PAHWM: Ignition Zone Monotone Board (1 Viewer)

[boltonguy]

25NL 6-max anonymous fast fold. No reads, no HUDs.
Folds to Hero in +1 with Hero opens to 3BB / $0.75 which is standard..
Hero is effective stack with $34.09.
Folds to Villain in BB who flats.

Flop comes . Villain checks. Pot is $1.60.

Hero?

 

[stellrnebula]

Solvers recommend betting 1/3 pot roughly half of the time and checking half of the time on monotone boards. I would recommend thinking critically about which hands in your range should fall into each category. This hand almost certainly belongs in your betting range since it can comfortably bet spade turns for value twice and gains more equity on off suit Q/T/7 turns.

 

[boltonguy]

25NL 6-max anonymous fast fold. No reads, no HUDs.
Folds to Hero in +1 with Hero opens to 3BB / $0.75 which is standard..
Hero is effective stack with $34.09.
Folds to Villain in BB who flats.

Flop comes . Villain checks. Pot is $1.60.
Hero bets $0.50 or 1/3 pot. Villain calls. Turn is . Villain checks. Pot is $2.60.

Hero?

 

[boltonguy]

25NL 6-max anonymous fast fold. No reads, no HUDs.
Folds to Hero in +1 with Hero opens to 3BB / $0.75 which is standard..
Hero is effective stack with $34.09.
Folds to Villain in BB who flats.

Flop comes . Villain checks. Pot is $1.60.
Hero bets $0.50 or 1/3 pot. Villain calls. Turn is . Villain checks. Pot is $2.60.

Hero checks for pot control. River is . Villain checks.

Hero?

 

[DrStrange]

Preflop looks standard

Flopping a monochrome board is going to kill a lot of villain hands. Hero should be c-betting wide and villain should defend wide. Small bets work fine. Villain will fold his "no pair, no spade" hands a lot.

The turn is not quite a brick, but it certainly didn't help Hero's hand. Villain is often ahead here and not likely to fold. Hero isn't going to survive a check raise. Let's take the free card.

The river is tricky. What sort of hand could villain have that calls a river bet? Maybe a straight? The queen high flush for sure. Perhaps even a ten high flush.

What is Hero's plan if he gets check-raised? It is hard to fold that king high flush. I suspect Hero is going to call down much of the time.

So, does the risk of losing to the better flush overwhelm the potential of value? Yikes! That is a tough question. And perhaps why this hand got posted.

I think Hero needs to get some value from his flush. But the bet has to be small enough for villain to call with much of his range. Let's try $1. Hero will call a small check raise - but only a small one.

It was hard to ignore the hand is a posted one here. I expect villain is about to take Hero to value town. But only because the hand is flagged as being special.

DrStrange

 

[boltonguy]

25NL 6-max anonymous fast fold. No reads, no HUDs.
Folds to Hero in +1 with Hero opens to 3BB / $0.75 which is standard..
Hero is effective stack with $34.09.
Folds to Villain in BB who flats.

Flop comes . Villain checks. Pot is $1.60.
Hero bets $0.50 or 1/3 pot. Villain calls. Turn is . Villain checks. Pot is $2.60.

Hero checks for pot control. River is . Villain checks.
Hero bets $0.75 or about 1/3 pot. Villain re-raises to $3.24. Pot is $6.59.

Hero?