Saturday, September 12, 2009

Hi Guys,

This is my first post, so here goes. Villain is a 46/16 donky, agg% is 31%, wtsd 45%, donks 32%.

The hand is at pokerhand.org http://www.pokerhand.org/?4684697

So I bluff raise his flop donk, as I have a note that his 1/3 pot donks are bluffs/weak pairs. When he calls and donks the turn, i don't want to shut him out ( I think) as i pretty much put him on a 1 pair hand. Theres a ton of scary river cards, but I think he keeps bluffing, or I can v-bet the river.

So, the river doesn't really change much. I can't see any value in raising the river either, as my read is he is weak here.

Thoughts on all streets?


Mark

3 comments:

  1. Mutltiway with the other person in the pot, I'm not sure I like the flop raise. It very much depends on the read you have on Mrpotto. He's not folding any overpairs, lower sc's have hit gin, either with a big draw or pair and draw or 2pair.

    Back to villian though. When he calls your raise then donks the turn, as much as it would grieve me, I think I'm folding. All we have is a bluff catcher and he's never going to let you see a free card on the river so I think you can end up being value towned by straights and two pairs.

    Being that bluffy he'll spew off to you anyway.

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  2. Welcome by the way:) Sorry I forgot to say that!

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  3. I might pitch on the flop because of the player left to act. I like a raise better than a call, given your description and the guy behind. I doubt a weak one pair will call.

    Let him spew on the turn and fire the river again? This has some merits... but that WTSD suggests this might be a nice time to get in the driver's seat. The bet has something of a "probe bet" feel. I'd suggest raising small to get a call from a worse hand. Minraise and set up a chance to make a second value bet on the river. If the river card sucks (I'd say a four sucks vs. his range), you can just check.

    In this strategy, I would definitely fold in the villain fired back on the turn and might pitch it to a big river donkbet.

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