{"id":1344,"date":"2018-11-07T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.coinpoker.com\/tr\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2018-11-07T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:32:09","slug":"melika-hand-analysis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/melika-hand-analysis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"High Stakes Hand Analysis with Pro Player Melika Razavi P2"},"content":{"rendered":"

High stakes regular, magician, pageant queen, and CoinPoker ambassador Melika Razavi loves hitting the cash game tables. To give our community some insight into her pot-winning strategies, Melika will walk you through two great hands step-by-step.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Short Deck Showdown that Never Happens<\/h2>\n

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I’m playing a <\/span>25\/50 Short Deck <\/b>3-way when I pick up <\/span>J7d\u00a0<\/b>on the button. All suited hands on the button are a must open in this game, since flush beats a full house. Flush is basically almost always the nuts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Small blind folds, and “Skolnlex” in the big blind calls my 3x open raise. The flop is <\/span>87Tssc <\/b>and I check (I only have a bottom pair and a gutshot). I’ve got a little bit of showdown value already, and there’s no reason to build a big pot or to bluff.<\/span><\/p>\n

With pair and a gutshot, I don\u2019t mind seeing the turn and river to win in a showdown with a pair. However, I’d rather bluff on this flop when I have a gutshot without a pair.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turn <\/span>Qs <\/b>goes check-check for the same reason as before, and when the river gives a <\/span>6s<\/b>, a fourth spade, then I have close to zero showdown value. My pair of sevens will almost never win if I check behind, so I have to bet around half the pot to represent a nine to ace-high flush.<\/span><\/p>\n

My opponent folded, which he should do with any pair, most two pairs, and even some sets and straights are possible if we break down the hand in a solver.<\/span><\/p>\n

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An Incomplete Bluff Lands Melika the Pot<\/h2>\n

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This hand comes up in a <\/span>heads up 50\/100\u00a0<\/b>and I’m playing “4FIAT”. \u00a0I open-raise <\/span>3bb\u00a0<\/b>with <\/span>QcQh\u00a0<\/b>from the button, and “4FIAT” defends his big blind.<\/span><\/p>\n

The flop is <\/span>AcJs9s<\/b>, “4FIAT” checks and I place a continuation bet of <\/span>200 into 600\u00a0<\/b>(1\/3 of the pot). A 1\/3 cbet size is a size that allows us to have very high cbet frequency. I can cbet very light for value and afford to have many cbet bluffs when only betting 33% of the pot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Because I assume a 3bet preflop to happen 100% of the time with those hands with these stakes in a heads up match, I decide to call.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“4FIAT” decides to checkraise this flop to <\/span>700\u00a0<\/b>even though he most likely would re-raise <\/span>AA, JJ, 99, AJ\u00a0<\/b>and maybe even <\/span>A9\u00a0<\/b>suited preflop.\u00a0<\/span>Because I assume a 3bet preflop to happen 100% of the time with those hands with these stakes in a heads up match, I decide to call.<\/span><\/p>\n

The turn is <\/span>3c<\/b>, and now there’s a double flush draw. “4FIAT” bets <\/span>1200 into 2400\u00a0<\/b>(1\/2 of the pot), and I call. Right now there are a lot of spade draws, club draws, open-ended straight draws, and gutshots that “4FIAT” most likely will have in his range here when he bets again.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t think he will have too many single pairs or double pair Aces in his betting range so it’s an easy call.<\/span><\/p>\n

The river is <\/span>8c\u00a0<\/b>and it goes check-check. I win against <\/span>10-5\u00a0<\/b>spades with 10<\/strong> high and a missed flush draw. The 8 of clubs is a card that made me expect 4fiat to continue his already questionable bluffing line.<\/span><\/p>\n

He could represent <\/span>Q10\u00a0<\/b>and <\/span>10-7\u00a0<\/b>for a straight. He could have also represented some check-raised backdoor club draws from the flop that continued on the turn and had a hit.<\/span><\/p>\n

I really don’t like that “4FIAT” gave up on this river card. If he would’ve bet 2\/3 instead, he would have me thinking for very long, even with my Q blocker for <\/span>Q10<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High stakes regular, magician, pageant queen, and CoinPoker ambassador Melika Razavi loves hitting the cash game tables. To give our community some insight into her pot-winning strategies, Melika will walk you through two great hands step-by-step. The Short Deck Showdown that Never Happens I’m playing a 25\/50 Short Deck 3-way when I pick up J7d\u00a0on … High Stakes Hand Analysis with Pro Player Melika Razavi P2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_type":"","_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","editor_notices":[],"_cpsm_do_not_sync":false,"_cpsm_partial_sync":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strategy"],"acf":{"card_image":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinpoker.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}