Villain is a winning player, but not the best player.Im in doubt if my play was right. He was pretty aggro pre and raising close to 75% IP pre. So he has alot of air in hes range. I think its a pretty standard call by me pre. Its not that bad against hes range.On the flop he minbets, i see that as weakness. Why shouldt he min bet a K there and maybe loose value?? I raise him to find out where i am in the hand. If he hold K, he must definetely reraise me, yes? Well, he calls. Looks like a draw to me. Turn he makes it half pot, that doesnt look like a K. No, im pretty sure he doesnt hold a K. I call. I check again and he bets 400. Hmm.. Maybe hes holding a K anyway?? If he hits hes 9 on turn, he will close to everytime check the river. I think for about 10 sec and call.Can i justify a call here?? No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter BTNnickvanommen1330 BBHero1670 Effective Stacks: 67bb Blinds 10/20 Pre-Flop (30, 2 players) Hero is BB nickvanommen raises to 60, Hero calls 40 Flop (120, 2 players) Hero checks, nickvanommen bets 20, Hero raises to 80, nickvanommen calls 60 Turn (280, 2 players) Hero checks, nickvanommen bets 160, Hero calls 160 River (600, 2 players) Hero checks, nickvanommen bets 400, Hero calls 400
hmmm I think your c/r is fine I think you can get called by worse 7x and flush draws on the turn I think it's a call but on the river I think he looks quite strong, the turn and the river are not exactly the best 2 cards to barrel, but I don't know if he would checked back a missed flush draw here or not. What was your image like were you playing aggro I guess he could have done this to induce a raise from you if he is a winning player? I recon the river has to be a fold.
This hand is really all over the place, I'll try and just comment on the thought process. Preflop i think Q7s is a marginally bad call against a 3bb open, I'd call it against someone who opens 100% but not 75%. It's not a big deal, what's more concerning is that on the flop you want to raise to define his range, and then make a bunch of guesses as to what his actions mean. You have a marginal hand, you don't want to bloat the pot because he'll fold all his bluffs when you raise and you're not doing well against a range of draws and made hands with only 2nd pair. Call the flop, don't check/raise with such a weak value hand. When you check/call you know less about his exact hand but you allow him to have low equity bluffs, which doesn't happen when you bloat the pot with a c/raise. Starting from there, you can check/call or check/fold on future streets depending on his sizing and the board runout, but there's no need to try and guess at his exact hand because of bet sizing tells that you haven't even developed on him yet.
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