At the risk of running into another slew of "it's player dependent" responses, I'm seeking some input as to how to extract value in pots where I hold a monster. Obviously, it's player dependent, but as a baseline does it make sense simply to steam ahead and hope to be called/bluff-raised...rather than trying to slow play at micro stakes?
In the 2000 or so hands thus far, I've run into this a fair number of times. Here's a very recent example. All I know about this guy is that, in the immediately prior hand, he stacked off on the flop with a horrendous holding. Note how terrible his pre flop calls (plural) were. So, on the very next hand, when I flop 2 pair and river a boat, I'm not afraid of being beat and am concerned from the outset on how to get max value out of this chump. My river check (hoping for a bluff) didn't work.....
Thoughts?
$100 swing...the wrong way
13 years ago
1 comment:
Interesting hand and I'm not really sure what's best here. Here are my thoughts:
-Obviously if villain was chasing hearts, we are better off checking to induce a bluff since he won't call a 3rd street. But what hearts does he call with on the flop?
-In the previous hand, villain has shown that he can stack off light with a draw. He went nuts with a gut shot + over + backdoor flush, so I can't help but think that if villain turned the heart draw here he'd be looking to get it in ASAP. This suggests to me that villain has Qx or a weak ace and just wants to get to showdown.
-The river effectively didn't change the board at all, so if villain is calling the turn with a weak pair he should be calling the river with the exact same range.
I bet here, probably around $0.95 since the pot is too small to just put villain in. My default line with big hands is just to bet/bet/bet and not try to get tricky/trappy. The biggest mistake an average microstakes player makes is calling too much, and I'm happy to be an enabler for that.
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