My first PAHWM... I think a couple interesting spots came up in this hand, so I'd like everyone's take street by street. Thanks.

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Hero: (Covers)1/3NL on a Saturday night @ around 1am. Hero is playing well, mixing it up in different spots, almost always raising preflop, taking most pots down after a c-bet or a well-timed double barrel. Was up two BI until got overflushed playing suited connectors by a villain not involved in this hand. Q4cc > 98cc. This was about 20 hands ago. No signs of tilt apparent.

Villain: ($450) ~40 yo white guy. He plays rather straight forward. Only 1 hand notable between hero and villain. Hero raised AQ and villain called in position. Flop was K74cc. I c-bet he called. Turn was a K. I double-barreled, he min-raised, I obviously folded. I haven't seen him bluff or get out of line. A different hand when he flopped 2 pair against a different villain, he raised the flop on a coordinated board.

Limper: ($200) Scared money & terrible. Hadn't seen him raise preflop once. ~21 yo. Did a lot of l/c. Just rebought after l/c, c/c, c/c, c/c 2 pair vs better 2 pair. My target in this hand.

The hand:

Hero is in CO with K9

Pre-flop:

(Villain is on button. SB & BB are LP and have been folding to my button & CO raises a ton.)

Limper limps from MP2, Hero?

I have never played 1/3 so i dont know the appropriate preflop sizing but I probally raise to like $18 here.

Yeap, raise it up. It's nice having a straight-forward player to our left. I don't know the dynamics of this 1/3 table but I would be cautious to not over/under size the raise...Just raise it to whatever the standard has been at the table.

Pre seems pretty standard..Let's move to the interesting next step

I expected at least 1 fold pre.

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Hero: (Covers)1/3NL on a Saturday night @ around 1am. Hero is playing well, mixing it up in different spots, almost always raising preflop, taking most pots down after a c-bet or a well-timed double barrel. Was up two BI until got overflushed playing suited connectors by a villain not involved in this hand. Q4cc > 98cc. This was about 20 hands ago. No signs of tilt apparent.

Villain: ($450) ~40 yo white guy. He plays rather straight forward. Only 1 hand notable between hero and villain. Hero raised AQ and villain called in position. Flop was K74cc. I c-bet he called. Turn was a K. I double-barreled, he min-raised, I obviously folded. I haven't seen him bluff or get out of line. A different hand when he flopped 2 pair against a different villain, he raised the flop on a coordinated board.

Limper: ($200) Scared money & terrible. Hadn't seen him raise preflop once. ~21 yo. Did a lot of l/c. Just rebought after l/c, c/c, c/c, c/c 2 pair vs better 2 pair. My target in this hand.

The hand:

Hero is in CO with K9

Pre-flop:

(Villain is on button. SB & BB are LP and have been folding to my button & CO raises a ton.)

Limper limps from MP2, Hero raises to $15 (my standard raise), Villain OTB calls. Blinds fold. Limper calls.

No reads from either. Looked casual. Villain's range is 22+,AT+,sc. Limper could have anything

Flop: ($49) T93

limper checks, hero?

Hero bets 30$

What was your plan preflop for the flop. Raise, Cbet and get folds?

bet 2/3 pot...about $35. I always bet 2/3 to PSB on flop, dpending on texture and player types involved...it's enough to build a pot quickly for when we hit a monster (our hand is well disguised).

We're not looking to fold any better hands here but rather maintain a strong initiative going into turn, with decent equity to boot. And if everyone folds, then nh

The only dynamic that could alter my line would be the Limper's tendencies. He is the target, afterall.
1) Is Limper more apt to overcall when button calls? or would he fold here with crap like gutshots, underpairs, BP?
2) How about if hero check and villain bets? Is Limper more likely to call in this scenario with the weakest part of his range?

I think it's important to consider Limper's tendencies before acting

Yeah, pretty much. If it happens I flop a 9 as top pair, I'm ahead of most 9s. If I flop a flush draw I have a lot of equity to barrel with. I don't love my hand if I flop a K, but I c-bet anyway. I probably c-bet ~80% of the time.


These are good questions and ones I haven't/didn't give much thought to. Limper is on level 1, but scared. I don't think he'd call with gutshots. I'd exploited him a little, but not enough to play back at me. I doubt he'd call with bottom pair. He c/c with 2 pair, so a raise out of him would be ridiculously unexpected. If he called my c-bet I'd probably shut down against him unless I improved because I think Tx would be most of his range. Sure, there'd be some straight draws I'd miss value on, but a greater part of his range would be TP.

Hero: (Covers)1/3NL on a Saturday night @ around 1am. Hero is playing well, mixing it up in different spots, almost always raising preflop, taking most pots down after a c-bet or a well-timed double barrel. Was up two BI until got overflushed playing suited connectors by a villain not involved in this hand. Q4cc > 98cc. This was about 20 hands ago. No signs of tilt apparent.

Villain: ($450) ~40 yo white guy. He plays rather straight forward. Only 1 hand notable between hero and villain. Hero raised AQ and villain called in position. Flop was K74cc. I c-bet he called. Turn was a K. I double-barreled, he min-raised, I obviously folded. I haven't seen him bluff or get out of line. A different hand when he flopped 2 pair against a different villain, he raised the flop on a coordinated board.

Limper: ($200) Scared money & terrible. Hadn't seen him raise preflop once. ~21 yo. Did a lot of l/c. Just rebought after l/c, c/c, c/c, c/c 2 pair vs better 2 pair. My target in this hand.

The hand:

Hero is in CO with K9

Pre-flop:

(Villain is on button. SB & BB are LP and have been folding to my button & CO raises a ton.)

Limper limps from MP2, Hero raises to $15 (my standard raise), Villain OTB calls. Blinds fold. Limper calls.

No reads from either. Looked casual. Villain's range is 22+,AT+,sc. Limper could have anything

Flop: ($49) T93

limper checks, hero c-bets $30, villain thinks maybe 5 seconds before calling, limper folds

Turn: ($109) 5

hero?

60$ villain is straight forward we have no reason to check imo.

My initial inclination is to just bet turn again for 75-80. However, you do have history with villain where you double-barelled and folded to his turn raise, so he could be aware of this dynamic. Which means we should think through our turn plan well: Do we b/c , b/3b, c/c, c/r? ...obv I don't think folding is an option.

The one observation that, I think, is pretty pertinent here is this villain plays pretty straightforward..which means, if he raises you, it is rarely a thin/semibluff raise, which means you may have less FE (against his raising range) than you think you do. Something to consider.

Let's see how we fare against villain's turn raising range if we lead turn:

Villain's turn raising range is (99, TT, 33, 9Ts, 9To, JQ)

We have 26% equity against villain's proposed raising range. If we remove JQ our equity drops to 22%

In conclusion:

1) b/3b....not the best line as I don't think we have decent FE against his raising range
2) c/r.....same as above
3) c/c....I don't want to give up initiative + there's a good chance he will fold KT to a turn bet so checking is the worst option


So I think b/c $80 makes the most sense because if he raises to $200 (even though he has minraised before) we still have more equity than pot odds to call

Yes, I like b/c. Get some money in there before the scare card comes and Vill shuts down.

I check/call on the turn. Let's us get value from his floats by inducing bluffs, and if he checks behind we can make a nice, thin v-bet on the river that he will call with a mid PP. I don't want to bet and have to call a raise.

I agree with this...

Now were shooting for the moon with a flush draw and middle pair, ready to bet/call off a large portion of our stack on a shot at the river.

I'd go for c/c here.