Ok, so, a few live hands from this past weekend (so much effort to post live hands lol).
Hero raises UTG w/ A
A
to $12 (~$900 stack),
UTG +1 (aggressive reg my age (~25), known as the best player in the casino)
3bets to $50 ($1500+ stack), everybody else folds,
Hero 4bets to ~$145, UTG +1 calls
So, basically, we've got quite a lot of history. He plays very aggressively as a standard, and I'd say his strategy is pretty far from optimal in a live setting. 3betting a ton to isolate fish/weaker players is fine, but the problem is that this guy seems to have a hard time putting players into different categories. Either that, or he thinks everyone's a fish (myself included), since he's got a ridiculously high 3b%.
I've 4bet him a ton in the past, he's folded 0 times and has always ended up winning.
As a result he prob views me as quite spewy.
Flop ($294): A
6
7
Hero bets $90, UTG +1 calls
Turn ($474): 8
Hero bets $190, UTG +1 tanks for a bit and shoves, Hero snaps
River (~$1804): K
Hero shows AA instantly and UTG +1 just sighs and mucks
Not a very interesting hand, but the biggest one I played on Friday/Saturday.
--
So, the next two hands are me getting bluffed by fish who both ran up huge stacks on Saturday night.
This hand was $1/$3/$6 (straddle), everyone with 250bb+ in front of them.
Someone in EP opens to $18, 3 people call behind, it's folded to me in the BB, I call with 8
5
, the straddle defends.
Flop ($108): A
T
8
Everybody checks
Turn ($108): 5
Hero bets $45, the straddle calls, a bunch of folds, BTN calls
River ($243): 4
Hero bets $90, the straddle folds, BTN raises to $300, Hero snap-folds and BTN shows K
4
So, I think my fold's fine. I wasn't sure whether to go for the x/c or a small bet/fold on the river though. At the time I thought the BTN, a huge fish, would call a small bet with Ax but wouldn't bet it himself. Anyway, once he raised I just thought to myself "lol MW pot, bye" and folded very quickly.
--
Same table, a few hands later. No straddle this time. We're ~300bb eff.
HJ opens to $15, it's folded to the SB who calls, Hero 3bets K
Q
to $60, HJ calls, SB folds
Flop ($124): K
T
7
Hero bets $80, HJ calls
Turn ($284): 8
Hero checks, HJ bets $110, Hero calls
River ($504): 9
Hero checks, HJ bets $230, Hero ends up folding, HJ flips over 5
3
and goes crazy
This is pretty meh. I went for the x/c OTT with the intention of calling off on a huge number of rivers, but the 9 isn't a particularly exciting card. This guy was terrible, but I didn't think he'd turn a hand like 58hh/any weakish hand with even the tiniest bit of SDV into a bluff on this specific river, which is why I ended up folding.
Last edited by AlwaysMars; 03-01-2017 at 06:01 PM.