesday afternoon at a local card room in New Hampshire. Almost all “regs”. A lot of limping at the table. There seem to be two “studied” players at the table, one of whom will be in this hand. I’m in the Lo-Jack (spelling?) with $210. I have 67 of clubs. 3 limps into me. I open to $12 which is the standard 1-2 open here in New England. Hi-Jack and button (one of the studied players). The SB (the other studied player) calls with about $250 in his stack. The BB calls with $57 total.
Flop is 4c,5c,2d giving me a straight flush draw and the high end of any straight draw. SB checks. BB shoves for $45. I don’t consider folding because there is already $42 (- rake) in the pot. With $198 behind I don’t think I have enough money to 3-bet. I decide to iso raise by shoving $198 in the attempt to get the SB to fold whatever it is he checked with. After a good 2 minute tank he calls. BB flips JJ. SB turns over KQc taking away my flush outs.
Turn is the 8d giving me a straight. River is 10c giving the SB a higher flush.
$210 is a lot of money (for me) to lose in one hand so I was pretty dejected. However, I’ve come away feeling I played the hand correctly. I ran it through Flopzilla and the right answer depends on the range I put the SB on. Since he called from the SB and then checked the flop I believe I should be putting him on a fairly wide range, even though I consider him to be a good player.
Any opinions?
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2 Replies
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In the first paragraph above it should say Hi-Jack and button BOTH FOLD.
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Thanks for sharing this hand @7High11 I think you are 100% correct that the SB player has done very little to narrow their range (other than calling preflop in the first place). When they do call, I think most players are going to check 100% of their range from the SB on almost every board, and while they have some suited aces for the combo flush/wheel draw and some pocket pairs that tripped up, the rest of their range is not going to want to continue to your action all the time, and in a lot of cases they will fold hands better than yours, leaving you heads up with the short stack shover. Out of curiosity, what were the different ranges you put into Flopzilla for the SB caller? You can export/upload them right here into the forum, or add a screenshot image instead (if you have still them/saved)
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