Playing 7 handed

Villain - Pretty wild player. He plays a lot and seems to take some unconventional lines - (Hero opens AdTc to $15 on BTN. He calls SB - BB calls.
$45 pot
A85 check / check - I check as I think I can get him to spaz later.

Turn K - check / check - Hero goes $40 / Call / Fold
River 5 Villian donks $350!!! - Hero calls - Villain rolls over JQ and MHIG.)

Hero $1700
Villain $750

2-3 hands after this hero picks up AA and goes $15 UTG. I normally go higher but players have been 3betting $15 opens more than $20, so I was hoping that would happen again.

Villain calls - BB calls
$45
J67
Hero goes $30
Villain goes $120
BB folds
Hero???

How big is villain's stack? I can't see folding at this point but it makes a difference in planning hand. If villain is short I'm likely to shove now to charge draws. If his stack is medium-deep then mostly flatting and seeing what turn card is. Hero can sometimes get away cheaply if the turn is bad. If villain raises with draws too often or might raise to see where he is or bluff then sometimes reraise flop when deep.

call

Call

lol of course this thread makes sense coming from evans. I got through the whole thing thinking "what a well played hand, this guy has played poker before" before glancing at the username ;D



Raise, I think this guy has a propensity to go ape **** with draws and this board is wet enough that he must have a piece. He's never folding, he wants to gamble, give him what he wants, an excuse to try and double up.

I think he tried to bluff hand1 due to your underrepped range. He just couldnt believe you'd check TP on the flop, i mean who does that right? If you call hand2 you're basically proclaiming "i has a hand" and that should make him chill with his bluffs. 3betting makes the same statement but if he has a draw he wont be able to let it go so he probably doesnt care what you have.

3b to 320-350ish. I don't really expect him to keep pounding out bluffs into the teeth of a flop call. We could end up in some ugly spots giving him two draws at whatever he has from OOP. Rather than try to induce him to make more mistakes, we should punish this mistake.

We're laying him a good price for his draw given that we're getting it in on turn always, but we redraw vs the flush and if he has like 89, I expect to profit by checking and snapping off his bluff when the flush comes.

i was on call then i read a few responses and then was like, raise is much better.

+1

I like a raise too and we can't really fold and calling is just awkward.

We lose to sets and magic 2 pair hands. He should stack off with Jx, flush draws, and fold every thing else.

For 150bb I can't really fault going broke here to a player like this but do wish I made it $20 pre

You know I actually didnt realize you had the A which should change at least our approach in general. I mean against this guy who seems way out of line I'm 99% going with AA all day every day, but I really dont like having a blocker here since it cuts out half of his jam happy FD's and puts him more into value territory. Board still too wet, but I certainly wouldnt hate a call and evaluate turn, especially if he takes a more standard line and doesnt do anything fishy like bet 5x pot.

I would think he might 3bet a suited ace type hand pre - so his likely holdings are mid pocket pairs 44 - 88 / JT(which was good enough to get $500 in with top pair (J84) vs action player who held J3 in previous hand - forgot to add this) JQ / JK / (89 - which may not raise and only call) 4h5h and 67 and maybe J7

I'm going to say his raising range is capped to

66
77
67
8h9h
4h5h
KhTh and (KhQh this hand may 3bet)
TJ+
J7