PAHWM: 1/2 NLHE, 77 on the button (1 Viewer)

[Beakertwang]

I was playing 1/2 at my local casino. It’s a typical low stakes game in a small casino. Very friendly, lots of limping, and limp calling with wide ranges, very little 3-betting pre.

To give an example of how this game plays: I hadn’t really played a hand in the first hour. I only saw one flop other than in the blinds. I have AA in late position. There are 3 limpers, so I raise to $15. I get 6 (SIX!) callers. Flop is Kxx, two hearts. Big blind leads for $20, call, call, short stack puts in his last $40. Action on me, so I jam my last $160. Big blind calls, and one other shorty calls. Big blind has Ah6h, no pair, and I hold for a $500 scoop.

After a couple hours, I had lost a bit (about $125 on one hand when my flopped set of jacks loses to a rivered flush—he has a “special relationship” with 52 sooted. )

Hero stack $340. No short stacks involved in the hand. Main villain has just about $300.

Hero on button with

EP opens to 12, MP calls, villain calls.

Action on hero.

 

[Beakertwang]

Main villain is retirement age, probably one of the better players at the game. Limps too much, but plays aggressively with strong hands, abd is capable of making good folds when beat.

 

[grebe]

Against an ep raise, I'm calling here probably to set mine. You could try to 3 bet, but I think it's pretty ambitious. Unless I see obvious weakness, I am going in to "no set no bet" mode. We are ok letting other players in... But against somebody else's 3 bet, we probably should fold.

 

[JoeBGo]

Pretty sure I’m calling and hoping to set mine. I don’t think you’d get much isolation with a raise. Reevaluate on the flop.

 

[upNdown]

I’m flatting here, but I suck at cash

 

[Moxie Mike]

Flatting is pretty standard here. Pocket sevens may be the only pair in the field, but realizing your equity against multiple opponents is going to be difficult.

About the only way to justify a raise would 1) require some very opponent-specific reads; and 2) Would need to be done with the intention of taking down the pot without any resistance (I.E. a very large bet). This is very dangerous though... because you really can't call if any of your opponents play back at you.

So what happened next? I'm impatient today.

 

[Beakertwang]

So what happened next? I'm impatient today.

Just for that, I’m not moving to the flop till tomorrow.

 

[Taghkanic]

To get any folds in this field (as described), with three players committed for $12, ~$39 in the pot before rake, and the blinds left to act, you would presumably have to bet huge to take it down pre.

If you bet “only” pot, you are probably still getting 1-2 callers. The EP 6x opener is uncapped, and at this stack depth you probably won’t be getting correct set mining odds if he 4bets/jams on you. You’d have to fold.

Seems like a flat call, and if either blind reraises big, gotta get out. Hope to see a $12 flop and catch your set or some weird straight draw.

You’re in position, so the flat is a little easier to play postflop.

 

[boltonguy]

Not 3! this hand vs EP range generally and based on the perceived lack of FE here not going to get out of line.
Call to set mine.

 

[Beakertwang]

So this seemed like a pretty easy call here. Hero calls, as does the big blind. Pot ~$55 after rake.

Flop is Hero has bottom set.

Pre-flop raiser bets $20, MP calls. Villain raises to $100. Pot is $195. Hero has approximately $325 in his stack.

Action?

 

[Taghkanic]

Jam.

Your set is unlikely to improve, and this is your last chance to meaningfully charge draws at this stack depth.

If you just call you will have only $225 left with a pot of $295 before any further betting on the turn.

Villain has less than $190 behind after putting in his $100. So if you call the flop and he shoves almost all turns, the pot will swell to around $485 before you act.

You would be getting better than 3:1 odds and probably have to call even when a likely flush or (less likely) straight draw comes in.

So get it in now. He might have a better set, but AA/AK plus many other Broadway combos and all the obvious draws are more likely.

Even if villain makes a flush on the turn, you have some emergency equity when the board pairs, unless he also flopped a set.

 

[colter ripton]

Its an obvious jam here

 

[boltonguy]

Agree with the jam. Calling pre should take KK out of V's range so you only need to worry about TT which should 3! pre as well generally.
Maybe V is flatting TT pre, but there's only 3 combos compared to 38 combos of AK, KT, 77 in V's range that he could play this way.
If he doesnt have TT you're ahead so get it in.

 

[Coyote]

I just flat.
Problem with flop-happy people is that they won't fold unless you go all-in, which you will not do with 77.

 

[JoeBGo]

Pretty sure based on that flop and subsequent action, I jam and pray.

 

[grebe]

So this seemed like a pretty easy call here. Hero calls, as does the big blind. Pot ~$55 after rake.

Flop is Hero has bottom set.

Pre-flop raiser bets $20, MP calls. Villain raises to $100. Pot is $195. Hero has approximately $325 in his stack.

Action?

Yeah, this an easy shove. You are surely up against at least one draw and a worse made hand, but likely everybody has equity against you. Shove to deny equity and get your money in good. Every now and then, you will run in to KK or TT... But those are rare. I expect done flush draws, straight draws, top pairs, maybe even KT to have a great time laying it down

 

[grebe]

I just flat.
Problem with flop-happy people is that they won't fold unless you go all-in, which you will not do with 77.

No offense, but flatting is a big mistake. You have three people showing interest and the pot is massive. Even if we take the pot down now (doubtful), we folded out a bunch of equity against us, which is good. Only two hands have us beat, and if they have those hands we are getting stacked.

 

[Beakertwang]

This wasn't a terribly difficult hand, but had an interesting conclusion.

Hero stack $340. No short stacks involved in the hand. Main villain has just about $300.

Hero on button with

EP opens to 12, MP calls, villain calls.

So this seemed like a pretty easy call here. Hero calls, as does the big blind. Pot ~$55 after rake.

Flop is Hero has bottom set.

Pre-flop raiser bets $20, MP calls. Villain raises to $100. Pot is $195. Hero has approximately $325 in his stack.

Action?

I did think for a bit about a call, thinking that could bring one of the other players into the pot, but I didn't want have to fade more draws. There was no way villain had KK, but of course TT was a possibility. He probably wouldn't 3! TT pre. Most likely was AK, KQ, or KT. From my limited experience against him, I believe he would flat if he were drawing. I decided I'd be happy to take down the pot now if I could, and knew I had to be WAY ahead of anything except a combo draw, i.e. AhQh, QhJh, Jh9h, etc., so I jammed. Action folds around to the villain, who hems and haws for a bit, and says something like "I suppose you're sending me home for the night". He asks me if I know about running it twice, and I respond with affirmatively He finally makes the call.

I tell him I'm fine running it twice, which turns out to be fortunate for me.

Villain has . First board runs out , giving him the nut flush. Second board bricks out, and we chop.

I'm a 90% favorite there, but things don't always work out. I'm glad I decided not to get greedy.

 

[BamaT8ter]

I think you played this right, or at least the same way my dumb ass would have played it.

 

[Beakertwang]

I think you played this right, or at least the same way my dumb ass would have played it.

No need to insult me!