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Krab42 (Barewire) 600NL Interesting K-hi Hand

Krab42 (Barewire) reviews an interesting hand played at 600NL on PokerStars. He uses the PokerTracker 4 replayer to review the hand. Check out his Heads Up NL Video Pack today. He also has an Advanced HU Cash Class Video Pack too.

3onthego's picture
Really? Looks an awful lot

Really? Looks an awful lot like a flush draw which is making a last ditch attempt. Would have to be a huge XR to push a ace or 2pair off calling. Given we don't actually see the move being made I guess this is just theoretical?

Barewire's picture
I think the only reason I

I think the only reason I didn't post the river action is because he decided to check behind. I think because I like to have both a turn and river x/r game that flush draws are more suited to x/r the turn (higher equity when behind and lower showdown value). Getting to the river I rarely have pure air and this is both a strong blocker hand and very near the bottom of my range getting to the river. It seems like an obvious choice to bluff with for those reasons. 
The point you made implies that you think it's exploitatively correct to never bluff here (or to bluff even more rarely than I already do), which might be right against certain players, but isn't really the type of stuff I was discussing in this video. Hope that helps!

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Kezman's picture
What does the rest of your

What does the rest of your range look like?

This looks like a missed draw or something weak that decided to get turned into a bluff on the river. I can't think of any hands I'd play like that for value on this board. Sets, straights, twopairs all raised flop or turn because it is way way too wet. So what xCalls turn to xR river?


movingonup87's picture
I think this example

I think this example emphasizes playing against your opponent's range more than it does balancing your own. Villain, according to Ryan, polarizes his range by betting the turn here to at least top pair or nothing, which means he's betting the river with his bluffs a lot of the time and can be checkraised off them with the bottom of Ryan's range, though I've run into people who mostly always give up on the river unless they have what they think is a value hand, in which case I think it makes sense to check/raise the flop. 
I don't plan well enough to plan to check/raise bluff the river from the beginning of the hand while ensuring that it's going to work enough of the time. Readless, I would check/raise this flop with most anything so as to protect my value range, and I would occassionally call with sets, two pair, and a hand like K7 with the K of hearts in order to protect my calling range. 
I think most people won't believe you on the river here, and that you're going to be called down fairly light because your own range is very polarized after raising, and there just aren't enough really strong drawing combos that got there that you could have, but since you put his range on mostly bluffs, I guess it makes sense.