another day another session

Finished up a buyin against a very tight player. He was very nitty and started out being easy to float, then he caught me a few times and started to loosen up.

As I'm writing this I'm having idle thoughts of needing to checkraise more and being aware that I don't make large bluffs very often and might want to rethink that slightly.

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I took bet-check-bet because I didn't think the guy would call twice with an ace but could sense weakness with a jack or pocket pair. I dunno what he actually had; a jack with a weak kicker or like nines?

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He tanked forever on the river before calling. I started bluffing him less and valuetowning him more after this one.

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Arrrrgh I hate value betting into better hands. Preflop is loose but not too bad since the guy is still giving up on a lot of turns. The timing on the turn was such that I felt like he had ace high and I wanted to get a hero call on the river. Third pair is actually pretty close to ace high there because fours, threes, and deuces are in like none of my preflop ranges.

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I should raise more on the river, $15 is better. I was too scared of the flush, but since I'm folding to a threebet I think $15 is fine.

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This kinda sucks because on the turn I'm screaming "I have AK, bluff me!" and I might've gotten post-oaked on that river but he would have to have AdXd for his line to make any sort of sense with air.

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The turn basically turns my hand into a bluff but that's okay because the flop checkraise represents 5x too. I need to checkraise more flops; I'm probably missing a lot of value.

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I dunno what I was thinking on that turn, guy isn't aggro enough to bet a flush draw so his worst holding here is like 98. Actually I think I remember contemplating a shove but that's bad too.

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Because of how the last few threebet hands played out and because of the board I wanted to c/c the turn and b/f a nonspade river (vomit and probably c/f a spade river) to max value from his bluffs because he's probably crushed but given how the AK hands played out he might take a stab. River I'm trying to represent a frustrated As but I guess it didn't work out; $15?

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After that small raise on backdoored Broadway I decided to bet like an adult here, figuring that if he's calling any reasonable raise it's probably safer to make it larger because I think he calls $30 and $35 roughly the same frequency.

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I think this is standard; in position with a fairly well hidden flush draw that will probably be paid off my implied odds on the turn are super good. The seven gives my hand showdown value but worse hands never call obv.

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Was just gonna float flop, then made a pair. I don't think he'll bet the river without a king so I don't like c/c but not a lot of his turn holdings have a king in them so the only argument for betting smaller is giving better odds to worse pairs.

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Checkraising the turn looks a lot stronger than giving him 3:1 on the river. Shoving the flop is bad because if he has AJ I only have twelve outs and am the flip bitch, and my implied odds are pretty good. (not to say if he has AJ and the river is the 4d that I don't go broke, but I try hard not to stack myself.)

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I can actually feel him tilting. (river call: trips over trips HU getting 4:1 = call)

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I dunno if the above hand makes this a better or a worse call.

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I kinda want to valuebet this river but why would a jack checkraise this flop.

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It's a reraised pot, let's get it in before the turn is a deuce or a club. In retrospect, there's some merit in playing the hand for maximum death and flat calling the flop and checkraising any nondeuce turn all in, maybe c/cing a club turn because the Ac is unaccounted for but then I'm gonna have an unpleasant river experience.

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I dunno what to do if I don't turn the draw. Like, I don't beat much, which I guess mostly just means I should fold preflop, but that's a smallish threebet and I have some measure of implied odds on a lot of flops. I think without it I just call three streets and if we have full stacks and he shoves the turn or river probably reluctantly fold. Still, he showed up here with AQ!

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I am a weak-tight nit. I seriously thought about quitting him right here, but didn't because I didn't hate my logic. He's c/c'd all reraised flops so far. I have to check the turn, and he will then bet and I'll have to fold or shove, and shoving sucks because if I had a hand I'd just bet the flop. I can call once because my hand is so obviously weak but I think when he bets twice he has a weak pair / is basically never bluffing a worse ace high (particularly since AT et al have some measure of showdown value when I've been this passive) and I have to fold.

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arrgh value betting worse hands :x. I think it's fine because I think Kx folds the turn and if he has Ax I think second pair good kicker is fine for two bets.