Exactly. He might have folded to a larger sizing on the flop, but that's the risk you take when you bet small to entice a call. ANYBODY would probably call a backdoor nut flush draw with a 1/4 to 1/3 pot sized bet deep stacked like this.
I'm very surprised the hero didn't get stacked considering the runout but it's not necessarily a good thing. In a hand like this, you should get stacked.
@@michaelstephens9852 a whale is never folding a nut flush draw on the turn even if hero bets pot. You’re not sizing up to get folds. You’re sizing up for value.
Forget "playing ranges" @ a home game @ 3:30 AM AND everybody drinking.... "Pure Exploitative" is the Sesame Street phrase of scenarios exactly like this...
This hand is Exactly how I end up going home Broke. I would have Jammed on the turn. The Villian would have snapped called and the River of Pain would have come. The hero is pretty lucky the villain is terrible at bet sizing. 500$ raise was leaving way too much value behind. 800$ would have been the smallest I would have raised if I was worried he would fold an Ace.
In your hypothetical situation, why would we need to turn AKh into a bluff in the straddle? It's 400 to call, seems pretty easy to value call there instead of a raise.
Multiple blinds definitely change the game. I was on a lodge live stream a year and a half ago and it was a 5/10 game with mandatory 25 straddle. There was a $50 straddle probably half of the time. There was a hand where I had pocket threes on the cut off (acting first) but there was a $50 straddle, $100 straddle and a $200 straddle and the action was to me. I obviously folded with the entire table pretty much not acting yet with unknown hands and I would have flopped a set and turned a full house with two other people all in on the turn and it would’ve been about an $18,000 pot.
Bart doesn't see this stuff every day.... Last night I played suited KT, flop K52, turn 8, river 3. Guy calls me all the way and reveals K3. I was ready to quit poker.
Personally in these type of loose home games I think as hero in the SB you can 3-bet to a size of 240-260. If you go 4x the last bet and add all of the dead money, that’s what you’d get. It could’ve even gotten the straddle to fold K6 suited preflop.
I think AK off with King of Hearts would be a suicidal bluff attempt against a VIP like him and that too at these stakes. They never fold! For them Flush is a flush, a Straight is a straight no matter it’s nutted or not.
How do you bet more on the flop when drunks play Ace-anything? Then you combine alcohol & a side pot with the nut flush draw and nothing is getting him off the turn
This is why against whales I don't put these small bets out there to entice a call. They're going to call almost no matter what (I mean, runner runner hearts or a King would get you is what he's banking on, but you also said he was drunk). Gotta charge the call stations/whales that play loose.
This is why I hate fishing if I have a strong hands esp if I hit them on the turn pretty sure I will bet big or even shove all in coz I don’t want the villain to get lucky on the freaking river w/ his garbage hands!
