Hand Review: 10c/25c (FR) 3

[Punto Banco]

***** Hand History for Game 7465390070 ***** $25 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, October 17, 17:15:45 ET 2008 Table Table 128367 (Real Money) Seat 5 is the button Total number of players : 10 Seat 3: maathh ( $29.88 USD ) Seat 7: RounderSpade ( $25.87 USD ) Seat 8: MadeStronger ( $49.10 USD ) Seat 1: DannyOcean9 ( $5.32 USD ) Seat 10: wildnata ( $21.55 USD ) Seat 5: Morbius139 ( $28.14 USD ) Seat 6: black16mamba ( $4.50 USD ) Seat 2: MrsLabero ( $22.51 USD ) Seat 9: JustusHo ( $7.22 USD ) Seat 4: arrie50 ( $22.50 USD ) black16mamba posts small blind [$0.10 USD]. RounderSpade posts big blind [$0.25 USD]. ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to MadeStronger [ 7h 7s ] MadeStronger calls [$0.25 USD] JustusHo folds wildnata folds DannyOcean9 folds MrsLabero folds maathh raises [$1.25 USD] arrie50 folds Morbius139 folds black16mamba folds RounderSpade folds MadeStronger calls [$1 USD] ** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, Kc, 9s ] MadeStronger bets [$1.25 USD] maathh calls [$1.25 USD] ** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ] MadeStronger bets [$3.50 USD] maathh calls [$3.50 USD] ** Dealing River ** [ Ac ] MadeStronger bets [$5 USD] maathh raises [$10.25 USD] MadeStronger calls [$5.25 USD] Okay so what do we think the optimum way to play this hand is, I will run through my thoughts... Ok so firstly UTG limp is standard here hoping for a couple of callers which didn't happen however I feel I have the right type of image that I can take this pot down if I miss and it is the right type of flop. The raisers range is quite tight AK, AQ, KQ and above (perhaps an overpair, must be cautious). So anyway about that caution with the window a 7 fcuk that!!! Anyways I had chiped up earlier by slowplaying a set of A's (Kind of sp... infact I may put that hand up also) in any case with the K out there I figure to maximise my return I wont play this one soft. I put in a below 1/2 pot bet to perhaps give him a chance to push hard w AQ etc as other than the trap I have been fairly straight forward as far as the table has seen (Basically I feel he would be comfortable getting it in with KQ against me but if he missed may see this bet as a weak steal attempt). Anyways call. This bet is a little bigger however I still want to keep him in with medium hands (Perhaps JJ, QQ). The call puzzles me... unless he has decided to play it safe with KQ on the flop and then slow play (I am 100% he doesn't think I am semi bluffing with a flush draw) it which i am happy for him to call my value bets all the way. The final card obviously scares me a little however I feel that the chance of him having the flush over KQ or AK is smaller and so betting is wiser (could be wrong here. I keep seeing that perhaps my river play isn't the best or at least I am often a lot more unsure about what I should be doing on the river than at any other stage in the hand) in any case I have almost accepted defeat (hoping he has AK at this point) but with my pot odds at about 3.5:1 I can't fold here... any thoughts?

[Nade]

Re: Hand Review: 10c/25c (FR) 3 Back in my FR days i'd have played the hand pretty much the same. Only thing worth thinking about is the open limp with 77, when playing FR i open limped all pairs below tens and it worked a treat but thinking back on it now it makes your hand very 'face up' if you're getting aggro. post flop. I don't know how much you open limp, especially UTG, so although unlikely people are paying that much attention in this situation i think for disguise value it could be best to open raise any hands you normally open limp with. Because if you only open limp pairs then all of a sudden you're uber aggro post flop it becomes pretty obvious what's going on, i.e. you're aggro when you hit a set etc. I know the open limp strat. works because i did it for ages on PKR the only site i've played FR on but on that site they are/were the worst players ever and never adjusted. But just saying it's worth thinking about changing that strat. though not major ATM. Plus maybe bet closer to the pot on the turn like $5 as there's tonnes of draws out there but river is very likely to be a cooler, it's worth calling just to see if they're a huge calling station with like 54c or whatever and make a note.