Overbet shoving the river for value
So I am playing around last night and was feeling goofy. So I decided to shove the river when I held the nuts... regardless of pot size or effective stack sizes. Well, unless it was the nuts but the only call would split the pot (like a hand where I have broadway but it only takes one card for them to have it too) -- no need to pay extra rake.
But what could possibly go wrong?
Here are the two hands I remember. I had one other hand similar to this where I bet 5 times the pot (which was only 20c... not a shove but still a big overbet) and they folded. They probably weren't calling anyway. And a couple hands where I had the second or third nuts and just bet pot and they folded. But overall, it was pretty profitable. I didn't hold the nuts a lot on the river (at least where I wasn't already all-in or had less than a pot sized bet left before getting all in)... so there wasn't a whole lot of opportunity. lol
Just wish I had a larger sample size. I think it was SO suspicious looking and so out of character that I got calls from these players hoping to snap off a bluff.
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Merge - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
BTN: $9.36
Hero (SB): $13.78
BB: $12.04
UTG: $13.77
MP: $10.15
CO: $10.00
Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10
Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero has 6:club: 7:spade:
UTG raises to $0.26, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.21, BB calls $0.16
Flop: ($0.78, 3 players) 6:diamond: 7:heart: 8:club:
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks
Turn: ($0.78, 3 players) Q:club:
Hero bets $0.80, BB calls $0.80, fold
River: ($2.38, 2 players) 6:heart:
Hero bets $12.54, BB calls $10.98 and is all-in
Hero shows 6:club: 7:spade: (Full House, Sixes full of Sevens) (PreFlop 35%, Flop 93%, Turn 82%)
BB shows J:diamond: Q:spade: (Two Pair, Queens and Sixes) (PreFlop 65%, Flop 7%, Turn 18%)
Hero wins $21.57
Hero wins $1.56
OK, this isn't the pure nuts but against this opponent, it was likely the best hand. This player was pretty suspicious of me before this. I guess I had an image where I had zero fold equity against him. LOL... his hand was essentially top pair with a medium kicker. But he calls a shove of over 4.6 times the pot on the river with it.
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Merge - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
BTN: $10.00
Hero (SB): $27.84
BB: $12.21
UTG: $16.74
CO: $3.49
Hero posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10
Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero has 5:club: 7:club:
fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.05, BB checks
Flop: ($0.20, 2 players) J:diamond: 2:club: 4:heart:
Hero checks, BB checks
Turn: ($0.20, 2 players) 6:spade:
Hero checks, BB checks
River: ($0.20, 2 players) 8:spade:
Hero bets $27.74 and is all-in, BB calls $12.11 and is all-in
Hero shows 5:club: 7:club: (Straight, Eight High) (PreFlop 50%, Flop 31%, Turn 30%)
BB shows 2:diamond: 8:heart: (Two Pair, Eights and Twos) (PreFlop 50%, Flop 69%, Turn 70%)
Hero wins $0.00
Hero wins $23.20
OK, I almost feel a little bad for this one... almost. ;)
But calling a 60.5xPot shove on the river with two pair... and not even top two pair... is pretty bad. Sure it was super disguised and not at all what I expected (I expected him to have nothing and just fold so my shove was partly just me being goofy). Seriously, I get no respect! :D
Edit: Out of 17 hands this month where I have bet 125% pot or larger on the river... I've been called 5 times. I won 4 of them... lost 1 (a 2.6xPot one) where the guy had K-4... which was the pure nuts against my flopped but smaller full house). Not that he's ever folding flopped trips... but it was still an unfortunate river.
