Hi guys. I used to be a mid to high stakes lhe reg and posted in those forums before online and live lhe died. After a layoff of a few years I decided to finally learn big bet poker. So far I have had good results in the high rake South Florida 2/5 games, but I figured I would post some hands I played today and get some feedback.
This game is 9 handed with a lot of weak tight players who play fit or fold postflop. I have taken to exploiting this trend by bluffing at a very high frequency. These players have sizing tells and several other exploitable leaks. This game is also one of the few games in South FL that has a 200bb rather than 100bb cap. On to the hand:
Villain in this hand is a middle aged, well spoken Israeli. He is self taught but is generally less exploitable than the majority of the opposition. He is loose pf and aggro post. He is not super spewy but is capable of running multi street bluffs when he is deep. Effective stacks in this hand are around $700 and villain barely has me covered.
Villain straddles and its folded to hero UTG with A
Q
. i raise to 30 (could prob raise a bit more as villain will call very loose here). Folded to villain and he calls. Flop: Q
8
5
. I bet 40 and villain raises to 145? How do we proceed here?