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ryodejaneiro wrote:Okay, a $5 heads up SNG with starting stacks of 1500 chips. At this
point, I had a chip lead of 2090 to 910 as well. Blinds were at 10-20
when the hand below occurred.
My question is, how bad of a
play was this on my part? A note about hands before this. This guy
tended to be a limper preflop but I hadn't gotten a good feel of his
play even after a decent number of hands. (BTW, I couldn't quite
convert the hand in any program, so I'm providing the details manually)
I'm dealt Ac7c on the SB. I min raise to 40, and the guy of
course calls from the BB (pot = 120). Flop comes 4d, 2c, 8h. I bet 80
and he flat calls me (pot = 280). Turn comes 5c and I check, he bets
150 and after a moment of hesitation, I call (pot = 580). River comes
Jc for a flush but I check, and he bets 220. I raise to 550 and he
calls and flips over KK. Needless to say, the guy starts cursing saying
how bad of a suckout this was. This hand left him with less than a 100
chips and I knocked him out shortly thereafter.
So my question
is, how bad of a play was this on my part? I missed the flop but I bet
out to see what he'd do (nothing wrong there). The guy simply calls,
which was a bit suspicious. The turn gives me a flush draw (9 outs) and
gut-shot straight draw with me needing a 6 (3 outs since 6c accounted
for). Because I didn't have a pair and I pegged the guy for top pair
(figuring he'd check if he had a set), a 7 wouldn't be of help but
another ace could help (3 more outs). That's 15 outs or about 30% to
make the winning hand on the river. After he bet out 150, I was getting
about 3 to 1 on a call (more exact calculation comes out to 2.87 to 1),
so I basically needed 25% (1/4) or better to call, which I did. I think
I'm adding up all the numbers right. Anyway, thoughts on this hand?
I'll go ahead and reply to this before anyone else comments on how he
played his hand poorly. Had he been playing this in a full ring in a
multi-way pot, yeah I'd have to call him a moron. Heads up though,
you've got to not only take some chances with mediocre hands and stone
cold bluffs, but you've got to take some risks trapping with big pairs,
checking nuts, etc. Each of these scenarios will backfire form time to
time in a HU game, but they'll pay off more often than not.That
being said, let's take a look at how you played this hand. First off,
you've got him covered 2 to 1. I like the aggression with the suited
ace and the solid chip lead. He flat called, so maybe he's got anything
at this point.Good follow through on the flop. Maybe he missed and you get the pot. Another flat call. Nothing you can do about that.You
nail a ton of outs on the turn. Pot odds are good. Implied odds make it
worth an even bigger call, but we'll stick to the pot. If you folded
there, I could've said something at this point about how you played the
hand wrong. But you made a good call. His bet was enough to put you on
bad odds for a primary draw, and honestly was a good bet on his part.
The problem for him is that your draw was better than primary, giving
you good odds. If he puts you on a primary draw hand, then he has to be
willing to get away if a club, ace, or a 6 hits the board (depending on
the hand he puts you on).Nuts come on the river, so you can't
play that wrong with a raise. He made the mistake of calling your check
raise:
1) A check raise is more often than not the sign of a very
strong hand.
2) He put out a perfect bet to give bad odds to a flush
draw, which means he's got to take the chips when it doesn't come, and
get away when it does if he wants to profit in poker.I give you
an A+ on this hand. I would also give your opponent a very high grade,
but I'd have to dock him for the way he handled his loss and his call
of the river check-raise. By grade and by chips, you win.Well played!
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