Saturday night.

H (725£) Playing tight aggressive, ran it up from 200 with not many showdowns.

V1 (260ish) really bad player, in about 7 hours of playing he rebought about 5 times and raised probably 4 or 5 times.

V2 (550 more or less) can't really put on a specific range since he's playing weird all night, capable of being patient and find a good spot tho. He's never rebought for the night.

I'm on the BB (AKo no spades), two limpers, V1 raise to 6, V2 calls, I squeeze to 22 (what do you think, too low? perhaps 27-8?). Both call.

Flop K8xss

I cbet 44, V1 shoves fairly quick for 173, V1 tanks for 30s then asks how much is total and look at my stack, proceeds then to put the right amount for a call in the middle.

Hero?

It's like 456$ in pot and $120 to call? I don't think you can ever fold, the question is if you are up against a range of flush draws/sets (V1), and possibly TPw/fd V2, I think V2 probably shoves sets some of the time and also just flats to keep you in the hand if he puts V1 on a draw and you on TP.(what I would do)


If you do call pot is $566 V2 only has $350 behind so there is likely a fork where blank turns commit you and spades might let you get away. Either way I think shoving is probably the best play, best case scenario is V1 has a set, V2 has a pair and a flush draw so you have about $290 in overlay even if you are crushed by V1.

It's tough because AK in a 700bb pot is generally not in amazing shape. It's very game dependent. I would probably shove here in a 1/2 game 100% unless I really respected V2.

I would squeeze to 40 or 45.

as played, there is already 770 in there once you call. obvious shove is obvious shove.

your numbers are way off.

V1 most likely has KX or a FD, sets are only 7 combos.

V2 might have a set but I think a FD is possible and more likely. I don't know how his weird play manifests itself but I think most 1/2 players shove their sets here. Does he flat a set and leave himself only 270 behind as the pot baloons to 580? I doubt it.

Shove the flop.

Yes, preflop your squeeze is too small. Before your squeeze pot is 6+6+3=9, your call would make it 15 so your raise should be at least 30. In practice they'll call more. Also you're deep with V2 so ideally you want to put around 10% of effective stacks in preflop with a big-pair or big cards type hand to allow an easy to handle SPR postflop. Finally V1 is superbad so ideally you want to isolate him with low SPR.

I'd go even bigger than pfunkalicious to 50-55.

To put it in perspective my isolation raises over limpers are frequently to £20 in my £1/£2 game, I'm nitty and I still get called.