Raise to $825 so that when they shove you can call and see their hand first.

Lol, there's a old guy in our room that always does this, explicitly leaving $1 behind for this reason.

GsighG

Start calling and leaving the $1 behind.

Doesn’t actually work in our room. First to act on river shows no matter what the action if there’s an all in before river

.25/.50 5 handed home game. We normally play 1/2 $200 but others wanted to play deeper stacked without upping the $ amount. Villain made it his mission to make the game play as close to our regular 1/2 game size as possible (he stated this out loud). OTTH

Effective about $90

Villain- Hyper lag/maniac. Playing 80% of hands. Opens every time he has the chance from any position. He bets at any weakness. Game is tiny stakes for him with friends and he wants action.

Hero- viewed by V as pretty standard ABC tight aggressive. I'm a consistent winner with this group of friends. I typically avoid V without the goods as there is easier money elsewhere.

Hero opens from cutoff to $4, H 3bets button Ac7s $12 for value, V calls.

Flop ($25) 2s4s5c. V Check - H Check. I'm never getting folds on this board from V so no reason for me to bloat pot with Ace high gutter.

Turn (25$) 10c. V bet $17. Villain is betting ATC after I check back flop. I think Ace high is good here a lot.

River (60$) 8d. V shoves for my remaining $60.

All the draws bricked except for 67 and A3, and I partially block both. Is it crazy to consider a call? Is this interesting enough for a full thread?

It might be interesting if you could keep the hand history straight or if you were not doing a reverse hand history which isn't allowed. Specifically for the reason you already screwed up.
Good luck.

not a great runnout (you'd like a board pairing river at least), an odd choice of a spot for changing from "I typically avoid V without the goods as there is easier money elsewhere"

Villain can easily be bluffing with better or could've luckboxed into 2 pair. It's a bad call down that'll work some of the time.

If pre is for value why not c-bet for value too?

Whole hand is a mess. Disagree with all streets really.

Also, not sure what you'd expect to get out of a thread. Hand reads like a BBV. That hand and runnout are poor choices to make a stand. So without logic as to why "this is the spot to go for it", what would a thread accomplish? You lose to value, med strength button clicking and a ton of the bluffs.

2/5/10 HJ raises to 35, I call button with 87hh, straddle calls.

Straddle is Lebanese middle age guy - OK ish, never overly aggro but some station tendencies. He has 2500

HJ has 800 and he has just arrived. I have 2400 and my image is nitty but impeccable - the table has just been talking about how I haven’t lost a pot all night.

Flop is Q88 r, HJ bets 80 I call Straddle calls.

Turn is the last 8, Straddle bets 120, HJ calls and I flat

River is a blank, Straddle checks, HJ bets 170.

How much do I bet?

And does anybody raise turn?

My read is that they both have a Q

1200

Raise turn to 525 because Zeebo.

AP make it 650.

River bet looks like Q trying to get looked up light. I'd just go all in. Pretty hard for a Q to fold. If HJ has QQ,KK,AA they are never folding. I'm positive you make more in the long run with AI. Also yes I would raise turn. A K or A on river could kill your action and like I said before any Q or better is never folding.

All in because zeebo theorem. Maximize maximize maximize.

Zeebo Theorem wasn’t a theorem last night. Raised river to 700 and both folded a Q

How do you know both folded a Q

HJ showed me AQ when he folded, Straddle said he had Q10 and I believed him plus the play looks like that

Quads are much better disguised as a pocket pair, not surprised they folded to that size raise.

AP, I Hollywood for 30 seconds and min-raise.

I like 575 because it puts HJ all-in and the Straddler has to be counting the Q's in the deck at this point.

fold pre imo

Why?

when H calls it’s currently HU with HJ 80bb eff without any reads he’ll blast it off easily or that we should battle when flopping TP

But he hit quads tho

I find it -EV to fold when I'm going to hit quads

Last week i folded 76s and would have flopped a SF. Needless to say, I'm never folding SCs again...

Am I turning into a spewtard?

New table, no real reads

5/5 ~$600 eff.

few limps and BTN (MAWG, no other reads) makes it $35. On the larger side of the spectrum, but standard raise w/ limpers for this casino.

Hero has KJo in sb. Fold, defend, 3bet..?

Hero calls and two others in the field call

Flop ~$145/150

89Tr

Hero feels like taking a stab 1st to act into 3 others... thoughts?