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Originally Posted by liribvb
1/2 Live
Effective Stacks 500
Hero is on the Button with 5c5s
Straddle Utg, Restraddle UTG+1, CO limps for 8, Hero raises to 55, Button Calls, Villain 3bets to 165. I was thinking that he was thinking i raised to take the dead money, and he knew that i cannot call with a bad hand since BU has called.
Anyway i knew it very well that low pocket pairs do not play good on 3bet pots but still i called since i thought i could outplay him in position.
Bad call pre. Yes you have position, but he is a hyper-aggro and every flop will have overcards. With the double-straddle and your read about what he's likely doing, just shove it in his face if you're going to play. He'll fold some PPs above yours, which is a EV goldmine, and a bunch of hands with two cards above yours. Getting him to fold a near flip with that much dead money is also a goldmine. If he mostly has bigger overpairs, of course, it's suicide, but so is calling.
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BU folds.
Flop : 6h8c9s
Villain Checks, Hero bets 70 to know where i am at.
WTF does that even mean? The pot is bout tree fiddy, and you bet 1/5 pot. What is his reaction to that LOLbet going to tell you about where you are? If you don't know where you are, why are putting money in the pot and why are you re-opening the betting?
AP, the pot is over a grand with your call, which will represent about 26% of it. If his range is all sets, JJ+, and AhKh, you only have 21.7% equity. Even if we add 77,TT, and AhKx, we aren't getting the right price. He needs to have a few combos of spazz to make the flop call good, but even without them it is only a small mistake. The really expensive mistakes were pre and betting flop "to know you are at."
Last edited by Garick; 07-26-2017 at 08:15 AM.
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