Kenric posted a poker hand in his blog. I posted a comment and he thought I should post it here. Here you go:
Kenric's post about the hand:
"Second, my friend who is the professional poker player stayed with me during the week. I have to admit that having him sit next to me and coach me on how to play definitely inspires confidence.
I will give you one example which I had to sit down and figure out later.
Dealt to Kenric [Kh Qd]
Kenric: raises $0.60 to $0.80
3 folds
Villian: calls $0.60
*** FLOP *** [9d 7s Qh]
Villian: checks
Kenric: bets $1.00
Villian: raises $1.40 to $2.40
Kenric: calls $1.40
(I hope I remember this right, Bill please chime in if I butcher this analysis) AQ would check raise, maybe 99 or 77, but most likely those hands would just call. No other hand that would beat me should be here now. AA,KK would/should have reraised PF. Q7, Q9, 97 shouldn’t be here.
*** TURN *** [9d 7s Qh] [7h]
Villian: bets $3.25
Kenric: calls $3.25
With the turn bet, he ruled out 77 because quads would not bet here. He said that the villian was representing he had 99 with that bet.
*** RIVER *** [9d 7s Qh 7h] [8h]
Villian: bets $7.90
Kenric: calls $7.90
Villian made a nice size bet which I had to call.
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Villian: shows [Kc 6c] (Pair of Sevens)
Kenric: shows [Kh Qd] (Two Pairs, Queens and Sevens)
Kenric collected $27.40 from pot
Of course, I still don’t really understand this too well. But it took him about 1 second to read my opponent’s possible hands. I don’t think most people understand the type of detailed thought that goes into a split second decision of an online poker player."
my response:
"Ya, you had it pretty much right. AQ will usually call, but will sometimes check raise at these stakes. 99 and 77 are in the check-raising range. It’s a rainbow flop(3 different suits), so there’s no flush draw that would play it like this, and at these stakes semi-bluffing draws is not very common, so he’s basically repping 77 or 99 here. When the turn brings a 7, and he bets, it’s not necessarily that he wouldn’t bet quads, but that the chance that he actually has quads here is slim to none because he’d need the only 2 cards in the deck to make that happen, and we know he didn’t check-raise the flop with just one seven because he’d want to continue on cheaply with the hand because his 7 might be good, he wouldn’t want to bloat the pot. So on the turn, his hand is usually going to be 99, or a bluff. When he follows through on the river, his range doesn’t really change. He may have AQ, he may have 99, or he is bluffing. Also, one thing I don’t think I mentioned when you were playing the hand is that if he did have a Q here he may not fire on the river because a 7 is out there.(many players at the lower stakes won’t break down you’re range, to understand that a 7 is not in it once you call his check-raise on the flop), so you won’t see a Q very often from him, and a bluff is as likely if not more likely than 99, and you already have money in the pot. Many players at these stakes won’t realize that there’s nothing different about the texture of the board to make his bluff successful on the river when it wasn’t on the flop and turn. In other words, there’s no scare cards to scare you into a fold based on the fact that there were no flop flush draws, and he won’t realize this and often players like this will feel like they can bluff their way out of trouble, which is their only option unless they want to just give up, which they may not like in this hand."
i'll try and make a post soon about poker strategy to help people who might be starting out.
Kenric's post about the hand:
"Second, my friend who is the professional poker player stayed with me during the week. I have to admit that having him sit next to me and coach me on how to play definitely inspires confidence.
I will give you one example which I had to sit down and figure out later.
Dealt to Kenric [Kh Qd]
Kenric: raises $0.60 to $0.80
3 folds
Villian: calls $0.60
*** FLOP *** [9d 7s Qh]
Villian: checks
Kenric: bets $1.00
Villian: raises $1.40 to $2.40
Kenric: calls $1.40
(I hope I remember this right, Bill please chime in if I butcher this analysis) AQ would check raise, maybe 99 or 77, but most likely those hands would just call. No other hand that would beat me should be here now. AA,KK would/should have reraised PF. Q7, Q9, 97 shouldn’t be here.
*** TURN *** [9d 7s Qh] [7h]
Villian: bets $3.25
Kenric: calls $3.25
With the turn bet, he ruled out 77 because quads would not bet here. He said that the villian was representing he had 99 with that bet.
*** RIVER *** [9d 7s Qh 7h] [8h]
Villian: bets $7.90
Kenric: calls $7.90
Villian made a nice size bet which I had to call.
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Villian: shows [Kc 6c] (Pair of Sevens)
Kenric: shows [Kh Qd] (Two Pairs, Queens and Sevens)
Kenric collected $27.40 from pot
Of course, I still don’t really understand this too well. But it took him about 1 second to read my opponent’s possible hands. I don’t think most people understand the type of detailed thought that goes into a split second decision of an online poker player."
my response:
"Ya, you had it pretty much right. AQ will usually call, but will sometimes check raise at these stakes. 99 and 77 are in the check-raising range. It’s a rainbow flop(3 different suits), so there’s no flush draw that would play it like this, and at these stakes semi-bluffing draws is not very common, so he’s basically repping 77 or 99 here. When the turn brings a 7, and he bets, it’s not necessarily that he wouldn’t bet quads, but that the chance that he actually has quads here is slim to none because he’d need the only 2 cards in the deck to make that happen, and we know he didn’t check-raise the flop with just one seven because he’d want to continue on cheaply with the hand because his 7 might be good, he wouldn’t want to bloat the pot. So on the turn, his hand is usually going to be 99, or a bluff. When he follows through on the river, his range doesn’t really change. He may have AQ, he may have 99, or he is bluffing. Also, one thing I don’t think I mentioned when you were playing the hand is that if he did have a Q here he may not fire on the river because a 7 is out there.(many players at the lower stakes won’t break down you’re range, to understand that a 7 is not in it once you call his check-raise on the flop), so you won’t see a Q very often from him, and a bluff is as likely if not more likely than 99, and you already have money in the pot. Many players at these stakes won’t realize that there’s nothing different about the texture of the board to make his bluff successful on the river when it wasn’t on the flop and turn. In other words, there’s no scare cards to scare you into a fold based on the fact that there were no flop flush draws, and he won’t realize this and often players like this will feel like they can bluff their way out of trouble, which is their only option unless they want to just give up, which they may not like in this hand."
i'll try and make a post soon about poker strategy to help people who might be starting out.
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