Button opens, SB calls. Button and SB are both 20/40 players waiting for their game to start. I've noticed that the button in particular seems to be playing very loosely and aggressively and I feel that he may be somewhat contemptuous of playing at this lower limit. Or perhaps he has accurately assessed that he has tons of fold equity running people over.
I call with A
4
out of BB
Flop is 972r, 1 diamond. SB & and I check, button bets. SB folds, I ?
I feel that my best two options are to semibluff raise with the intention of betting the turn if I'm not 3b (as long as the turn isn't a non-diamond 5, 6, 8, T, J), or to call with the intention of calling down as long as the runout isn't a catastrophe.
The benefits of the semibluff raise are that it would force the villain to fold a lot of the random no pair hands (my perceived image should be tight and passive, so I don't think villain would 3b any of these hands as a bluff) that I feel are a big part of his range. Calling down, on the other hand, costs less and may be more valuable b/c of continued aggression it may induce.
I'm sure the best way to analyze this would be to assign a range to the villain and then estimate how he would respond with parts of his range to my actions, but I'm not really sure of either - I just have the somewhat vague read of "boy this guy seems to be opening a lot and firing"