So, I guess this is more of a brag than anything but advice on how to improve my play is obviously welcome hence why I am posting.
I play hold'em quite often. Like 3 times a week if not more. Mostly bar games however I do occasionally play in the card rooms and can hold my own.
This was a bar game so you get a lot of people who are there to either get drunk or just have fun. You also get a lot of regulars who play the same game every week. It was a tournament. With 15k starting stack and 20 minutes blinds and one rebuy.
Heres my read on the villain. I have never played with hime before. He was a somewhat tight player but not so tight that he was afraid to call a raise with face cards. He however would only come into the pot with atleast one facecard (or atleast that was my best read judging by what I had seen him show) he had no concept of position because he would often limp UTG. He also kept talking to his friends about how he wanted to go to the card room down the street after this game and play "real poker" as if he had to justify to everyone that he was a good player. He complained everytime he lost a hand.
So, heres the hand. Blinds are 2/4 and I'm on the button villain is in BB. I raise 3X (12) with 9/9, SB folds and he re-pops me but only min (24). I call. Flop brings 7
,10
,J
. He leads out and bets another 12. I peg it as a C-bet and call. Turn brings 4
. He checks I check behind. River brings K
. So now there are 3 over card on the board, a possible straight, and a possible flush. Villain bets HUGE. Like 3/4 of his stack. Making the call would just about cripple me. I glance over at him. He re-checkes his hole cards, and than stairs directly at the board not moving at all. Solid as a rock. I tank for a minute. Between the double-checking of his hole cards, staring at the board not the pot, lack of movement or speach. I convinced myself he has multiple symptoms of a bluff and make the call. He says "what you got" I say "you bet" and wait for him to show his cards. He showes an A and he says "good call" in a condescending tone and mucks. I show the 9's. Afterwards he says "that was a brave call with a possible straight and flush" implying I was a donk for making the call. He asks "if I pushed would you still have called" I just shrugged and said "Have you ever read Mike Caro" he looks at me all confused and says "no".