Alex - is this a play for a tourny, that you wouldn't make in a Cash Game?
If yes, is that just stack size related, or are there other factors?
Very interesting hand. A street by street explanation of your thought process would be good to hear.
Preflop
I play it similarly in a cash games w 100bb, purely because i wont make many mistakes with AA and 100bb in position. Deeper i 3b more, especially v a wide range, but v a nit/tight tag i play it the same a lot, probs raise/call 50/50.
Im tentatively hoping that Strobes tries some limp re-raise move with all the dead money as a bluff or has a hand he wants to go with, also, my hand is pretty well disguised here and i think RandomDonk seems capable, therefore trickier more deceptive lines will work better here (like if i 3b he will fold all KQ type hands that im praying he sees a flop with).
Flop
On the flop my hand is now the effective nuts, with all two pair draws villains can have rendered obsolete. Interestingly i would bet almost 100% of the time in a cash game if we were deep, as there are too many hands i can get value from if opponents are fish and it balances my stabbing range versus regs (like in a cash game if i had 78s i would bet here so would w AA too) and i bet a lot so wouldnt change that......
I didnt bet flop as flushy advocated as i think Strobes wont get too out of line with the tricky preflop raiser still active (wheras he might cr bluff/ for weird value (99?) HU) and if i bet i think Random donk will have to risk too much of his stack as a bluff for me to really get him to takeoff this early.
Turn
I expect random donk to fire the turn here with a chunk of his range when it goes check check check, my hand if i call turn looks a lot like 44-1010 and i think i might induce a river barrel by flatting. Raising serves a couple of purposes, like i can get him to stackoff with a FD sometimes and also if another highcard/flushcard comes i might lose some value from a hand like 1010 (say he has 1010 and river is the
- he has a hard time calling my riv bet) that check folds. Also in back of my mind is the fact i still have the spewtard to act and want him to do something dumb like crai a fd +/- overs with 16% equity, which im obv gagging for him to do.
River, when he shoves i though sigh, 1010, esp when he timedown shoved in fake desperation, but he has so many worse hands/bluffs i obv have one hand in the air. Sadly, he had JJ and pwned me
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