POTD #48 GGPoker Turbo Bounty Hand vs Ottomar Ladva

Let's try a new play. What's the worst that could happen?

A theme I keep returning to in POTD is that if you know that there is a play that the solver makes with a hand, but you don’t understand why it makes that play or how it fits into a complete strategy, you are a blind squirrel finding a nut. You’ve made one good decision, but you need to play the rest of the hand and don’t know what you are doing. One of the earliest default strategies I learned in poker, just after I learned the basics like: : “Don’t limp preflop”, “If you have 10bbs you need to play all-in or fold preflop”, and “if you raise preflop, you continuation bet on the flop” was “if your opponent doesn’t c-bet the flop and the turn is an ace, you automatically check to them”. As people toyed around with solvers, they realized that while that is a good piece of advice for a novice, it does not hold across all boards in all situations. Paired boards, boards where the BB has a lot of straights, and boards where flushes are possible are all boards where the BB can put money in the pot, because they have less top pair, but a lot of hands better than one pair of aces. Today’s hand takes place in the Sunday High Roller Bounty Turbo, usually the last tournament, I will reguster on a Sunday. I was likely too fatigued to figure out an unusual play, but I tried one on anyways and it ended up fitting me like an untailored suit.

HH: GGPoker

$2100 GGPoker Sunday High Roller, Blinds 400/800/120 (ante), 7-handed

Preflop: Folds to Ottomar on the button playing roughly 35.5k; he raises to 1600, I call in the BB with J♥️6♥️.

Flop (4,440) 6♣️ 6♠️ 9♥️ Check, check.

Turn (4,440): A♥️ I bet 3,731, Ottomar calls.

River (11,902): 8♦️ I check, Ottomar bets 8,527, I check-raise to put him all-in for 20,464 more, he calls with A♣️T♣️