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  • ND Poker Tour — pocket TT

    Posted by arw on May 24, 2021 at 12:16 pm

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    <div>Today, I played a live tournament with RecPoker members including @SteveFredlund in Fargo, ND. The Dakota Poker Tour Tournament was $150 for 20k chips and you can get 10k for $50 add on. Max $300 investment. Max stack is 50k chips.</div>

     

    I only invested $200 worth for 30k chips.

    In this tournament, I had all my good hands in the small blind. It was weird.

     

    300/600

    Early on, I had 33 in the small blind. It folds around. I limp and the bb checks. Flop is K93. I check, he bets 2 bb. I call. Turn is a 7. I check, he bets 3 bb. I raise to 8 bb. He folds. I win.

     

    One orbit, I have 77 in the small blind. It folds around again. I limp and the bb checks. Flop is 776. I have quads. I check/call 2 bb. Turn is 9s putting flush draw out there. I check, he bets 4 bb. I raise to 10 bb. He folds. I win and show.

     

    I have momentum, take down a few more small pots, and I’m up over 40k or 50 bb.

     

    400 / 800

    Once again, I have TT in the small blind. This time, I see two limps ahead of me. I again limp and the bb checks. The flop is 4 ways and 864 rainbow. I lead for 2 bb. The big blind calls. The young guy limper makes it 8 bb. He has 16 bb behind. I decide to call and the other player folds. Heads up. The turn is 5. He thinks for a second and shoves all in for 16 bb into 38 bb. I tank call.

     

    I survive for an hour with ~20 bb but I lost my momentum at the table and was leaking to 15 bb.

     

    600/1200 + 1200 bb ante

    I get it in with JJ from the SMALL BLIND. In the hand, I saw two limps. The ABC player utg decided to limp AA and the young guy from before limp/folded. I shoved my JJ. The guy with AA thought for a good 60 seconds, pained look on his face, before slipping in the chips. I busted JJ to AA.

     

    #roastme

    Michael replied 2 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • fivebyfive

    Administrator
    May 24, 2021 at 6:21 pm

    Nice recap. slow rolled with AA to bust. But it isn’t really even a slow roll if they look that pained. What was the result of the TT hand? That’s the most interesting one to me. I don’t like the limp behind with a hand like TT, but once we get to this flop multiway, it is fairly interesting. We still rate the have the best hand a lot of the time. I’d think about leading larger, targeting an 8 or sticky straight draws. This also has the side benefit of folding out two overcard hands which gives us protection. If we get raised off that larger sizing, I start to get comfortable letting it go.

    I’m already hating life when I call this raise in a limped pot, and that 5 just makes things worse. I think two pair/sets can still profitably shove and now lots of draws just got there. We need to call and be right just 25% of the time, so it is tempting, but I don’t see a lot of bluffs left. So we’re really just beating some overzealous hands like A8. I’m not sure there are enough of those to win, so I likely make a tight fold in this spot.

    What’d Villain have?

    • arw

      Member
      May 24, 2021 at 7:46 pm

      Villain had top two pair for 86.

      He didn’t seem strong on the turn after pushing. He disliked the turn card 5.

      In my mind, a really big decision was the flop bet, not the turn bet. When I called his 5k and saw only 10k more behind, it was committing him to the pot. As a read, I had already seen this villain bluff 2x in the tournament, one of them against me, which I picked off for a small pot. I think this led to me calling on the flop.

      The turn was a terrible card for me. He goes all-in, which I expected. After he pushed all-in, he looked really nervous once I took 30 seconds or so. My hand is very strong on the flop and he likely doesn’t think I have an over-pair. If he was bluffing, he likely had outs and this card (5) might have given him two pair, a straight, or a set. He limped pf. Then again, I’ve seen him overplaying weak hands so I don’t think he has me every time. As a guess, he might have some one pair (A8, K8, A6, 98), some two pair (86, 85, 84, 65, 64, 54), and some sets (88, 66, 44, 55). With my hand, I have no blockers. These combos are all live. Notice, none of them include a 7 for a straight. I think (87, 76, 75) are all possible limping hands for this villain which are one pair + straight.

      The fact that I don’t block any of the villains value range or bluffing range is what shifts this hand to a fold in hindsight. I don’t block any of his bluffs. There are (16 one pair combos *4 + 9 two pair combos*6 + 3 set combos * 4 + 12 straight combos * 3) = (64 + 54 + 12 + 48) = 178 combos. I can only beat 64 of 178 combos.

  • steve-fredlund

    Member
    May 24, 2021 at 7:41 pm

    definitely some interesting play, which if we played more of the DPT I think we could all figure out ways to exploit. Thanks for coming up; really was looking for a deep run from you bud. Next time..

    • Michael

      Administrator
      May 26, 2021 at 2:01 pm

      Pretty much with Steve on this one. A lot of the field I played against had what felt like tight opening ranges and were comfortable playing for small pots, even considering some had loaded up for the full 50K in chips at the beginning meaning they started 500BB deep at level 1. Definitely some food for thought for future DPT events now that some of us have a taste for their play style.

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