I folded a hand this week that was reminiscent of one I posted last week. The villain in this hand is literally the tightest and most straightforward player I’ve ever encountered. His first, second, and third objectives at the table are simply to win the pot when he believes he has the best hand. Value is a distant fourth. He mostly just leads out for pot when he likes the flop, but he’s capable of trying to check-raise when he flops really big. That’s as far as he’ll take it with slowplaying, though.
I’ve seen him bluff exactly once, and the pride with which he showed makes me pretty confident that there haven’t been other bluffs that went unrevealed. He won’t put money in the pot unless he’s very confident in his hand.
The game is $2/$5, no straddle this week. I open to $15 with KK in MP. The button calls, and the aforementioned Villain calls in the BB. Flop comes AAT, we all check. Turn is a 6, SB checks, BB bets $45, I fold.
Even better than calling for information is checking for information. It’s rarely a good idea to bet if checking will cause your opponent to give you very reliable information about his hand. You should make a habit of checking the flop against very straightforward opponents.
Agreed. I hardly ever check the flop in online MTTs, but I check the flop probably more than 50% of the time when I play live 1/2. They rarely bluff and pay off with so little that you can almost get perfect information by letting them get to the turn. Playing this way has served me well so far.
No raise PF from BB … Def suited Ace or TT here. He deffered to the c-bettor on the Flop but cant resist leading the Turn in case someone is out there with KQ and might spike a Jack on the River!!
The interesting thing about these types of folds is that you could show your opponent the Kings face up and it wouldnt change their playing style one bit!! GL
The funny thing about these KK hands is how players who think of themselves as poker gods such as Jamie Gold can put their entire stack at risk because there is only one hand that can beat them, and well, what are the odds of someone having AA when you’ve been dealt the sexy kings? I remember Gold putting close to half of his buy-in for around 200,000$ against Farha when he knew Farha had the aces, but said he simply could not lay down his hand because it was so good. Even friends of mine who are all recreational fishy players are capable of folding kings when they know they are beat.