by Kuso » Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:23 am
hand 1
cap flop... doesn't really matter since you get stacked anyway (assuming cards are the same). i'd also consider a reraise pf depending on how loosely villain raises.
hand 2
pf. flop, turn are all ok, imo -- that is, i think it's one of several viable lines. the river push... i dunno. i'd just call the bet since you only have an overpair.
i can also see value-pushing if villain calls down light all the time, but what do you think you're beating here? villain could have AA, KK, the other QQ, JJ, 99, 88, and maybe 9x (like an sc or suited ace) to beat you, and you beat TT, Jx, 8x, and 4x (most of which don't call your river raise). if you're going to induce a bluff, i would just call it if successful.
hand 3
fine -- this line reps an overpair. depending on reads (esp. af and/or agg freq), i might lay down to the flop bet (esp. to an ABC player). he likes his hand enough to bet into the pf raiser, so i have to have a read that he's "tricky" or bets marginal hands like this for the raise to be a good play.
hand 4
the min raise on the flop reeks of A-rag that hit or a set. continuing with this hand is a leak unless you think you can push him off his hand. if you want to play it, i'd repop the flop a healthy amount to find out if he really likes his hand. at the 50s, though, i'm not sure if you really want to try to get people to lay down 2pr.
hand 5
ok... classic coinflip. you'll win some and lose some. you really better be certain that you almost never see a bigger pair here, though. i doubt that's the case.
hand 6
i'd bet more on the turn if i'm going to bet. i'd really like a read on villain to figure out if he was chasing the flush. i can't believe villain played his hand so weakly (e.g., reraise pf would be nice, leading out flop would work, raising flop is possible).
hand 7
LEAK... assuming villain is your plain vanilla ABC player, his line screams overpair and you gift-wrapped your stack for him. i realize this somewhat contradicts my comments in hand 6, but my point is that you stuck your whole stack in while hand 6 villain could have tested the waters with a much smaller portion of his stack (and likely won).
wwcrd?
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