In this post, we take a look at some of the action played by the Triton Highrollers in the recent London Short Deck Cash game.
We take an in-depth look at the strategy behind the plays of these top tier Pros in the attempt of learning the best lines to use in our own Short Deck cash game action.
Slow Playing Big Pairs with Aggressive Players Still to Act
In this pot we see Timofey “Trueteller” Kuznetsov limping behind with Q♠ Q♣ this play has a few good points to it, we are not ever getting trapped by Aces or Kings when they limp in early position as we can just play the flop and look to hit a monster with our hand.
Another solid reason to limping behind is that our hand strength will be undervalued, so we have the potential to win bigger pots from weaker holdings that may fold to a large raise.
We also give our aggressive opponents behind the chance to steal with weaker holdings and may even overplay smaller pairs or hands we dominate like JJ or KQ.
The latter plan ends up coming true here, with Tan Xuan choosing to turn his T♦ 9♥ into a steal, raising the action to €33,000 and then Paul Phua choosing to flat call this with 7♥ 7♣ the action is then back to Trueteller again and with the loosest player to his left putting in action and around €100,000 out there to take down with a hand that doesn’t play too well after the flop, he chooses to move all-in for €413,000.
Huge Equity Hand Jack Ten Suited
This is one of the best hands in the game, it plays so well post-flop, you can take this holding against almost any hand in the game and look to win a huge pot with it after the flop…
Here we see that against two solid hands like AQo and A8s, JTs has 44% equity even in a three-way pot.
This is the type of holding the best Pros will take to a flop even when short stacked to try and outplay their opponents on good boards for this holding.
Here Mikita Badziakouski calls the UTG large raise of Flink with his suited connector and flops 41% equity even with 2 blockers in the hands of his opponents with them both having an Ace in their hands.
Typically without blockers in place, an open-ender in short deck hold-em will give you around 50% equity in the pot, which is perfect for applying the pressure and looking to check-raise or just open jam if you have a short stack and then if you even get called you can run it twice or if playing on PokerStars cash out your equity.
The Monster 87 suited
This is a great hand for smacking boards in the face like Dan “Jungleman” Cates does with this pair and open-ender. Quite often everyone will be in the pot with AQ, KQ, QJ etc so if we mix up our play with hands like 87s we will have great equity.
The other good part of playing hands like this is that if we miss a flop we can just fold, we will either hit a very good board for our hand or miss completely.
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